{"id":674340,"date":"2026-05-16T22:52:11","date_gmt":"2026-05-16T22:52:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/674340\/"},"modified":"2026-05-16T22:52:11","modified_gmt":"2026-05-16T22:52:11","slug":"nascars-natalie-decker-goes-on-wild-expletive-filled-rant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/674340\/","title":{"rendered":"NASCAR’s Natalie Decker goes on wild, expletive-filled rant"},"content":{"rendered":"

Natalie Decker probably would like to forget Friday\u2019s race in Dover, Del., ever took place.<\/p>\n

Competing in NASCAR\u2019s ECOSAVE 200 in the Craftsman Truck Series on Friday, Decker finished 81 laps before bowing out of the competition.<\/p>\n

In communicating with her team, which wanted her to come to the pit road for a pass-through penalty, Decker admitted that she didn\u2019t \u201cwant to keep doing this.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cYou guys, I\u2019m trying my best to hold my s\u2013t together, but I don\u2019t want to keep doing this,\u201d Decker, who had received prior penalties in the race, including for a violation at the start, said.<\/p>\n

Natalie Decker has no business on a race track and she embarrasses everyone every time she speaks. Beyond over her existence in NASCAR. pic.twitter.com\/0oXjkTfJuG<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2014 Ryan Larkin (@Larkin8) May 16, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n

Once the 28-year-old\u2019s team told her that if she didn\u2019t want to continue competing, she should come in, Decker used more expletives to express that she was trying to keep her composure.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere\u2019s just so many s\u2013tty things that I could say right now,\u201d Decker said, \u201cand I\u2019m just trying to keep it together, about the f\u2013king director of the series.\u201d <\/p>\n

When her team said it might be worth just bringing the truck into the garage, she said she would feel like a \u201cf\u2013king failure\u201d if she did so before saying she was likely going to face a suspension and felt like she was done ever competing again in the truck series.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis series f\u2013king sucks,\u201d Decker said, adding that she wanted to strictly compete in the O\u2019Reilly Auto Parts Series and that she was worried about facing online vitriol.<\/p>\n

\"NatalieNatalie Decker (#22 Team Reaume Nico\u2019s Bagels & Brunch Ford) races with Andres Perez De Lara (#44 Niece Motorsports Precision de Mexico Chevrolet) through turn 1 during the NASCAR CRAFTSMAN Truck Series ECOSAVE 200 on May 15, 2026, at Dover Motor Speedway in Dover, DE. Icon Sportswire via Getty Images<\/p>\n

She officially finished the race in 34th, one week after coming in 36th at Watkins Glen. <\/p>\n

Decker, who gave birth to her son, Levi, in February 2025, made her return to NASCAR last August in the O\u2019Reilly series after over a year off.<\/p>\n

\"NatalieNatalie Decker, driver of the #22 Nico\u2019s Bagels and Brunch Ford, walks onstage during driver intros prior to the NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series Bully Hill Vineyards 176 at The Glen at Watkins Glen International on May 8, 2026 in Watkins Glen, New York. Getty Images<\/p>\n

Decker previously made history in the truck series, placing fifth in Daytona in 2020, the highest a female driver has ever placed in the circuit.<\/p>\n

In the wake of Friday\u2019s DNF, Decker took to Instagram to post that she\u2019s going to continue fighting out there on the race course. <\/p>\n

\u201cI am not going to lie I am really disappointed in myself because after all those penalties mentally I never recovered,\u201d she wrote in the caption of her post. \u201cI know there is going to be a lot of hate around my last to weekends racing and nothing you can say is worse then how hard I am on myself right now. But I am going to push myself to get through this and control what I can control moving forward and show up to my next race with a smile on my face and fire in me to keep doing what I love.\u201d<\/p>\n

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