{"id":506749,"date":"2026-03-01T05:29:10","date_gmt":"2026-03-01T05:29:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/506749\/"},"modified":"2026-03-01T05:29:10","modified_gmt":"2026-03-01T05:29:10","slug":"corey-day-reacts-to-connor-zilisch-comments-demanding-apology","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/506749\/","title":{"rendered":"Corey Day reacts to Connor Zilisch comments, demanding apology"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Corey Day is once again <a href=\"https:\/\/www.on3.com\/pro\/news\/freddie-kraft-warns-corey-day-earning-reputation-like-carson-hocevar-flip-that-script\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">under fire for a NASCAR O\u2019Reilly Auto Parts Series wreck<\/a>. This time, the frustration is coming from Connor Zilisch, who had an up-and-down day at COTA after looking like a winning contender in Stage 1. After late contact between the two drivers, Zilisch called Day a \u201chack\u201d and demanded an apology in his post-race interview. Corey Day responded.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYeah, he got right in front of me there,\u201d Corey Day said on The CW broadcast. \u201cAnd as soon as he did, and crossed over my nose, I lost the little bit of what I had left, or got in front of me where his air was on me. So, yeah, I\u2019m going to get no sympathy for I guess that off my track record. But it wasn\u2019t intentional. Didn\u2019t want to wreck him or have that happen. Yeah, I got no problem going over there and talking to him. It was my mistake, whether I had a broken race car or not. I\u2019ll own up to it. I\u2019ll go apologize, no problem.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>With just a handful of laps remaining in the Focused Health 250 at COTA, Corey Day got into the rear of Zilisch, sending him spinning off the track. The incident ruined a potential top 5 finish for the No. 1 JRM Chevy. Corey Day attempted to break down what happened. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cYeah, I don\u2019t know. They haven\u2019t really got a great diagnosis on it yet,\u201d Day said on the broadcast. \u201cBut we had some part of the pan under the front end there come loose or something, and I lost just a lot of my platform and my front turn there, and was really difficult there in any high-speed corner. Just really nose up. Splitter\u2019s not close to the ground, so I was struggling for turn.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Corey Day is once again under fire for a NASCAR O\u2019Reilly Auto Parts Series wreck. This time, the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":506750,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[446],"tags":[49,48,634,82],"class_list":["post-506749","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\/506749","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=506749"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/506749\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/506750"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=506749"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=506749"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=506749"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}