\u201cYou have to be aggressive. If you\u2019re not going to be the person who\u2019s making the aggressive moves, you\u2019re probably going to be the person who\u2019s going to have said moves used on you,\u201d Ware said.<\/p>\n\u201cYou have to separate the ties and dynamics and relationships you have off the racetrack. Anyone who goes into Bowman Gray thinking it\u2019s all going to be rainbows and sunshine where everyone\u2019s going to walk away happy, they\u2019re very much living in a fantasy. When you\u2019re on the track, you have no friends, only enemies.\u201d<\/p>\n
It\u2019s a race of rivalries at the country\u2019s longest-running weekly racetrack. For Ware, it has included a good-natured sibling rivalry.<\/p>\n
\u201cMy brother, Carson, in his first time ever in a Modified, won at Bowman Gray. He held off Burt Myers in the feature and won the race,\u201d Ware said.<\/p>\n
\u201cSo, last year he said to me, \u2018If you don\u2019t win this, there\u2019s still only going to be one Ware brother with a win at Bowman Gray.\u2019 You\u2019d think he\u2019d won the Daytona 500 or Indianapolis 500 with how he holds that Bowman Gray win over my head.\u201d<\/p>\n
It\u2019s all in good fun, as the Ware brothers support one other in their racing pursuits.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe both have family history at Bowman Gray,\u201d said the elder Ware. \u201cWe\u2019ve both raced Modifieds there, and any opportunity we have to race, we\u2019re beyond grateful for. As my brother gets to race more and more here in 2026 and beyond, I want to be the biggest asset that I can be for him. He supports me every weekend. He\u2019s watching the Cup races, cheering me on and texting me and talking to me after the races. And I do the same for him.\u201d<\/p>\n
The Clash weekend begins at 1:15 p.m. EST on Saturday with the Madhouse Classic, the 125-lap Modified race featuring the kind of cars the Ware brothers first raced at Bowman Gray. After the checkered flag drops on the Madhouse Classic, on-track activity for the Cup Series begins with practice at 6:10 p.m. before the heat races start at 8:30 p.m. FloRacing will stream the Madhouse Classic while FS1 will broadcast Cup action. Sunday\u2019s LCQ race goes green at 6 p.m. to set the final lineup for the Cook Out Clash. FOX will broadcast the LCQ, transition to its NASCAR RaceDay studio show at 7:30 p.m., and then cover the Clash, which goes green at 8 p.m. SiriusXM NASCAR Radio will also provide live coverage throughout the event.<\/p>\n
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