O'Donnell: Intentional spins are a 'judgement call' | NASCAR at Texas Motor Speedway

[@brandonhontz1159]

This is what a 50,000 dollar spin looks like.

[@wesleyem3]

This kind of thing needs to be examined by someone during each race. These guys do these things cuz their teammates get desperate and other playoff drivers are getting screwed over because of it. We can't let this slide. Not now, not ever.

[@shanetrent3242]

What part of flat tire are you not intelligent enough to understand?

[@lilicewall4343]

@@shanetrent3242 The fact that he had control of the car for half a corner

[@montymontana6540]

And he had control after the spin win he drive it to pit road

[@shanetrent3242]

@@montymontana6540 he was going slower,like you,idiot.

[@bobby6715]

This is the reason why Larson is gonna miss the final four at homestead.

[@TBaker_HighlineDesigns]

As a fan of his, tbh if it weren't for this format he wouldn't be close to making it and if he were to win it all, it'd be more egregious than Logano winning last year.

[@shanetrent3242]

No, Larson is the reason he won't make it.

[@montymontana6540]

Lots of drives wouldn't have won a championship if it weren't for this format

[@SeventyGTX]

@@TBaker_HighlineDesigns Nothing tops Kyle Busch winning the championship missing 11 races in 2015

[@TBaker_HighlineDesigns]

@@SeventyGTX at least he came back and dominated. Larson has been awful for a majority of this year.

[@UnEditedd]

Park em. You spin on purpose and make “us” make a judgement call. Park em.

[@dennisjanda5081]

Stevie Wonder could've controlled that spin out !!

[@brandonhontz4766]

Clint Bowyer taught him well...anyone whos been around this sport knows he clearly spins out on purpose but we don't want to offend him so we'll just act like it didn't happen.

[@Chris.B1111]

Isn't everything a judgement call for NASCAR? the rules seem to mean nothing. It's all up to who ever is "in charge" to call it as they see it as it happens.

[@LilTwix81]

I mean Joey spinning last week was obvious ....

[@jackhamstertoontown]

Yeah because he had a tire down and had no possible way of making the corner. He spun up top on purpose so nobody else would be collected.

[@LilTwix81]

JackHamster yeah ok my point proven he did it on “purpose” if he is a true champ he would’ve been able to hang on to it and not spin out....

[@locoluke4149]

CruzJr81 bahaha.... no

[@jackhamstertoontown]

@@LilTwix81 yeah i guess he shouldve been able to make the corner at martinsville with absolutely zero grip, you're right. He should have to just drove it down into the corner and wrecked 3 or 4 other cars so it didn't look obvious. That would have been a smarter thing to do, as a champion.

[@Evan_Moore61]

CruzJr81 Dale Earnhardt is a 7 time champion and he couldn’t hold onto a car with a flat tire either.

[@fishproductions22]

Kansas: debris comes out on the apron: Caution Texas: car spins out of control multiple times on the racing surface. A caution very late

[@xKami102x]

There's a difference between this happening in an ordinary race versus a PLAYOFF race. These races are absolutely vital for Playoff drivers and should be scrutinized to the best ability of the officials to determine if a driver is breaking the rules or not. Playoff races are NOT the time to be making "judgement calls". Either it is against the rules or not. Act swiftly and punish the drivers found to be breaking the rules immediately. You cannot just hand wave these away. What an absolute joke, NASCAR.

[@camarowland4]

The caution should be thrown when a driver gets a flat anyway, in my opinion. No need to have guys trying to wrangle a car while everyone else is going 180 mph past them. It also takes the urgency to get to the pits down, which gives the driver a chance to keep it low speed and hopefully keep the tire intact

[@camarowland4]

@blueridgeboy I only think that because 90% of the time its going to draw a caution, so may as well say throw it every time and prevent situations like this where it becomes a bigger judgement call

[@javi.speedster24]

That looked just like in Kentucky when he spun out

[@coldstonestunners]

Bullsquat judgement call. Fine him. Its a bad look

[@shanetrent3242]

Fine him for having a flat tire? That's fucking stupid.

[@lilicewall4343]

@@shanetrent3242 he clearly could have held it on the apron.

[@ronnielewis2176]

lil ice wall Then you’re a professional wheel man

[@lilicewall4343]

@@ronnielewis2176 he held it straight for half a corner..

[@ronnielewis2176]

lil ice wall once again you’re a professional wheel or a conspiracy theorist

[@ecbadboy101]

The first spin wasn’t intentional, the second was.

