Chris Madden promised payback against Nick Hoffman after the two made contact in the closing laps of the World 100.
It’s unclear exactly what happened between Madden and Hoffman, but the contact between them caused Madden’s car to come up lame and drew the final caution with 11 laps to go. FloRacing never showed a replay as it focused on Jonathan Davenport suffering a right rear flat tire at the same time and bringing his car into the hot pit to make a change. Announcer Dustin Jarrett did state during the broadcast, “Madden and I believe Hoffman may have made contact. I don’t know what happened. I could be wrong, but that will bring out the caution.”
Nevertheless, following the race, Madden put the blame on Hoffman telling FloRacing’s Kevin Kovac, “That last restart we had right there, we just got run over by Nick Hoffman. He’s just a complete idiot every time I race with that guy. He just tore the whole left front off of it. He’s nowhere near making the pass. He just runs you over. He’s not good enough to race by you.”
“We definitely got off there at the end, but we weren’t bad enough to be run over like that,” Madden continued. “The guy’s got no respect for nobody. I mean, that guy’s got one coming, I can tell you that. You can print it, you can mark it, you can do whatever you want. He’s got one coming.”
Madden also made it clear that he was unlikely to win the race even without the contact from Hoffman, “We had a top-five race going, for sure. We wasn’t going to win it.” Madden was running fifth at the time of the caution while Hoffman was running sixth.
Hoffman admitted to hitting him, but blamed Madden for the contact. He explained, “It just got to the point where he held me up kind of a lot of the race and got me in bad spots and stuff, and I was tired of racing with him and I got underneath him. He should see me all the way down the front straightaway. I’m planning on sliding him in one, and he had me pinned against the inside wall. So it was either hit the infield wall or hit him, and was a lot easier to just hit him.”
“That’s what killed my right-front fender,” Hoffman added. “The fender was pretty much junk again at the end from just running into him, but like, I had to go, you know? He held me up a couple times and had me in bad air, and it’s like he races me harder than anybody else I feel like that gets around him, so I was frustrated with him anyway, and it was like, ‘I gotta go.’”
Hoffman went on to get a podium finish in third behind winner Ricky Thornton Jr. and Dale McDowell. Madden finished in 13th.
The next time Madden will have a chance to give payback to Hoffman will seemingly be at The Dirt Track at Charlotte for the World Finals with the World of Outlaws. Madden only has the three nights there and the Dirt Track World Championships with the Lucas Oil Late Model Dirt Series on his schedule. Hoffman will be skipping the Dirt Track World Championship based on his schedule, but he will be at the World Finals.
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