Michael Waltrip gets into Jeff Green during the Dodge Charger 500 at Darlington. The pair tangled all night long, drawing the ire of NASCAR officials. Credit: AP

Waltrip, Green feud all night at Darlington

Kentucky natives called to NASCAR hauler after on-track fracas

DARLINGTON, S.C. -- An ongoing on-track feud between Michael Waltrip and Jeff Green that started at Martinsville Speedway last month continued Saturday night at Darlington Raceway, prompting NASCAR to summon both veterans to the hauler for a post-race discussion.

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Eight laps into the Dodge Charger 500, the Owensboro, Ky., natives were racing one another down the backstretch and got together, sending Waltrip into the Turn 3 wall.

"I just got up on the outside of him and he decided he needed to turn right, and I had a foot on him and tried to get on the brakes and he turned himself into the fence," Green said.

Waltrip went to the garage for repairs to the front end of the No. 15 Chevrolet and returned to the track seeking payback.

On Lap 207, he exercised it, bumping Green exiting Turn 4, then hitting him twice more before spinning him out on the frontstretch.

"It's pretty obvious," Green said. "He tries to wreck me all the way down the back straightaway and I'm fast enough not to let him.

"Then finally he gets a run on me there and wrecks me, and I guess (NASCAR) didn't do anything to him.

"If I did anything to him it wasn't intentional. I've got to race these guys every week. I don't want to race like that."

Waltrip disagreed.

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"They just asked that we not get around each other," Waltrip said upon exit from the NASCAR transporter. "That'd be good with me, because the only two times I've ever had him behind me this year he's spun me out."

Waltrip and Green also had a run-in at Martinsville, when Green got into Waltrip, wrecking him.

"It's unfortunate that we have to deal with stuff like this," Waltrip said. "I'm baffled. I was running down the back straightaway on the first lap of green, and he hit me and run me over and wrecked me.

"The sad part is he doesn't pay any price and I get my car tore all to pieces. So it's cool with me, though. If NASCAR says just stay away from each other or you'll regret it, then that's good, because he's hit me in the back twice.

"It's sad. Good thing it was Mother's Day because my momma said don't talk bad about people."

Green said Saturday's incident wasn't intentional.

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"Maybe I shouldn't have got up on the outside of him, but we're racing, I ain't gonna let off for nobody," Green said. "I hate it for him, but it tore our car up. We had to fix it all night long.

"It just killed us from the get-go. I had a car-width there, and he tried to pass on the bottom and he couldn't get a run so he tried to get back up in the groove getting into three. He thinks I wrecked him, but I didn't."

NASCAR spokesman Jim Hunter said he's uncertain whether any penalties await the drivers.

"Everybody that was in the hauler tonight left with a clear understanding of how we stand and where we stand," Hunter said. "Whether or not any penalties will be forthcoming, I honestly don't know at this point. I would say possibly.

"Mike Helton made it pretty clear that these kinds of deals are over and won't be tolerated."