Dawson Cram selling shirts to benefit Joey Gase charity: ‘Sometimes you’re the bumper, sometimes you’re the windshield’

Gase’s bumper throw occurred after Cram turned Gase as the two went into Turn 1. Gase’s No. 35 Chevrolet slammed hard into the wall, nearly ripping off his bumper completely. Gase decided he’d finish the deal himself. He yanked it off his car and chucking it at Cram as he made his way around the racetrack.

Gase finished the race 34th, while Cram came away with a P25 result. After the race, NASCAR confirmed it would speak to Gase about the incident.

Gase went nuclear on Cram and JD Motorsports after the race.

“I think him just not having his head screwed on right,” Gase said. “You know I gave the kid his first opportunity ever in Xfinity and I know [team owner] Johnny Davis is in the business of wrecking race cars and we’re definitely not we’re a small team and racing hard for the lucky dog and apparently, he just didn’t know how to lift. Maybe his throttle stuck, I don’t know.”

NASCAR fined Gase $5,000 on Wednesday.

“A safety violation may be imposed for any action or omission by a competitor or vehicle that creates an unsafe environment or poses a threat to the safety of the Competitors,” NASCAR stated.

Denny Hamlin breaks down Joey Gase bumper throw at Dawson Cram

During the latest episode of his Actions Detrimental podcast, Denny Hamlin touched on what went down between Gase and Cram, and why he believes NASCAR shouldn’t have fined Gase.

“You have to understand that the reason Joey’s really upset is that, you know, these guys, I mean, they work on their own cars,” Hamlin said. “They face, they scrounge to get to the racetrack, every single week. It’s very, very difficult. You know, they’re just trying to make a very modest living, to say the least, you know, by getting to the racetrack every week. You know, he mentioned the financial implications. He thought that that was like a 60 grand wreck for him. That’s probably, I would say that’s probably somewhat true. You know, that car is probably destroyed.

“They’ve got to purchase another chassis, you know, fuel cell. There’ll be all kinds of different things. Shocks are all gone. Rear-end housing. So that’s why he’s upset. When we get upset it in the Cup Series, it has no financial implications, then maybe some prize money that we lost. We don’t feel the pain that the car owners feel. Now I feel it when Bubba [Wallace] or Tyler [Reddick] wrecks. I’m like, ‘Oh, gosh, dang it.’ You know, I know how expensive that is. But Joey, as a racecar driver and an owner, is feeling this double pain, which is why he took his anger out on that back bumper.”