Posted on 05/16/2026 10:02:37 AM PDT by V_TWIN
Natalie Decker parked her truck during Friday's race at Dover after just 81 laps after NASCAR black-flagged her for being too slow.
That, of course, isn't the whole story. Not even close.
Decker essentially rage-quit during the race, suffering one of the most stunning in-car meltdowns I have ever heard. And folks, I've heard A LOT over the radio in all my years covering NASCAR. Frankly, until yesterday, I thought I'd heard it all.
You guys, I'm trying to hold my s--- together, but I don't want to keep doing this," a crying Decker begins after being told to come down pit road for a pass-through penalty.
"There’s just so many s----- things that I could say right now, and I’m just trying to keep it together, about the f---ing director of the series."
"Let's remember what's on our truck, and just bring it to the garage, right?" said team owner Josh Reaume, referring, clearly, to the sponsors.
"I feel like a f---ing failure if I do that," she responded. "There’s so many things I want to say and I’m probably going to get f---ing suspended, you have no idea."
"I’m sorry Josh, I’m not going to come back to the Truck Series," she continued. "I’m staying in the O’Reilly Series, this series f---ing sucks. The amount of hate I’m going to get online for this is just going to be insane. I’m not ready."
(Excerpt) Read more at foxnews.com ...
LEAH PRUETT STEWART
PAULA MURPHY
SHIRLEY MILDOWNEY
ERICA ENDERS
SHIRLEY MULDOWNEY & ERICA ENDERS NEVER HAD THAT PROBLEM......
OR PAULA MURPHY WHO GOT THE FIRST FEMALE FUNNY CAR LICENSE-—MANY YEARS AGO
SHIRLEY SHAHAN-—STOCK CAR CLASS IN DRAG RACING —THE 50’s TO 1972.
I agree. He was in it for the money.
“It sounds like there’s a truck series, a stock car series (I think that is the main event), maybe a motorcycle series, etc.”
Truck, O’Reilly and Cup.
Cup is the major.
O’Reilly and Cup cars look similar (Camry, Camaro, Mustang) but are different drive trains.
Did for me, certainly.
And you have people who can’t get an offer, like Corey Heim or Nick Sanchez because of paid drivers, talentless drivers being funding, like Riley Herbst and Dr. Patrick Starpoli.
can she parallel park?
“If only Smokey Yunick was still around to offer an opinion...”
For those of you who don’t know who Smokey Yunick was for years, he wrote for Popular Science for 28 years and said “I was their ‘Dear Abby of Cars.’ He also has written a column, “Track Tech,” for Circle Track, a monthly oval track racing publication. That column generated hundreds of letters each month and Smokey tried to answer them all - even if just a single line. The very least he’ll do is send the questioner his phone number.
wy69
....And obviously, this wasn’t one of them
https://www.reddit.com/r/racing/comments/1td815m/woman_racers_follow_pacecara_little_too_far/
Hilarious!!!
EC
Good grief SMH
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