NASCAR Disrespectful Moments They Are Hard To Watch

NASCAR is built on respect — respect between drivers, teams, officials, and the fans who pack the grandstands every weekend. But every so often, that respect completely disappears. In this video, we take a deep dive into some of the most disrespectful moments in NASCAR history that were so uncomfortable, shocking, or embarrassing that they’re genuinely hard to watch.

From intentional wrecks that crossed the line, to post-race confrontations that turned physical, these moments didn’t just spark controversy — they left lasting scars on rivalries, careers, and even the sport itself. Whether it was a driver showing blatant disregard for another competitor’s safety, a team radio rant that went viral for all the wrong reasons, or a heated pit road argument caught on live television, these incidents changed how fans saw NASCAR in that moment.

Some of the clips featured here involve drivers losing control of their emotions after years of tension boiled over. Others show split-second decisions made in anger that resulted in massive crashes, injuries, or suspensions. You’ll see moments where sportsmanship was thrown out the window, and the consequences that followed — fines, probation, points penalties, and damaged reputations.

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Here's the next lap. Oh. >> Oh, wow. Look >> like it could have been a little payback. >> I'd say he'll be in the truck after this race is over. >> Hard lick for Mononttoya, too. That's not where you want to be doing this. >> Wow. >> Too fast a racetrack to be doing. >> 190 plus miles an hour. You can really get hurt here. That's not good. In the closing few races of the 2008 season, NASCAR was at Texas Motor Speedway when Juan Pablo Mononttoya got intentionally crashed on the back straightaway by David Gillind. This wreck would actually be a forgotten one as not many people talk about it, but David Gillind actually got parked after this accident, and rightfully so. Making somebody crash on the backstretch in a mile and a half through a right hook is awful. This deserves to be a suspension, but unfortunately NASCAR never handed Gillan the penalty. They just parked him. >> Still side by side for the lead. And into the wall goes Haley. Caution is out. >> That's This is exactly what we talked about earlier. It wasn't necessarily started with him. It started with the car behind him. He got in line. William Byron got in the back of him. Nothing >> nothing up into the five. The five thought he was retaliating. >> Exactly. >> Put him into the wall. >> That trouble. >> Yeah. Hard against the wall. >> Casey Kane. >> Casey. >> Remy involved. >> I don't think Casey may have just slid up against the wall. I see how much damage he has, but his car looked fairly clean on the left side and >> front and back >> as they run at this moment. >> Well, he got run into by Kane, I guess. >> Wow. Casey Kane probably thought he was clear. Didn't know the 40 was up there, but because you saw Casey just went hard to the right. >> Yeah, he was going up the he was going up there to get his angle down into the corner and probably was pretty surprised. >> You're probably wondering why this is on the list. How is this a disrespectful moment? Casey Kane just tries to basically go up towards the wall with David Stie was there and wrecks himself. But what you're about to watch is Casey Kane's interview in the garage area where he was furious with David Sturmmy. He would get out of his car and have some words with Sturmmy and then he would do his post race interview and it got pretty spicy. >> Bill Casey Kane's had a moment to calm down. He's talked to Ray Everingham. What happened on the track? >> Uh just uh just the air by the driver. I mean I don't I was I knew he was there and then I forgot he was there and just run over him. I was looking ahead trying to think where I was going to go next and just screwed the whole deal up. So, I don't know uh what to say other than that. McDonald's touched hard. It was very good. It was so freaking loose the first half of the race and they just kept making it better and better. Um the track was coming to us. I mean, it was a matter of time we were going to be leading that thing and it was going to be fast, but driver air >> and I know a win started to creep into your mind because you guys were making the car better throughout the day. >> Yeah, I mean we were making it better and the track was coming to us. everything we looked at um you know everything we set up for yesterday was uh was happening. Everything was going