Dillon, No. 3 team fire off at Harvick after wreck – Nascar

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Austin Dillon had harsh words for Kevin Harvick after an on-track altercation in the late stages of Sunday night’s NASCAR Sprint Cup Series race at Texas Motor Speedway.

Dillon, the pole-starter, and Harvick ran in close quarters in a contest for fifth place shortly after a restart. Harvick’s Stewart-Haas Racing No. 4 Chevrolet bumped Dillon’s Richard Childress Racing No. 3 Chevy from behind, sending his car bounding into the Turn 4 wall.

The cars of Casey Mears and Brian Scott were collected in the incident. Harvick offered an apology over his team radio communications, but Dillon and his crew chief, Slugger Labbe, were still upset after the No. 3 car came to a halt in the garage.

“I mean, he is tucked down to my door tighter than anybody did all night,” Dillon said. “He knew how tight he was on my door and that is why I got tight and slid up in front of him. He didn’t check (up), but he had the opportunity to. He didn’t like it that the silver-spoon kid was out-running him tonight. So we will be all right; we have two weeks left and we just want to come out and win a race.”

Dillon made reference to a run-in that his brother, Ty, had with Harvick during a Camping World Truck Series race at Martinsville Speedway three years ago. Harvick had leveled a “silver spoon” insult at both Dillons after that late-race bumping match in 2013, Harvick’s last year with the Childress organization.