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NASCAR: Alex Bowman slams Austin Dillon; ‘I will shove that silver spoon up his ass’

By Asher Fair

RICHMOND, VIRGINIA - SEPTEMBER 20: Alex Bowman, driver of the #88 Nationwide Chevrolet, stands on the grid during qualifying for the Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series Federated Auto Parts 400 at Richmond Raceway on September 20, 2019 in Richmond, Virginia. (Photo by Jared C. Tilton/Getty Images)
RICHMOND, VIRGINIA - SEPTEMBER 20: Alex Bowman, driver of the #88 Nationwide Chevrolet, stands on the grid during qualifying for the Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series Federated Auto Parts 400 at Richmond Raceway on September 20, 2019 in Richmond, Virginia. (Photo by Jared C. Tilton/Getty Images) /
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Alex Bowman was not happy with the way non-playoff driver Austin Dillon drove him in the NASCAR Cup Series playoff race at Richmond Raceway.

It wouldn’t be a NASCAR Cup Series playoff race without some kind of drama between a championship contender and a non-championship contender.

After the whole Kyle Busch vs. lapped/underfunded cars debacle at Las Vegas Motor Speedway, Hendrick Motorsports’ Alex Bowman found himself in an interesting situation involving Richard Childress Racing’s Austin Dillon.

Bowman secured the first victory of his Cup Series career in late June at Chicagoland Speedway, and he is one of the 16 playoff drivers as a result of it.

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Dillon, meanwhile, finished the regular season in a career-low 23rd place in the championship standings, without a top five finish for the first time in six years and without a playoff berth for the first time in four.

During this past Saturday night’s Federated Auto Parts 400, the second race of the four-round, 10-race playoffs, at Richmond Raceway, Bowman and Dillon were running together toward the middle of the field. The two drivers were involved in nearly a four-wide situation heading into turn one of the four-turn, 0.75-mile (1.207-kilometer) oval in Richmond, Virginia, and Bowman’s #88 Chevrolet made contact with Dillon’s #3 Chevrolet with Dillon to Bowman’s outside.

As a result, Dillon was instructed on the radio: “Hit him back, hit him back, hit him back. Hit him back NOW.”

He obeyed, sending Bowman spinning between turns three and four just seconds later.

“I will shove that silver spoon he’s been fed on his whole life up his ass,” stated an angry Bowman on the radio.

It had to happen sometime.

As many know, Dillon’s grandfather Richard Childress is the owner of his team, and he has driven for the team throughout the entirety of his full-time NASCAR career, beginning in the Truck Series in the 2010 season.

Bowman’s “silver spoon” reference is a reference that fans quite often make when it comes to the 29-year-old Welcome, North Carolina native, who has earned just two victories in 221 career Cup Series starts.

In Dillon’s defense, he stated that he wouldn’t have retaliated had it not been for the demands of his team, and he made clear on the radio that he was not happy about being told to do what he did.

“We ruined our car in a wreck for no reason. Didn’t think we needed to do that,” he said.

Bowman went on to finish the race in 23rd place, one position behind Dillon in 22nd.

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Alex Bowman is set to enter the third and final race of the round of 16 of the 2019 NASCAR Cup Series Playoffs, the Bank of America Roval 400, at the Charlotte Motor Speedway roval in Concord, North Carolina on the outside looking in as it pertains to the round of 12 cut line. He sits in 13th place in the playoff picture, two points behind the final round of 12 transfer spot. This race is set to be broadcast live on NBC beginning at 2:30 p.m. ET this Sunday, September 29.

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