perfectly and uh screwed up. So it's disappointing. I think we had a shot at a good championship run. >> Then your friend David Trimmy had a few words for you. What did he have to say? I >> I really couldn't understand what he was talking about. He asked me what happened. I told him I screwed up. I ran him over. It was all my fault. And then he goes, "I don't know what your deal is. You I was on the outside of you." D. And I go, "I just told you. I ran you over. It was my fault. Get out of here. Shut that. >> Yeah. Yeah. Well, obviously a lot of frustrations and we have a battle for the lead on the race, right? >> If you weren't a fan in the mid 2000s when NASCAR's cutoff race to make the playoffs/chase was at Richmond, you probably don't remember how bad it was for Jimmy Johnson for the most part. Jimmy Johnson sucked at this race every year. And in 2006, he got into a little confrontation with Jeff Green. He had already been previously wrecked by Carl Edwards, so his day was not going good at all. >> Who's inside 48? Oh, he turned you. >> Just barely caught the nose, guys. I believe you'll be good. >> Leaking water. You can see on the front of that car. He's coming at you now. Turned him back there. They seem to think they know what happened from our chopper. Looks >> like the 48 of Jimmy Johnson is going to turn him around. Kind of look like the 66 slowed down, didn't it? >> Sure did. >> 48. >> I think he slowed down because of the seven. >> Yeah, it's possible. Got out of the gas for the seven. Talked about that earlier. Some stuff happens in front of you here. Everybody starts checking up. >> Hard to stay out of somebody. >> Oh yeah. The seven drifts up the racetrack in front of Jeff Green. Jeff Green just rolled out of the throttle. [Music] >> We got all kinds of great angles on this one. >> Best Buy on board. Cam. [Music] >> Oh boy. Casey Mirs and Michael Walrip get tangled up and couldn't get loose. And the caution will fly and again Casey Mirs uh he he just had win a lap down and Michael Walrip had been to pit road >> loses a right front here. >> Well, he does there after the contact. >> Yeah. No, he just went over the top of Michael and I think Michael thought they were still racing. Well, let's ride along with Michael. [Music] Most people remember the 2008 Richmond race for the Dale Jr. versus Kyle Bush story at the finish where Kyle Busch would accidentally wreck Dard Hart Jr. But it looked very intentional. But what you probably don't remember is earlier on in the race, Casey Mirs would go up into Michael Walrip, wrecking both of them and then Michael Walrip would full throttle Casey Mirs into turn number one, crashing both of them and basically ruining any chance Casey Mirs had with fixing his damage. Walrip let the tempers get the best of him and he actually got parked by NASCAR after this. In 2013 when racing at the end of the Bristol Spring Race, Joey Logano got together with Denny Hamlin and Joey Logano was the victim here. Hamlin spun him around and after the race, Legato was furious. He would go down to Denny Hamlin's garage stall where he was parked. They would have some words, some pushing and shoving and Lego said, "If I ever get back to Hamlin, I will wreck him." And he basically did. The next week, Joe Lagano went intentionally wrecked Denny Hamlet at Auto Club and he actually broke Hamlet's back in the process. >> Um, you know, it's just uh we finished bad. He finished bad. It's uh, you know, it's even. >> What did he say inside the car? >> Uh, he said he was coming for me, so I usually don't see him, so it's usually not a factor. >> All right. Thanks, Denny. >> Bush. There's contact. Here's Bush to the outside to TAKE THE TOP SPOT. KYLE BUSH will just power around the outside. Meanwhile, Hamlin and Logano make contact. HAMLIN'S IN DEFENSE AND KYLE BUSH IS GOING TO WIN AT THE AUTO CLUB SPEEDWAY in an unbelievable three-wide pass as they worked off turn number three. Hamlin into the inside retaining wall. Joey Lagano will finish six. >> Did I intentionally wreck him? No, I did not intentionally do that. Um, if I was going to do that, would I hit him in the left rear tire? Um, I feel like I hit him in the door. I hate to see him got hurt. I feel like the comments um after the race that I made um were taken way out of context. I feel like um you know I just got off a pit road off a heated moment there that caught me way way off gun or way off uh you know where I thought was going to happen and then um you know then a microphone gets shoved in your face and you have you know it was a minute after what happened on pit road. So