{"id":583369,"date":"2026-04-05T07:45:10","date_gmt":"2026-04-05T07:45:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/583369\/"},"modified":"2026-04-05T07:45:10","modified_gmt":"2026-04-05T07:45:10","slug":"nascar-rockingham-rajah-caruth-apologizes-after-sending-jesse-love-into-wall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/583369\/","title":{"rendered":"NASCAR Rockingham: Rajah Caruth apologizes after sending Jesse Love into wall"},"content":{"rendered":"

It\u2019s been an eventful couple weeks on the track for Rajah Caruth and Jesse Love, who have had a couple run-ins. After a dust-up at Martinsville<\/a>, the two came together on the track again at Rockingham on Saturday.<\/p>\n

This time it was Rajah Caruth getting into the back of Jesse Love<\/a> to send him into the wall. Caruth attempted to switch lanes during a run, but misjudged the space, clipping Love and sending the No. 2 car into the outside wall. The impact wasn\u2019t massive, but it was enough to immediately trigger frustration from Love over the radio.<\/p>\n

After the race, Caruth went quickly to the RCR team area to apologize. And he made sure to note his apology to reporters, too.<\/p>\n

\u201cYeah, oh, other thing,\u201d Caruth said, per Matt Weaver of Motorsport<\/a>. \u201cObviously I got into the 2 earlier, and I was just trying to cross behind him. Obviously didn\u2019t mean to do that, and obviously I\u2019ll go over there once we finish up over here. Obviously wanted to do that better, but glad to have a somewhat quiet day at the end.\u201d<\/p>\n

Rajah Caruth\u2019s mistake ended up being pretty detrimental to Jesse Love. The No. 2 car had issues throughout the day related to the right-side contact from the wall.<\/p>\n

RCR\u2019s Danny Lawrence explained what happened. Essentially, an uncontrollable vibration caused all sorts of problems.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen he got in the wall there, when him and the 88 got in the wall there, there was a bunch of stuff bent on the right front end, on the right rear,\u201d Lawrence said. \u201cAnd it broke the nuts out that holds the wheel spacers on. So the wheels kept coming loose, and you can see on the back of the wheels where all that stuff was backing out.<\/p>\n

\u201cSo he came in and we hammered, hammered on the lug nuts. And even when we didn\u2019t need to stop that last time we came in just to make sure. But that\u2019s what was happening, is the right-side wheels were coming loose.\u201d<\/p>\n

The good news? Rajah Caruth and Jesse Love seemed to handle things professionally despite having a run-in for the second straight week.<\/p>\n

At Martinsville, it was the drivers who opted to handle things with cooler heads as Love\u2019s team initially stepped in to confront Caruth. In any case, Caruth was quick to quiet things down on Saturday after another potential flare-up.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It\u2019s been an eventful couple weeks on the track for Rajah Caruth and Jesse Love, who have had…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":583370,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[446],"tags":[49,48,634,82],"class_list":["post-583369","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\/583369","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=583369"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/583369\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/583370"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=583369"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=583369"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=583369"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}