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SLINGER – Two incidents, four viewpoints, four contenders eliminated.
One near fight, countless angry words.
Other than Casey Johnson’s feel-good victory July 14, the chaos of the final few laps and vitriol that followed will be the lasting memory of the 47th Slinger Nationals.
Ty Majeski, who tangled with Gabe Sommers in their prolonged battle for the lead, conceded he was holding up Sommers with a car that wasn’t as fast as it had been earlier when he was leading 99 of the 200 laps.
They spun off Turn 4 a lap after Sommers got to Majeski's bumper and subsequently passed, with the nudge in all likelihood returned. At one point it appeared Sommers was setting up to ram Majeksi’s car on the front stretch under the yellow flag.
“I wasn’t good enough when I needed to be, and he scooted me up off 4, which whatever,” Majeski told the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. “And he slid up off of 2 and then [Carson Brown] got under him and kind of slid him up in 3 and 4 and I went back under Gabe and he was trying to cross over [Andrew] Morrissey and I was there. That was my perspective.”
Sommers’ assessment was quite different.
“Just racing with a guy that, if he can’t win, nobody can win and he’s gotta junk you,” Sommers said in an interview with The Repave, an online news outlet covering pavement short track racing.
Sommers told The Repave he and his crew went after Majeski in the pits looking for a fight.
On that point, they agreed.
Majeski said he was alone in his pit when he saw Sommers and others coming his way, so he locked himself in his trailer until the dust settled and texted Sommers offering to talk one-on-one.
The Sommers-Majeski mess opened the door for a showdown between the Wisconsin veteran Morrissey and 18-year-old Richard Childress Racing NASCAR development driver Carson Brown.
Their first try at a restart was waved off, and then the second was contentious. They rubbed coming to the flag, Morrissey got into the wall and then they got into it again on the back stretch.
“We worked our way up to the front, ended up being the control car [for the restart] and … I got my right front cleaned off down the back,” Brown told the Journal Sentinel and The Racing Round Up Show. He said he knew Morrissey jumped the first restart.
“I feel like I did my job tonight and got the car where I needed to be, and then just got my right front cleaned off under caution multiple times, and ended up getting beat down the front stretch, and then ended up being the control car after he drove over top of me, when another caution came out, so I'm not quite sure what happened there.”
Video shows Morrissey got into the wall coming to the green, although it appeared he may have broke traction regardless of whether there was contact. On an earlier restart Brown drove into Morrissey’s door as well, Morrissey said.
Then the aftermath – they got together on the back stretch, with Morrissey climbing up the left side of Brown’s car – was a combination of more of the same behavior and racing for a big win, according to Morrissey.
“Coming out of 2, I tried crossing him back over, and he just chopped down and I ran over his left rear tire.” Morrissey told FloRacing, the streaming service that carried the race.
“I mean, it gets aggressive, but that was just a little too much. If I was on the bottom I would have raced the guy hard, but you gotta kind of get your nose ahead of the guy you’re racing with before you can run him up like that.”
Morrissey was done for the night due to the damage. Brown continued, although his car showed wear and tear for the incident. He restarted on the front row – drawing some question of whether he should have been put to the rear for being a part of the caution – but was swallowed up by Johnson and ended up third. Ironically, Johnson thanked Brown for how clean they raced.
In addressing his finish, Brown summed up the crazy sequence in general.
“Hopefully, the fans had a good time tonight,” he said, “because this was definitely an expensive race for us.”
This article originally appeared on Milwaukee Journal Sentinel: Closer look at the late-race antics and anger at the 47th Slinger Nationals
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One near fight, countless angry words.
Other than Casey Johnson’s feel-good victory July 14, the chaos of the final few laps and vitriol that followed will be the lasting memory of the 47th Slinger Nationals.
Ty Majeski, who tangled with Gabe Sommers in their prolonged battle for the lead, conceded he was holding up Sommers with a car that wasn’t as fast as it had been earlier when he was leading 99 of the 200 laps.
They spun off Turn 4 a lap after Sommers got to Majeski's bumper and subsequently passed, with the nudge in all likelihood returned. At one point it appeared Sommers was setting up to ram Majeksi’s car on the front stretch under the yellow flag.
“I wasn’t good enough when I needed to be, and he scooted me up off 4, which whatever,” Majeski told the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. “And he slid up off of 2 and then [Carson Brown] got under him and kind of slid him up in 3 and 4 and I went back under Gabe and he was trying to cross over [Andrew] Morrissey and I was there. That was my perspective.”
Sommers’ assessment was quite different.
“Just racing with a guy that, if he can’t win, nobody can win and he’s gotta junk you,” Sommers said in an interview with The Repave, an online news outlet covering pavement short track racing.
Sommers told The Repave he and his crew went after Majeski in the pits looking for a fight.
On that point, they agreed.
Majeski said he was alone in his pit when he saw Sommers and others coming his way, so he locked himself in his trailer until the dust settled and texted Sommers offering to talk one-on-one.
The Sommers-Majeski mess opened the door for a showdown between the Wisconsin veteran Morrissey and 18-year-old Richard Childress Racing NASCAR development driver Carson Brown.
Their first try at a restart was waved off, and then the second was contentious. They rubbed coming to the flag, Morrissey got into the wall and then they got into it again on the back stretch.
“We worked our way up to the front, ended up being the control car [for the restart] and … I got my right front cleaned off down the back,” Brown told the Journal Sentinel and The Racing Round Up Show. He said he knew Morrissey jumped the first restart.
“I feel like I did my job tonight and got the car where I needed to be, and then just got my right front cleaned off under caution multiple times, and ended up getting beat down the front stretch, and then ended up being the control car after he drove over top of me, when another caution came out, so I'm not quite sure what happened there.”
Video shows Morrissey got into the wall coming to the green, although it appeared he may have broke traction regardless of whether there was contact. On an earlier restart Brown drove into Morrissey’s door as well, Morrissey said.
Then the aftermath – they got together on the back stretch, with Morrissey climbing up the left side of Brown’s car – was a combination of more of the same behavior and racing for a big win, according to Morrissey.
“Coming out of 2, I tried crossing him back over, and he just chopped down and I ran over his left rear tire.” Morrissey told FloRacing, the streaming service that carried the race.
“I mean, it gets aggressive, but that was just a little too much. If I was on the bottom I would have raced the guy hard, but you gotta kind of get your nose ahead of the guy you’re racing with before you can run him up like that.”
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Morrissey was done for the night due to the damage. Brown continued, although his car showed wear and tear for the incident. He restarted on the front row – drawing some question of whether he should have been put to the rear for being a part of the caution – but was swallowed up by Johnson and ended up third. Ironically, Johnson thanked Brown for how clean they raced.
In addressing his finish, Brown summed up the crazy sequence in general.
“Hopefully, the fans had a good time tonight,” he said, “because this was definitely an expensive race for us.”
This article originally appeared on Milwaukee Journal Sentinel: Closer look at the late-race antics and anger at the 47th Slinger Nationals
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