obviously I'm that mind wasn't straightened and I didn't know Denny was hurt. there's no way for me to know. Um, and you know, I think that got taken way way out of context of um, you know, way I meant anything. >> Thoughts? In the interview there, he's saying it wasn't intentional, but three different instances he had a chance to say I it wasn't intentional. And every all three times he said it was. So, there's no doubt in my mind that it was intentional. Did he intend on me getting hurt? I don't believe so. >> Tony Stewart gets his third win of 2001. He wins the Sharpie 500 in Bristol. [Music] >> Last lap change of position. >> Ricky Rod by Rustin Wallace. And Rusty's obviously not happy in the tactics. >> And Dale Jared spins down in the corner. >> Tempers tempers right to the very end. Well, clearly some hot tempers after the race with you and Ricky Rudd. What happened at the end of the race? >> I just got racing in turn three. I got a little bumper in the behind and lost a position. That's about it. Just a Bristol racing. >> Little retaliation. >> No, I just couldn't get stopped tonight. >> Tell us about the uh Well, some are calling an incident on the last lap with Rusty. >> Well, I'm not really sure. Evidently, Rusty's brakes went out about three or four laps ago. I was able to catch him, got into them a little bit, and I guess when the race is over, his brakes really didn't work. Uh, so they're paid to favor, I guess. Man, after the race, an altercation between Ricky Rudd and Rusty Wallace. Something you really don't expect Rudd to be involved in because he wasn't involved in many confrontations in his NASCAR career. But he had upset Rusty Wallace, and Rusty Wallace had upset him. And after the race, Wallace drove right to the back of Rudd, sending him up the track and destroying the rear of his race car. After the race, Rudd was extremely upset with Wallace at what had happened on the racetrack. And honestly, would you blame him? >> And a crash on the front stretch. Carl Edwards and Cliff Voyer are in it. [Music] >> And Carl looks like has some damage to the right front fender. Yes. >> And this will be very critical to his chances of making the chase. >> Battling for the 12th position. >> Oh, I see Tony Stewart and Clint Boyer get together. And when Ber goes down to dodge, Tony runs right in the side of Carl Edwards pit. But a developing story with a 20 of Tony Stewart. He has been black flagged for rough driving. >> Yeah, here you see him on the outside. He feels like he's getting squeezed up by Ber. You'll see his hand come out the window. He's mad. He turns into Ber. Unfortunately, Ber spins and takes out an innocent Carl Edwards. >> Dave Burns. Well, Tony Stewart is on pit road to serve this penalty. Greg Zipadelli has been having a very very uh heated discussion with the NASCAR official down here. I've never seen Greg Zipadelli as mad as this. He looked immediately back to last week, an incident where no drivers were penalized in loud, New Hampshire uh where his driver was involved with Ryan Newman. And uh but I guys, I have never seen Zip this this mad. Four. They're going to put two tires on the left side while they're here. They took two on the last stop and he'll have four matched fresh tires, but not happy at all down here. >> There's some damage to the back of the 20 of Tony Stewart's car. >> Take a look here on pit road. >> It's coming down pit road. And is that Carl Edwards that did that? >> Carl Edwards was behind him. Another look. [Music] I think Carl's going to be sitting for a lap now. >> You think? >> Mhm. >> We'll find out. Carl could be in timeout when we come back to Pocono. You're watching NASCAR on TNT. In 2006, the year that Tony Stewart probably should have won a championship. This is what hurt him making the chase and ultimately cost him a shot at the championship. He was having an okay day at Pocono, but ultimately he got into it with Clint Boyer and Carl Edwards. Coming off a turn number three, he would get furious with Clint Boyer and shove him down across the track and into Carl Edwards, wrecking both of them. Carl Edwards immediately knew this was not Clint Ber's fault, and it was Tony Stewart's. So, he would be black flagged for aggressive driving after wrecking Tony Stewart on pit road for retaliation. In 2017, Denny Hamlin would basically take Chase Elliott out of a shot to win the race at Martinsville and a championship. Elliot was in contention to win the race and ultimately lock up a spot in the final four, but it would never came to fruition as Hamlin would get to the back bumper as the famous Rick