“Just got loose,” Ryan Preece blatantly denies claims of knocking Kyle Larson out at Bristol

Ryan Preece has defended hismelf for causing a collision with Kyle Busch in Bristol.

“Just got loose,” Ryan Preece blatantly denies claims of knocking Kyle Larson out at Bristol

Ryan Preece and Kyle Larson

Ryan Preece has shed light on the incident between him and Kyle Larson at the Bristol Dirt race. The two were having their tussles throughout the event, and one just proved too much for both drivers. On lap 174 of the 250-lap race, Preece pushed the number 5 car into the wall, and it was suspected that the incident came about because of extreme frustration on part of Preece.

Ryan Preece, after the race, came under the microscope in order to stop the spread of any unnecessary rumors, he said, “Just trying to run the top, it was real slick. Just got loose and we both ended up in the fence.” The American has deemed the incident as a pure racing one, as according to him, he was trying to go on a higher line on lap 174, and in the process of doing so, his car’s rear end just got loose, and he ended up knocking the number 5 car.

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While Preece has done his absolute best in trying to cover up what happened, the seeds of a fatal tussle between Ryan Preece and Kyle Larson at the Bristol Dirt race were starting to appear from the very first stage of the dirt race. During stage 1, Kyle blocked Ryan coming into Turn 1 and two had a slight touch. Moreover, when the race was under caution, the latter pulled up close to Busch and appeared to flick the middle finger at him.

The whole incident was not something Preece had envisioned ahead of the race, and he was pretty frustrated by it. While communicating with his crew chief, he indicated he was done taking hits from the number 5 car at Bristol. Taking everything into account, it seems what happened at the event was brought about because of pure frustration.

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Kyle Larson’s take on his tussle with Ryan Preece

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Kyle Larson

While Ryan Preece was not pleased with how he fared at the Bristol Dirt race, Kyle Larson, on other hand, was also as frustrated with the race as Preece. Moreover, while shedding light on his outing after the race, he said, “It’d been probably an hour and a half, I would have to guess, since (the first incident), so I figured we could just be grown-ups and get the f— over it, but I guess not.”

“I mean, who is to say he intentionally wrecked me? Only he knows.” Looking at their comments on Larson, it is pretty evident that, just like Preece, he is also not happy with his outing at the Bristol Dirt race. However, he has indirectly made it known that what happened on lap 174, could have been avoided had the two drivers acted like grown-ups.

Incidents that are stemmed from absolute frustration during races are becoming extremely common in today’s modern racing. So far in the campaign, many incidents have taken place that could have been avoided. Considering everything, do you think the role makers need to have a serious look at their rule book and come up with something new in order to put a stop to unnecessary incidents during races?

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