{"id":236246,"date":"2025-10-24T06:07:11","date_gmt":"2025-10-24T06:07:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/236246\/"},"modified":"2025-10-24T06:07:11","modified_gmt":"2025-10-24T06:07:11","slug":"jimmy-spencer-torches-austin-hill-over-flipping-off-fans-at-talladega-hell-never-make-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/236246\/","title":{"rendered":"Jimmy Spencer torches Austin Hill over flipping off fans at Talladega: &#8216;He&#8217;ll never make it&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Austin Hill was seen flipping the middle finger to fans after taking the checkered flag in this past Saturday\u2019s Xfinity Series playoff race at Talladega Superspeedway. Hill\u2019s gesture was in response to a group of fans doing the same. <\/p>\n<p>Former <a href=\"https:\/\/www.on3.com\/pro\/category\/nascar\/news\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">NASCAR<\/a> driver Jimmy Spencer got his first look at the incident during an appearance on Tuesday\u2019s \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=PXkUfoeS6ps&amp;t=11s\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Door Bumper Clear<\/a>\u201d podcast. He did not like what he saw. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019ve never done that in my life. That\u2019s a stupid son of a b*tch, oh my God,\u201d Spencer said. \u201c\u2026 He\u2019ll never make it. I don\u2019t give a damn. I don\u2019t care. You can\u2019t do that. The fans are always right. He should be fined for that.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>NASCAR had <a href=\"https:\/\/www.on3.com\/pro\/news\/nascar-makes-penalty-decision-after-austin-hill-flips-off-fans-in-talladega-win\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">no penalties to report Wednesday<\/a>, meaning the driver of the RCR No. 21 Chevrolet is officially in the clear and won\u2019t be fined. That result is exactly what the instigating NASCAR fan wanted. X user\u00a0Dr. Chimp\u2018s original post is what kicked off the controversy in the first place, showing Hill firing a middle-finger salute straight to the camera.<\/p>\n<p>In\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/TheDrChimp\/status\/1980120793083425246\" rel=\"nofollow\">a follow-up post<\/a>\u00a0on Oct. 19th, the same X user clarified the Hill situation:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTo clarify some context to the picture:<br \/>Yes he flipped us off<br \/>Yes we did it first<br \/>Yes we thought it was hilarious<br \/>No he shouldn\u2019t be punished<br \/>I respect the gesture and it adds to the needed personality the field needs<br \/>I may hate him, but I love to hate him cuz that\u2019s sports\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Austin Hill cleared of any wrongdoing at Talladega<\/p>\n<p>Hill will move forward and focus on the final two races of the 2025 season. Talladega was his fourth win of the season and third on a superspeedway. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf you have any questions and it\u2019s green-white-checkered, you probably just go to the bottom because of how crazy the second and third lane was there at the end,\u201d Hill said after the race. \u201cBeing able to race for Richard Childress is always special, and to be able to deliver wins like this.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs the playoff started and us getting knocked out the way we did, it stung a lot, but once we knew we were still in it for the owner\u2019s championship, I decided I\u2019d do it just like I would going for a driver\u2019s championship. To be able to lock ourselves in and go to Phoenix knowing we\u2019re going for an owner\u2019s championship and be able to try and deliver one to Richard Childress Racing means the world to me.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Austin Hill was seen flipping the middle finger to fans after taking the checkered flag in this past&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":236247,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[446],"tags":[49,48,634,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-236246","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nascar","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-nascar","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236246","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=236246"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236246\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/236247"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=236246"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=236246"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=236246"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}