Allen line said, the bumper to the back of the 24 and Hamlin would send the 24 into the wall costing him a shot at the win. >> Elliot has the lead. Denny Hamlin on the attack. you in the 24. >> Pushing you. >> Push. Oh, Elliot spins. >> Oh, he just wrecked us. That's terrible. Yeah, that was pretty much straight up dumping him. >> Yep, he definitely wrecked me. He checked up way early. What happened? What I think happened or am I skewed? >> No, he throw one on your bumper and grab you. >> That's what I figured. Temple. Good to know. Thanks. >> Danny just wrecked the out of chase. Didn't even try to pass him. He just drove right through the back of Two of the most aggressive drivers on the racetrack are Denny Hamlin and Joey Logano. Neither one of them will ever give an inch to another competitor and neither one of them will ever claim they're in the wrong. This has happened time and time again in both drivers careers and both of them came to a clashing point at Martinsville in 2019. Coming off of turn number four at Martinsville, Hamlin would squeeze Logano into the wall after being roughed up a little bit. Logano's tire would be cut down as he would intentionally bring out the caution causing even more controversy. After the race, Logano and Hamlin would walked over to one another and have some words. Joey Logano would try to do this baby slap on Hamlin and then run away. Hamlin already said in an interview he wasn't going to take any of that. So, what does he do? He chases after Joey Logano and then the fight breaks out. Even in their post-race interviews, it was pretty hilarious. Logano wanting an apology and Hamlin making fun of Logano. This was one of the greatest moments in NASCAR 2019. >> That's Joey. It's scared. He said, "Do you want to go?" I said, "Yes, I'm here." But then he runs away. So, >> what was the altercation on track that led to it? >> Uh, I uh I I got close off of turn four. It looks like we got together and and it looks like collateral damage. He He blew a tire, but I mean he would probably say short track racing. >> You going to try and find him at this? >> No, I don't need to find him. Pretty frustrated. I just kind of came off the corner like there wasn't on a car on the outside of him and ruined our day. A shot to win for sure. And um we probably weren't going to beat the 19, but uh we had a top five for sure coming our way if we just were able to survive there. And I don't really know what happened because once he started hitting me, he didn't lift. He just kept finishing me off. I honestly just wanted to see what he's going to say and he really wasn't apologetic at all. So that's more frustrating when someone's like that, isn't it? When someone wrecked you and he's like, "Eh, that's not really the what I was going for there." So >> there it is. >> Oh, >> all right. Explain that one, Jamie. Break that down. >> Well, there's not much to break down. that uh that looked like there must have been something earlier happened and and that was a retaliation for it. I there's really no reason for anyone to to do what Ben Rhodess has done to to Christian Ekus there to to right rear someone on the on the straightaway is is really not acceptable. >> I don't think you guys realize how hard I just about knocked the wall down. I was going straight at it with the wheel turned and it got away from me. That's unfreaking believable. He runs me straight into the ball every corner. That's what happens. You can't run somebody straight to the left. >> More radio here. >> I'm gonna enjoy this fight after the race. >> It's unbelievable. I have my wheels turned all the way to the freaking 7:00 position out of the throttle trying not to cuz he runs me out of the groove. And then when I get back on the straightaway, snaps, takes him out. What he think's going to happen when he runs. >> This is Ben Rhodess. He's a NASCAR truck series champion for crying out loud. These things you do on the racetrack reflect your character. And I still can't believe that Ben Rhodess wasn't suspended at Texas for this incident. He intentionally right hooked Christian Echis hard into the outside wall at Texas in a very dangerous situation. Thankfully, he was okay after this, but I would be furious if I was Ekis and NASCAR. >> It's like a left front tire is going down on Chase Elliot. Does that every tries to run into you to get a flat tire? Nice four here. 22 points to get as we say. >> Nine's coming on tires. He's mad. Give him here inside. >> Chase Elliot is being a roadb block for Kevin Harvick. >> Nine's going to block his ass off of the five. He'll come