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At 200 miles an hour racing inches away from your competitors, things on the race track can get heated. Drivers are stressed with a lot on the line, and sometimes, they snap at each other and their own teams. It happens — although to some drivers more than others.
No one is immune to this, and drivers typically admit they say or yell things over their radios out of anger or frustration that they don't really mean.
But some NASCAR fans have recently pointed out that Austin Dillon has been attacking his team and crew members more than usual and with an entitled tone.
The most recent example that had fans talking was after FOX Sports published its weekly mashup of radio audio. NASCAR was racing Sunday at ISM Raceway near Phoenix, and Dillon — the No. 3 Chevrolet driver and the 2018 Daytona 500 winner — snapped at his crew chief, Danny Stockman while criticizing the car.
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Stockman: Is your car taking off like (expletive) or what?
Dillon: You put me back (expletive) two rows! It ain't nothing to do with the (expletive) car!
Stockman: Hey, why don't you just get it together here, bud? I'm just asking a question.
Dillon: Yeah, it takes off like (expletive).
After this race — like others this season — NASCAR fans slammed Dillon for the way he's talking to his team on the radio.
Again, it's not that Dillon's criticism of the car or how it was handling is unique because drivers do that all the time, especially when things aren't going their way on the track. But Dillon's tone and approach to the team's issues — plus the pattern of it — is what has fans questioning the 28-year-old driver and his talent as he races for his grandfather and NASCAR legend Richard Childress.
Here's what Dillon said two weekends ago at Las Vegas Motor Speedway:
Andy Houston, spotter: Austin, if you get to him, just do what you can to try to keep some air on the nose.
Dillon: No (expletive)!
Houston: OK, do what you want.
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Seems like an annoyed and passive aggressive response to Dillon snapping about the car. Here's what fans had to say about that. The churchunder the milky way midi.
And during the second race of the season at Atlanta Motor Speedway:
Dillon: It's absolutely hilarious that we thought that we can trim our car out to come to the most abrasive track on the schedule. It's just stupid.
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While NASCAR fans hopefully understand that drivers' tempers and frustration can be unnecessarily directed at their teams sometimes, they're not wrong to take issue with how Dillon speaks to his team. Even if he apologizes for it afterward, he surely has to realize that fans can only eavesdrop on the radio audio, and it's not a good look.
NASCAR's next race and the final one of its West Coast swing is Sunday's Auto Club 400 at Auto Club Speedway in California.
