I made it to lap 56. Now I have a headache, oof / Steve Wallace
Patrick Carpentier, who announced he would retire after the NAPA Auto Parts 200, saw his 27-year racing career come to a bitter ending after contact with Steve Wallace on lap 56 in one of the hairpins.
“I guess Steve Wallace hasn’t learned how to brake, so he spun me at the hairpin,” Carpentier said. “After that, I just lost it, ran people over and they ran me over back. It’s one on those deals.”
After the race, Carpentier’s crew chief, Jerry Baxter, took out his frustration with Wallace by reaching into Wallace’s car on pit road and pulling his hair.
“We had a couple of challenging moments where me and Carpentier were racing really hard,” Wallace said. “I got underneath him, I tried to outbrake him. He crowded me. I got loose, and I spun him out.
“Obviously Baxter was upset. I’d be upset, too … [but] only girls pull hair.”
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