inside. There he is. Even still there. All clear. Crossing over. Back in line. Bumper. >> Kevin Harvick roughed him up a little bit, but Larson survives. It's >> your run off. Clear by two. Coming back to the checker. She will not get to you. >> Let's take a look. You're clear. >> Wow. There was the contact. >> Sent him into the wall. Could that be the payback for Bristol a couple weeks ago? Reic not even close to the back of the 19. The 11 clears him. And now here comes Denny Hamlin TO THE INSIDE FOR THE LEAD through one. >> HE RUNS THE FIVE WIDE ALMOST INTO THE FENCE >> UP INTO THE WALL WITH THE FIVE. AND NOW THE momentum behind them with the 19 OF MARK TREX JR. LARSON LOSES THE LEAD. HAMLET'S OUT FRONT. >> OH, we got a crash behind him into the tunnel turn. A big wreck. Hard hard lick. >> That's Haley in the 31. And >> this is right after coming to the yellow. >> Yeah, this is after the yellow. Look at that. Wow. He is angry. So, we'd like to see the restart to where we can watch Denny. He in the middle of the corner gets position on the five, then just thrives up really and drives up the racetrack. Carrying the five up the racetrack. We saw this before, but it was Ross Jastain on the outside last year. Again, the five hard into the wall. Literally almost the same exact scenario. He comes down the racetrack trying to slow Denny down. Yeah, you don't mind getting run up the racetrack a little bit, but when you get run up the racetrack this much to where now there's contact and it pushes you out of the groove, you have no choice but to lift out of the throttle and you're still going to hit the wall. So, yeah, I don't blame him. I'd be mad, too. >> We saw it out of Ross Chastain or with Ross Chastain last year. Hamlin did the same move and now you see the frustration from Larson >> move with Kyle Larson and running him up on that restart. Denny, did he have a right to be mad at you? >> Well, both both guys wrecked themselves. Uh there was the lane. Uh he he missed the corner first and evidently he didn't have his right side tires clean and when he gassed up, he just kept going again. Um you know, you have an you have an option in those positions to, you know, to either hold it wide open and hit the fence or, you know, lift and and race it out. But, uh you know, those are choices they made. I didn't hit either one of them. Didn't touch. Denny Hamlin claims he did not hit Kyle Larson at Pocono in 2023 to pick up his 50th win in the NASCAR Cup Series, but he kind of did. Coming off of turn number one on the restart with just a handful of laps to go, he wanted to give Larson a choice to lift or keep going and hit the wall. And Larson kept going and hit the wall. This would damage Kyle Larson's car and send him back a few positions and cost him a shot at the win. Denny Hamlin, on the other hand, would retain the lead and retain it over the next restart and win the race. Needless to say, Kyle Larson was furious as he felt like he gave Denny Hamlin a lot of room on the bottom of the racetrack and Hamlin used him up and drove him all the way up against the wall and kept going. >> Big crash on the backstretch and right up in front of more traffic. >> Ryan Newman's in it. >> David Reagan is in it. Fire and Chris Busher was in it as well. >> Chris Busher involved the 83 of Dylan Lumpton up on top of the 31. the fire underneath the hood of the 23 >> and the 14 of Tony Stewart. >> We've seen this several times of cars haven't, you know, getting into turn one and the 14 just kept coming down on the 31 on the back straight away. It wasn't happy maybe with what went on in turn one and >> big impact by the 23. And you see right there, Chris Busher kind of bounces between them. Luckily gets through, but that was a really big impact for the 23 of David Reagan. It was great to see him climb out. >> Want to talk about this race for a quick moment. Ryan Newman a little bit frustrated. What's your response to that and what happened from your perspective? >> I expect him to be frustrated. I mean, he's this was an important race and uh you know, he had 26 weeks to get himself in the chase and you know, he was in a pressure situation going into here and I had nothing to do with the first 25 weeks that put him in a pressure situation. But, you know, you can I'm all right with getting run into once or twice, but you know, third time is a charm and that's when I'd had enough of it. and I run him down the backstretch and I wrecked myself doing it. So, it wasn't like I wrecked him and didn't wreck myself. I took myself out of it by doing that. But, you know, I think for 370 some odd