Kenny Wallace calls Kyle Larson the Babe Ruth of NASCAR

Kyle Larson dominated the race till he was forced to retire.

Kenny Wallace calls Kyle Larson the Babe Ruth of NASCAR

Kenny Wallace, Babe Ruth and Kyle Larson (Images Via IMAGO)

Former NASCAR driver and brother of ex-Cup champion Rusty Wallace, Kenny Wallace, has likened the dominant racing performance of Kyle Larson before DNFing at Homestead Miami to Babe Ruth. Wallace was alluding to the fact that Larson, ahead of the race, had claimed he wanted to win the race with absolute dominance and nearly did it.

Ruth is one of the greatest, if not the greatest, Baseball players the world has ever had. He dominated the sport for 12 years of his 22-year career like none other, and his exploits with the New York Yankees made him an American Sports icon. He can put the money where his mouth is and deliver what he promised on the field.

While talking about Larson’s race till he was forced to retire, Kenny Wallace pointed out that Larson’s dominance is similar to the Ruth era in Baseball. He explained who Bobo Ruth was, calling someone rivals couldn’t make fun of as he had the skills to punish them badly. Wallace felt the 2021 Cup champion’s dominant run until the unfortunate incident was similar.

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I think the big story is obviously Kyle Larson complete domination. He called his shot. He was like Babe Ruth…For all you kids, Babe Ruth one of the greatest baseball players of all time. Babe would get up, and he’d go, ‘This is going over the wall.’ And by God, it did. Couldn’t make fun of Babe Ruth because he hit them homeruns. Kyle Larson said, ‘Well, I’m gonna dominate. I’m going to dominate.’ He was dominating.

Kenny Wallace said via his YouTube channel.

What went wrong for Kyle Larson at Homestead Miami?

Kyle Larson was dominating the day at Miami, winning stage one and leading a race top 94 laps. But at the end of the day, he was credited a P34 finish. On 213 of the race, Larson was fighting for the lead with Ryan Blaney, who finished P2. The duo entered the pit lane on the lap, determined to exit as the leader.

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Kyle Larson (Credits: @HendrickCars/ Twitter)

But, it went south after his hyper-aggressive approach while entering the pit line saw him crash into the sand barriers in the safety wall just ahead of the yellow pit-entry line. The No:5 car went a little too fast, and once the No:12 Ford slowed down, it had to take evasive action. It resulted in a collision that significantly damaged the car, ending his day.

I was trying to stay off him as I knew I was going to probably hit him. I just locked the brakes up; I locked the fronts up and slid to the right and clipped the right side of his rear bumper, and that kind of shot me even more right into the barrels.

Kyle Larson explained the incident after the race.

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