“Tell Him I Personally Said Shut Up”- Furious NASCAR Driver Rips Dale Jr’s Star Over Martinsville Apology

Sammy Smith spent the weekend before Martinsville pulling off a double no-non-Cup driver had managed at a single track since Greg Biffle in 2001, winning both the Truck and O’Reilly Series races at Talladega. One week later, that momentum lasted until an early restart, when a multi-car wreck hindered Corey Day’s Chevrolet and sent Lavar Scott’s No. 45 spinning. The wreck was loud enough. The radio traffic that followed was louder. “Tell him I said ‘shut up.’ Tell him I said, right now, ‘shut up.’ Don’t ever apologize to me again, ever. This is the second time.