[@haydenodell404]

“It’s a judgement call” the dude snitched on himself

[@talonpilot]

Watch at 0:15. He had the car collected up but then drives back up on the track and turns left. Without sound I couldn’t tell if he blipped the throttle but with a flat rear tire, he knew it would do that. I very disappointed; lost all respect for him. Isn’t Blaney one of his best friends? Did the “spin” help out his buddy? Where was Blaney before the spin, where was he after?

[@lynnhardyjr4383]

Mystery cautions are ok or if a specific driver scrapes the wall the man on the radio says "put it out!". Hell let's take breaks after a specific amount of laps and call them stages. But if you have a flat and your not on the list you better shred that tire and destroy your fender or crash if you want the yellow to come out. Yeah Bubba swerved the car prior to spinning, its possible and plausible that he was trying to determine which rear tire was flat. When he actually spun you can clearly see the left rear was down and race cars are a handful when a rear tire is flat at any speed. Plus he literally lock it down when the car began to spin making it even more plausible that he didn't spin out on purpose along with tagging the wall. As a driver If your gonna spin on purpose you know how to do it without hitting anything.

[@SammyMaggio]

In my opinion, I think Bubba blew a left rear tire and couldn’t control his car, in no way do I think Bubba’s spin was intentional. He had a left rear tire go down and lost control of his car.

[@CaptainSaminoz]

Exactly, once his tire hit the apron he had no control

[@mkwrockers0099]

Sammy/Tracy Maggio The first time he got sideways was an accident, the second time was blatantly intentional. It can’t get more obvious.

[@jamesshives5679]

@@CaptainSaminoz I like Bubba but at no point did it look like his car was out of control. It's pretty easy to see when someone is actually struggling to control a car. Guys drive with flat tires all the time and don't spin out like that at such low speeds. It really looked like he gassed it to get it to spin the second time.

[@CaptainSaminoz]

@@jamesshives5679 if he did on purpose than penalize that boi. I'm a bubba fan and couldn't watch the race so I only saw this incident. But ruining a race like that is no good.

[@Layhz_]

Are you serious... he proceeds to go to the apron and "suddenly" go up on the track and turns the car to the left. He could've stayed on the apron and not spun out but instead pulled off this move.

[@adhdcrazy11]

That's me on Nascar Heat 😂😂😂

[@TBaker_HighlineDesigns]

It really puts NASCAR in a tough spot here. You had to throw the yellow once he spun out and that would screw the drivers caught a lap down regardless. Fine, penalize or suspend all you want, but that doesn't change the fact that the guys that were screwed. And you can't just give them the spots back on track that they lost, and you can't hand out the points they lost because of it now. There's nothing that they can do to benefit those guys now and those were the ones effected by it.

[@Johnsor21]

Darrell spun himself our purpose. It’s obvious. He could’ve coasted to pit lane and not spin but he decided to gas it up and spin out

[@mitchcolburn1216]

Judgement call?! This was blatant!!!

[@mikullmac]

Eliminate pit stops under yellow and the lucky dog so that maybe stunts like this will stop.

[@scag8469]

Looked like a normal Bubba Wallace spin. Who knows if he spun out on purpose because that's normal for him!!

[@mulehead3697]

Yeah the judgement call refers who’s up front, leading or one of nascar’s golden Hendrick boys.

[@robertbarone2306]

Dont understand why he would do that. He is not a front running car. He was not going to maintain his position. Stupid move

[@halfassproductions2715]

Id love as a bubba fan to say he didn't spin on purpose, but he turned hard left and gave the throttle pedal and clutch a hit. Its so obvious he did it on purpose, even as a fan that shit cant be tolerated. Use him as an example to scare other teams away from doing it

[@streetboss24]

why was the caution not thrown in the first place

[@MattChaffe]

Saying stuff at a driver's meeting isn't going to change anything. Having penalties will.

[@tylerjones9309]

I wish decision was for Joey when he spun Kenseth at Kansas that was definitely for his advantage. I mean come on Bubba is on a one car team that only can win at restrictor plate tracks and no way he was going to beat Harvick.

[@georgewaters8592]

What am I missing here - they threw a caution flag out for that ?? Granted, I'm only getting back into NASCAR after a long break since Tim Richmond passed......

[@steveng1624]

Looks like he's going to pull another one off.

