WWT Raceway was the location of the newest conflict between NASCAR O’Reilly Auto Components Collection regulars Corey Day and William Sawalich.Â
They beforehand had run-ins at COTA, Daytona, and simply final weekend at Darlington when Day despatched Sawalich spinning.Â
With just below 50 laps to go within the second spherical of the 2026 Chase, Day pushed up into Sawalich within the battle for fifth. Down the backstretch, Sawalich abruptly turned his Joe Gibbs Racing Toyota throughout the monitor, slamming doorways with Day, whose Hendrick Motorsports Chevrolet then spun off the nostril of Justin Allgaier.
Day slammed the within wall in a race-ending influence for the Chase contender, ending thirty third.
“Inform the f****** fool that I wasn’t the one into him, the 7 [Allgaier] is the one who was pushing me into him.” On Allgaier’s personal radio, he was speaking about being shoved ahead by Taylor Grey.
Later outdoors the infield care heart, Day instructed Motorsport.com’s Matt Weaver: “I acquired down in there beside him. I went to go pull to the underside, however the 7 [Allgaier] had me pushed up into him. I could not actually do something. I had nowhere to go. I do not know. I do not actually need to speak about it a lot, he took care of himself.”
When requested if NASCAR ought to take motion and penalize Sawalich, Day remained tight-lipped. “I do not know, I am not gonna speculate.”
A replay of the incident confirmed that Day initially slid up into Sawalich’s door on his personal, however then hit him once more after contact from behind.
In the course of the media scrum, he was requested by one other outlet about when he spun Sawalich at Darlington and if he acquired the message. “Apparently not. I haven’t got something good to say so I in all probability should not say something in any respect,” stated Day.
As for his championship outlook, Day is now 69 factors out of the championship lead with seven races to go within the 2026 season.
“It is actually powerful,” stated Day about his title hopes. “It will take us profitable perhaps 3 times now to have a shot at this over the following seven races. Simply actually unlucky it ended the way in which it did. I really feel like we had a prime 5 automobile like I stated, and had one other actually good factors day going. Simply sucks.”
Allgaier wasn’t thrilled both, as he completed thirteenth after needing repairs to his right-front fender, thus shedding the championship result in Sheldon Creed by three factors.
As for Sawalich’s aspect of the story, we did not actually get to realize it as he declined any alternative to debate it, saying little or no past how his race went and his outlook for Bristol, regardless of direct questions concerning the incident from TV. He stated nothing to the higher press pool as they adopted him down pit street.
NASCAR takes a really dim view on intentional wrecking, however penalties are usually restricted to right-hooks and moments when the drivers voice their intention. Sawalich will not be a part of the Chase, so he additionally does not have a lot to lose within the championship being being one of the best of the remainder in thirteenth.
One side of this which will assist Sawalich is the truth that Day solely wrecked so closely as a result of Allgaier’s nostril was proper there, and spun to the within due to that contact and never straight due to the preliminary door slam.
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