The Best Plumbing 604 Racing Series Presented by Longhorn Chassis issued a statement explaining its disqualification of Cory Hedgecock on Saturday night at I-75 Raceway.
The series posted to Facebook, first, explaining why it disqualified Greg Martin, “Greg Martin was disqualified and suspended from the Best Plumber 604 Racing Series for a minimum of two years after intentionally driving into the #17 car in the infield hot pit area following an on-track incident. His car made contact with both the car and car crew members in the infield.”
The 17 car was piloted by Matt Henderson. Drone footage shows Martin driving into Henderson’s parked car that was being serviced by his crew members.
Drone footage of Greg Martin ramming Matt Henderson at I-75 in the hot pit was shared with me. pic.twitter.com/NNfNtsiqfz
— John Trent Racing (@JFTrentRacing) May 11, 2026
Next, the series explained why it disqualified both Hedgecock, the driver of the #7T, and Henderson, “Immediately following this incident Chad Hedgecock, a crew member located in the infield who was visibly signaling for the #7T and #17 cars, entered a restricted area and engaged the #24 car shutting off the car while the driver was attempting to exit the race track as he was being directed to do so by series officials.”
“Series official, observing from the tower, could visibly see Chad Hedgecock shut off the #24 car and enter into the cockpit of the #24 car preventing the driver from exiting the race track as directed,” the statement continued. “Per track rules and as highlighted by series officials at the mandatory drivers meeting all drivers are responsible for the actions of their crew members so series officials immediately disqualified the #7T and #17 cars from the event.”
“Our series officials made the decisions based on the best information available in real time with a focus on enforcing the rules as they are written and with safety as the top priority,” it concluded.
Hedgecock had previously taken exception to the disqualification posting on Facebook immediately following the event, “I was dq’d bc my dad “hit skinny” when in fact what he did was shut the main power down so he didn’t hurt anyone else as you can see in the videos. I got railroaded.”
“Also either way. Dad was crewing for Matt. This car was owned by someone else along with dad never so much as touched this car. Me and Aarron handled it. Either way. I feel like zero wrong doing from me or my dad,” he concluded.
In another post, Hedgeock criticized both the series and the track for the way it handled the situation. He wrote, “This goes for the times also when I-75 Raceway and Best Plumber 604 Racing Series Presented by Longhorn Chassis series doesn’t have the capacity, nor the knowledge to gain and maintain control in a life threatening situation thus forcing people (my dad) to shut the power off to a competitors car so someone actually doesn’t get killed.”
“But it’s easy to play the dictator when we’re playing in there sand box,” he continued. “ALSO! Clearly see in the video who else was involved in anything related to ‘interfering’ but there teams were not dq’d?? Interesting how it works when it’s heavily weighted towards ONE person. Sour much?”
Hedgecock also responded to this most recent statement. He wrote, “In this order, i was told by Nick Perry, who was being directed by Jon what to do. I was dq’d because dad hit skinny. False.”
“I was being dq’d because he interfered with skinny leaving. Yes he did to stop him from hurting anyone else. Also wasn’t part of my “crew” as it was just me and Aaron. I was being dq’d bc my “crew” was up at skinny’s pits fighting. Again false,” he added.
Next, he shared, “Nick asked me so you’re telling me, your dad hasn’t worked on the car tonight? I said nope, ain’t got a clue where I’m at with anything, he isn’t on my crew. Which is WAS NOT. He was on Matt’s crew because that car belongs to him. He then said either way you are out even though the owner of the racetrack was trying to tell him that dad did nothing wrong and Nick proceeded to say he was the race director and it was his decision. The problem is the story continued to change as it literally still continues to.”
He then reiterated his previous point from his Sunday afternoon post, “And clearly see a ton of crew members engaging also. So why weren’t they dq’d? Let’s use the argument they were protecting skinny? Okay that’s fine. Dad was protecting everyone else? What’s good for the goose is good for Gander. Either way. I could give 2 [craps] less from them stripping away the win, hate it for Aaron as we had them all covered.”
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