[@PP-kb2iw]

If you gotta cheat you weak

[@davidparsons5910]

know your lane he is 100% aware of what he created, should be parked for the next race plus a humility check, an apology to the racers that was directly impacted that means to all th racers. Stand with your peers own up or be a child

[@rickarra9396]

Larson got screwed. Bubba will have a rough race this Sunday. Bubba, you're going into the wall Sunday. Of course it will be just a racin thing

[@FloridaSky]

Can't you just listen in on the team radios and hear if they told him to spin?

[@sharathvasudev]

Code words

[@cameron2467]

Can anyone see his hands?

[@jettrink7510]

Wrong... #43 big time spun on purpose.

[@DaytonaPrototypes]

This is no worse than intentionally spinning someone out. Like Suarez wrecking Matt Tifft at Indy. When does that start to be penalized?

[@DupontandLowesWarrior]

He got 50 Points docked

[@joeharris5851]

No different than guys having a flat tire and running on track with a flat tire and shredding all over track to get a caution. Or spinning out able to get going soon as caution comes out they take off.

[@ericspeights2987]

Stop the BS, it's the same thing when Boyer did it!

[@traviscalkins5881]

It's not what he did it's why, every other time if a guy has a tire down Nascar throws caution at beginning of race but then won't throw it for others , how many times does a guy brush the wall and they throw yellow but then later same thing and no yellow, bubba just wanted them to be consistent

[@acenace24]

Drivers do this all the time. I'm not saying they do it to fix a race, but they spin to have a caution to spare them going down laps under green. I highly doubt Nascar has the balls to fine someone that is a big name.

[@samuelmcneill1120]

You’re right. Kyle Busch did it last night and NASCAR hasn’t said shit

[@Danielroyal2488]

When he spun he made it look so obvous

[@xSnakeBerryx]

Nascar: Did you bring out an intentinal caution? Darrell Wallce: "IS IT CAUSE IM BLACK?!" Nascar: oh its nothing......

[@xSnakeBerryx]

@Pop Whooosh

[@ronnielewis2176]

SnakeBerry what a dunce

[@shanetrent3242]

Go,Bubba,go!

[@lowpricedpaint]

That's what you get with teams, and playoffs in racing. Lots of cheating.

[@supremeleadergnkdroid3202]

Moon Hitsearth ah yes. Another playoffs suck comment. Original

[@Evan_Moore61]

blueridgeboy So only football can have playoffs? Then by that logic NHL, NBA, and the MLB can’t have playoffs anymore.

[@lowpricedpaint]

@@Evan_Moore61 football is totally different than racing. Both teams, are involved in football playoffs, so it's one on one. In racing that's not even possible, when you have so many factors in every race. Teams not in the playoffs can change the outcome of anyone in the playoffs. We seen that in this race. Joe blow spins, and changes the outcome, there's no way that you can fairly end up with the best driver as the champion. The old point system was fair, and it was what kept fans watching. NASCAR is losing its fans, faster than it can replace them.

[@SuperScottschannel]

O'Donnell has piss poor judgment then!!!!!!!!!! As usual.

[@jsderbycars1983]

He had a flat

[@stevenmorrison4692]

You know it's intentional when RPM isn't going to appeal the penalty. Darrell "Bum" Wallace is that. A bum. Doesn't deserve any kind of ride in NASCAR's top series.

[@JEFFNMANDA3]

Clint Boyers intentional spin was better but they both should be kicked out of NASCAR. If there is that much lack of respect for your fellow drivers you shouldn't be racing. Feel bad for Larson who really does care about motorsports

[@slicksilver9441]

It was def intentional.

[@AG-vs3xc]

How can u fake a flat tire....🤔🤔🤔😨😨😨

[@andrewashington7522]

@Elon Musk It has nothing to do with "race." NASCAR has allowed other more prominent drivers to do this for years, so they can't single him out. If they did, the next time Harvick, Kyle Busch, or Jimmy Johnson does it, they would have set a precedent that wouldn't benefit their stars. FYI, Jeff Gordon did this all the time... I'm 43 years old and have been watching NASCAR since I was 8; I've seen it all.

[@SuperScottschannel]

Don't penalize the black guy....it's racist.

[@mrCoffelino]

nascar hypocrites they throw yellows for nothing cause they want more BUSHHHHHHHHHHHHH comercials

[@jcearnhardt393]

He can even spin out on purpose without hitting the wall. He is terrible, o yeah but he is black so it dont matter 10000 other drivers in the country got more talent but hey we have to have diversity