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NASCAR driver dispute gets racy: ‘He flipped me off. So I started Mike Tyson-ing his head!’

September 25, 2022 | | Print Article

NASCAR may not be known for fights, but the racers are as competitive as any other sport and Saturday in Virginia a multi-car crash led to one driver being pulled away from another as he “started Mike Tyson-ing” another’s head.

Considered the biggest late model stock car race, the ValleyStar Credit Union 300 was only in the first of four heats Saturday afternoon at Martinsville Speedway in Ridgeway, VA when a wreck inspired one racer to violence. As the NASCAR Roots series event was underway, footage of the incident showed Andrew Grady attacking Davey Callihan, presumably still buckled into his seat.

“Tempers have flared,” the announcer can be heard saying after Grady delivered a series of blows at Callihan’s head through the driver’s side opening before kicking the car and getting pulled away.

After lunging at Callihan again, Grady had to be physically carried away to stop him from continuing to pummel the other driver. As he told Racing America’s editor-in-chief Matt Weaver, Grady was on his way to talk to Callihan about the accident when, “He flipped me off!”

“So I started Mike Tyson-ing his head!” he explained matter-of-factly.

Warning: Language

“You get these dumba**es that come in here and run with us and they have no business running a late model much less a lawnmower,” the irate driver went on. “I mean, he wasn’t close, he dive bombed me…and he wrecked Brandon Pierce in the process.”

Callihan had a much different take on the crash when he spoke with Weaver, defending his driving, “You can’t give an inch for the transfer spot when there’s 95 cars and I had to take it.”

“We’re fightin’ for our life out there,” he added, after apologizing “to the 1 [car]” but asserting, “I never flipped anybody off.”

“He just come started punching me inside the race car. So, I understand he’s frustrated but, again, it was for the transfer spot and we were just fightin’ for our life,” Callihan concluded.

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However, Grady was adamant about his view of events and repeated, “I wanted to talk to him and he flipped me off. So I started Mike Tyson-ing his head. I mean, you’re in a big boy sport. When you wreck a man, you can take a grown man a**-whippin’. That’s how I feel.”

Saturday’s beatdown was not the first fight for NASCAR this year, and it wasn’t even the first at Martinsville as Ty Gibbs and Sam Mayer duked it out in April at the Xfinity Series race at the famed short track.

Unlike the late model event, the drivers in April were both out of their vehicles squaring off when shoving led to punching before others interceded to breakup the brawl.

Ultimately, after 15 years of competing, Peyton Sellers went on to win Saturdays race taking home the $32,000 prize and the traditional grandfather clock awarded to the victor.

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