{"id":34911,"date":"2025-07-30T18:01:10","date_gmt":"2025-07-30T18:01:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/34911\/"},"modified":"2025-07-30T18:01:10","modified_gmt":"2025-07-30T18:01:10","slug":"kenny-wallace-reacts-to-nascar-suspending-austin-hill-its-fun-to-play-tough-guy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/34911\/","title":{"rendered":"Kenny Wallace reacts to NASCAR suspending Austin Hill: ‘It’s fun to play tough guy’"},"content":{"rendered":"

NASCAR handed down a one-race suspension for Austin Hill<\/a> after he right-rear hooked Aric Almirola in Saturday\u2019s Xfinity Series race at Indianapolis. With the suspension, he also lost all of his playoff points.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s a steep penalty, but one that is teaching the lesson NASCAR wants it to, said legendary racer Kenny Wallace. Wallace opened up on the suspension with a short video on his Twitter account<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cOf course the way Austin can get them back is he can win right away,\u201d Wallace said. \u201cSo here\u2019s my message: Don\u2019t f*ck with NASCAR. They\u2019re gonna get you. Oh it\u2019s fun to play tough guy. And then you realize, oh, I don\u2019t own NASCAR. They own me.\u201d<\/p>\n

That was the gist of Wallace\u2019s message to Austin Hill. You picked a fight with the wrong entity, in other words.<\/p>\n

The contact itself was egregious, but it could at least be explained by an earlier incident on the track. Wallace walked through that early on in his segment about Hill.<\/p>\n

\u201cAric Almirola got right on the rear bumper of Austin Hill,\u201d Wallace explained. \u201cGot him loose and I\u2019m going to tell you what, Austin Hill saved it, did a hell of a job. What a great save, Austin, good job. But he was so mad that Aric Almirola got him loose that instead of just saving it and fighting for the win, he clearly turned left on Aric, hooked him in the right rear and sent Aric into the wall.\u201d<\/p>\n

It was what happened next that cost Hill the most, according to Wallace. And it\u2019s a tough lesson for young drivers to learn.<\/p>\n

\u201cThen he came down pit road, Austin Hill comes down pit road to get tires and he is motherf*cking NASCAR on the radio,\u201d Wallace said. \u201cWhat got him in real trouble besides hooking Aric Almirola was he motherf*cked NASCAR on that radio. He tells NASCAR go f*ck themselves. I said, \u2018Uh oh.\u2019 So here\u2019s the way NASCAR does that deal. They\u2019re going to get your attention. That\u2019s the way NASCAR works. They\u2019re going to get your attention.\u201d<\/p>\n

It took a while for Wallace to realize in his own career that NASCAR makes the rules. You can push against them all you want, but at the end of the day the governing body calls the shots.<\/p>\n

\u201cNow that I\u2019m older when I look back on my career and I look at the young kids nowadays\u2026 the young kids haven\u2019t figured out they\u2019re in NASCAR\u2019s playground,\u201d Wallace said. \u201cOne thing NASCAR told me: They don\u2019t need you. The drivers are in line. They\u2019re trying to get your ride. We\u2019ve got lots of other drivers.<\/p>\n

\u201cSo just when you motherf*ck NASCAR and think, \u2018Hey NASCAR, you can kiss my ass,\u2019 well, Austin Hill just figured out what happens. So NASCAR has suspended, they will not let Austin Hill race next week. He\u2019s going to take a week off, and that hurts, because somebody\u2019s going to be in his car, and that\u2019s what hurts the most, when you see somebody in your racecar.\u201d<\/p>\n

Wallace summed up the situation on Austin Hill pretty succinctly. There\u2019s not much else to it.<\/p>\n

\u201cNow they\u2019re going to take Austin Hill\u2019s points and they\u2019re going to seed him last,\u201d Wallace said. \u201cSo he\u2019s in the playoffs but he\u2019s going to be last now. He\u2019s starting the playoffs with no points. That hits you in the jugular right there. That hurts like a motherf*cker.<\/p>\n

\u201c\u2018Hey Austin, everything you did all year don\u2019t mean jack sh*t. Yeah, we\u2019re going to let you in the playoffs because you did win the race, but we\u2019re going to let you start the playoffs with no points. You\u2019re going to start last.’\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NASCAR handed down a one-race suspension for Austin Hill after he right-rear hooked Aric Almirola in Saturday\u2019s Xfinity…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":34912,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[446],"tags":[49,48,634,82],"class_list":["post-34911","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nascar","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-nascar","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34911","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=34911"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34911\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34912"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34911"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34911"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34911"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}