Security was called to separate Ricky Thornton Jr. and members of Chris Madden’s team following Madden’s win at the World Finals at The Dirt Track at Charlotte on Saturday night.

Chris Madden via DirtVision.com

Madden took home the win after passing Thornton on the third lap of the 50 lap feature. Thornton seemingly did not take too kindly to how Madden passed him and immediately gave him a shot to the left rear quarter panel.

The animosity did not stop there. At lap 32, during a long green flag run, Thornton was able to track Madden down and again gave him a shot in the left rear quarter panel.

Following the race, Thornton, who finished second, was clearly not happy with Madden. When asked by Hannah Newhouse what he needed to win, Thornton said, “I guess guys quit throwing yellows or whatever the hell they were doing around the top. I don’t know if they were blowing tires or what, but I feel like every time we get a little bit of a run we get a yellow. Of course, right when we get to traffic.”

He then appeared to direct his ire towards Madden, “I don’t know, second left side he needs. I guess he needs them more than I do. So, hopefully he goes to Senoia next week, we’ll take care of it.”

Ricky Thornton Jr. via DirtVision.com

The two had a run in during Friday night’s feature as well. Coming out of Turn 4, Thornton found himself at the top of a three-wide with Madden in the middle above Ethan Dotson. Madden got into Thornton’s door and had him sideways.Thornton did an amazing job of saving the car and only lost a single position to Dotson.

Meanwhile, Madden had to check up and then played bumper cars off Jonathan Davenport’s door.

A post race photo from Saturday night shared by Tyler Erb showed both Thornton and Madden appearing to have words with each other as third place finisher Mike Marlar stood by.

Terbo Tyler Erb on Facebook

DirtonDirt.com’s Kevin Kovac reported that following the finish, “the pair exchanged words in victory lane and later in the pits they were separated by security.”

A source told Stock Car Report that a crew member for Madden informed Thornton that he didn’t belong there and then shoved him. Security was then called to intervene.

What do you make of security getting called? What do you expect to happen at Senoia?

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