Brandon Overton provided more comments about why he was so mad at Bobby Pierce that he threw his helmet at him and confronted him in the hot pit after he hit the turn 1 wall hard after cutting down a right front tire.
On Saturday night following a restart with 23 laps left in the 75-lap feature, Overton and Pierce started side by side behind only leader Jonathan Davenport. Pierce attempted to take the second spot and pin Overton down on the bottom. As they went through turns 3 and 4, Overton made contact with Pierce’s car and Hudson O’Neal was able to get by both of them. As Overton went into turn 1, it appeared as if something broke and he hit the wall hard in turn 1. He would get hit by Brandon Sheppard and Cody Overton. Trey Mills would seemingly avoid Overton, but t-boned his brother Cody as he took evasive action to try and avoid his brother.
After he exited his car, Overton threw his helmet at Bobby Pierce making contact with Pierce’s door. He then collected his helmet and confronted Pierce in the hot pit as he was getting his tire changed. Overton learned into Pierce’s window and gave him a piece of his mind. He can be heard saying, “As soon as I [inaudible] I’m going to f*** you up. Don’t you f***ing [inaudible].” He also smacked Pierce on the head.
CONTROVERSY at @SenoiaR between #FloNight point leader Bobby Pierce and Brandon Overton after contact.
(What would you rate that helmet toss?) 😮🫢 pic.twitter.com/jZU8rPhYjr
— FloRacing (@FloRacing) November 16, 2025
On Facebook following the race, Overton explained, “Wasn’t the smoothest operation tonight. Appreciate 32 owning his mistake post race, and I always expect him to race me hard, but you don’t have to make contact chopping me off and cut down the right front. Went into 1 after contact and a flat right fenced us. Junked the car.”
“Appreciate all the guys busting ass to put this car back together and sorry to all the folks that got collected in the mess,” he concluded.
He provided more details in an interview with DirtonDirt.com’s Kyle McFadden, “We had a restart, Bobby pulls up besides me — I choose the bottom, Bobby chooses the top. When he pulled up beside me, the first thing that goes through my head is, ‘Damn he’s racing for a championship. I really don’t need to drive in there and try to slide him because he’s probably not gonna life ’cause he needs to do to good.’ You know what I mean. I didn’t want to get in a bad situation.”
“I leave him the whole top going through one and two,” he continued. “Like, I didn’t slide him. That’s how I got into second — I slid somebody. But me trying to be respectful knowing he has $75,000 champion on the line. ‘Do nothing stupid, let them race it out.’ Then we get to three and he hands a left.”
“I get too close to him, I get behind him, I slide into him. Obviously it punctures my right-front tire, so whatever. The cutoff, the chopoff, whatever, I was just kind of like, ‘What the hell? Why would you do that?’ But what the hell, everyone drives like that. Then by the time I get to the flagstand, I get to one and my right-front blows out and I know the [expletive] outta the wall. That’s why I was mad.”
He reiterated, “He goes from the pit gate entrance, as hard left as he can. That got me in his bad air that got me about spun out. That got me rammed into his left-rear that flattened his left-rear and flattened my right front. He put me and him in a [expletive] situation. At the end of the day, that’s all it boils down to. If we would’ve kept on going and run fourth or fifth, I wouldn’t have even said anything to him. I’m just mad I literally totaled out a car that had three races on it.”
While he threatened payback in the heat of the moment, Overton walked that back telling McFadden, “Am I gonna wreck him? Probably not. Who the hell have I ever wrecked as long as I’ve been racing?”
“As I said, I got it out of my system. I’m fine. We’re gonna go and have a good time at The Dome and race. I’m sure Bobby will run into somebody at The Dome and they’ll be wanting to whip their ass,” Overton added.
Finally, he concluded, “It all boils down to a frustrating year. You’re 20 laps from ending on a good note. I was gonna run second or third, right? End on a good note. Instead we end with the engine sitting in the cockpit. Like, that’s dumb. … It is what it is. Like I said, I got all my anger out. And we’ll move on.”
Overton ended up finishing in 16th after the wreck while Pierce went on to finish in 6th and win the FloRacing Night in America series. Speaking with FloRacing’s Earl Hoon Jr., Pierce commented on the racing between him and Overton, “I’ll have to watch replay, but I bet I just pry didn’t leave Brandon enough room down there. And I think he pry thought I was going to the top too so he pry wasn’t expecting me to run that bottom-middle. I was trying to leave him a lane. I told him there, ‘Man, all I needed to do was run top 7 and I wasn’t trying to wreck you into the wall.’ But I know he’s mad and he has every right to be so if so I’m going to take the blame on that. If he thinks he owes me one, he owes me one. Hopefully, we can go to the next one, the next time I race him and we’ll be all good.”
“Had to make some dicey moves coming up through the field,” he continued. “I slid Winger three or four times. Not the cleanest slider. And he let me know one time. So that’s just kind of the things I had to do some of the times coming through the field. Most of my passes were pretty good.”
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