NASCAR decision slammed as Joe Gibbs Racing chief calls 'complete b******t'

NASCAR's decision to pause the Clash to allow cars to refuel has been described as 'complete bulls**t' by a Joe Gibbs Racing crew chief.

After multiple postponements over the weekend, NASCAR finally got the Clash in the books on Wednesday night, but it proved to be somewhat of a chaotic race.

Although it started dry, rain and sleet later fell on the track, with NASCAR eventually declaring it a wet race and forcing the cars to change to wet tires after a delay.

Those conditions only caused more havoc, however, and by the end, there had been multiple red flags and a total of 17 cautions in between the 200 laps of racing.

With so many laps under caution, fuel became another issue, with Kyle Larson the first to run out on lap 153, and several other drivers and teams, such as race winner Ryan Preece and RFK Racing, voicing concerns over the matter on the radio.

NASCAR fuel decision slammed

NASCAR eventually red-flagged the race and ordered all of the cars to return to the pit lane on lap 165 in order to get more fuel on board to finish the race.

However, Chase Briscoe's crew chief, James Small, was furious about this, with his man in se

"This is complete b******t," he said over the radio, via Jordan Bianchi. "You were meant to start the race full.

"These motherf*****s didn't start the race full, so it's their own problem they're running out of fuel."

You could argue that was heat of the moment and that it happened during the race, but he was still unhappy with NASCAR post-race when speaking to Matt Weaver.

“I just don’t understand that," he explained. "Everybody knows the rules. Everybody, if you started the race full, you have more than enough to get to the end. I just, whatever.

“It’s like, why do we even have the rules? Even after the LCQ, they gave a car another set of tires that they said they were never gonna give. It’s just constantly dropping and changing.”

Preece delighted

Not everyone felt the same, specifically one of the teams that were running dangerously low on fuel, the No. 60 of Ryan Preece.

"We've been lobbying for this, I can't believe they're going to let us do it," the crew said over the radio during the refueling phase. "First sensible thing we've done all night."

Those comments came after Preece was told earlier in the race that he was 20-25 laps from running out, despite there being well over 40 remaining.