laps of getting run into by different guys, I was held my cool pretty good. So, uh he doesn't seem to think so, but uh I'm not really sure that I'm going to lose a lot of sleep over his opinion tonight. Ryan Newman and Tony Stewart were once teammates. Tony Stewart once owned Ryan Newman and let him drive for his race team. A couple years after they separated, they got into it at Richmond when Tony Stewart and Ryan Newman flat out were upset with each other and their post-race interviews talking about one another was extremely disrespectful. This is one of the most underrated, ruthless interviews I've ever heard. The comments that were made by Ryan Newman about Tony Stewart were extremely fierce. In my opinion, this wasn't just a battle on the track. It was a battle off the track that Newman was probably still upset that he didn't race for Tony Stewart. The 2012 NASCAR season was by far one of the most underrated seasons I've ever watched. It had a great championship battle between Brad Kazowski and Jimmy Johnson. But do you know who was also in the mix for that championship that year? Clint Boyer. Yes, Clint Boyer driving for Michael Walrip Racing. Earlier in the season, he would accidentally overdrive turn number one at Martinsville, taking out Jeff Gordon and Jimmy Johnson. Jeff Gordon had had runins with Ber in the past, and by the end of the season, he had had enough. Clint Boyer, who was on the verge of having a shot at the championship the next week at Homestead, was taken out by Gordon late in the race because he ran into Gordon just a couple laps prior. Gordon was so upset he admitted to NASCAR. He wrecked him on purpose. That's how furious Jeff Gordon was at Ber. Ultimately, no fives or suspensions will be handed out to Gordon and Ber would lose a shot at the championship. All because Gordon lost his temper. He's >> turning Clint Ber into the wall collecting Joey Logano. Caution flag is out. >> Real act of a champion. >> Elbow slides in. Did the leader take the white flag before the caution came out? Years worth of frustration. Oh, >> conflict. The crews are in it. Somewhere in the middle of that is Jeff Gordon. [Music] I'm sure Clint Boyer wants his opportunity at this. Can't really blame him. >> That's stupid. [Applause] racing for fifth position. Then this the payback >> as Brad Keslowski, the championship leader, right in front of him, >> finds enough room to get by. having a problem in the race. A lot of ground. >> After dominating the 2001 season, heading into the final race of the season at Lou in New Hampshire, Jeff Gordon wanted to just finish out the season with the win. But Robbie Gordon stood in his way. They ended up making contact, leaving Jeff Gordon extremely upset postrace. Robbie Gordon would ultimately take home the win that day, leaving a bad taste in Jeff Gordon's mouth, just like he said in his post-race interview. >> Everybody thought you couldn't make me mad. You can make me mad. Take >> either I can or everybody. Um, you know, anybody really, but that 31 certainly did today. He should be embarrassed right now to win that race. Uh, it was going to be a heck of a battle. I mean, it was between me and him anyway, you know, and uh I just wish it would have been done fair and square instead just knocking a guy out of the way. And we had some lap traffic to go through and you got to be patient. I don't care if there's 15 laps to go, you got to you got to know how to be patient. And uh, you know, it just didn't happen that way. I was mad. Uh, you know, I mean, at the time, hey, I I understand why guys do that kind of stuff. Uh, I just wish I would have taken his uh, you know, tire down or something. At least though, he wouldn't have won the race. I just didn't do a very good job of it. But, you know, it's it's not what you want to do. It's not sportsman not like I know, but hey, man, I didn't think it sportsman like what he did to me and they didn't penalize him. So, >> on Easter of 2023, Ryan Priest and Kyle Larson exchanged bumpers and doors as they were extremely upset with one another. It started off when Kyle Larson tried to clear himself off of the turn, walling Ryan Priest. Later, Ryan Priest returned the favor while spinning Larson down the backstretch hard into turn number three. >> And they crashed four times down the straightaway. Larson and Priest. And it's Larson in the wall. The 11th caution of the night, the five and the 41. [Music] If you've enjoyed this video, please hit the like and subscribe button down below. Also, if you've liked this video, I'm pretty sure these videos will catch your eye. Also,