{"id":1657273,"date":"2022-09-25T14:49:42","date_gmt":"2022-09-25T18:49:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1657273"},"modified":"2022-09-25T14:51:14","modified_gmt":"2022-09-25T18:51:14","slug":"watch-nascar-driver-punches-opponent-through-window-during-race","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/watch-nascar-driver-punches-opponent-through-window-during-race\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch: NASCAR Driver Punches Opponent Through Window During Race"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fwatch-nascar-driver-punches-opponent-through-window-during-race%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1657273&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>NASCAR driver Andrew Grady attacked opponent Davey Callihan through the window of Callihan\u2019s car after an accident knocked both drivers out of a race at Martinsville Speedway in Virginia on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>Grady claimed that Callihan flipped him off before the altercation, while his opponent denied the action.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">We&#8217;ve got tempers boiling over at <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MartinsvilleSwy?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@MartinsvilleSwy<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Andrew Grady takes out his frustration on Davey Callihan after an accident in Heat 1<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FloRacing?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@FloRacing<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/DeBkUQ27Xy\">pic.twitter.com\/DeBkUQ27Xy<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 NASCAR Roots (@NASCARRoots) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NASCARRoots\/status\/1573759390011858946?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 24, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cI mean, he wasn\u2019t close. He dive-bombed me. He hooked me, and I wanted to talk to him and he flipped me off. So I started Mike Tysoning his head,\u201d Grady said in a video after the incident.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou\u2019re in a big-boy sport. When you wreck a man, you can take a grown-man ass whipping. That\u2019s how I feel about it,\u201d he added during the interview.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Andrew Grady says Davey Callihan flipped him off when he went to talk so he decided to &#8216;Mike Tyson his head.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>He says there are dumbasses who have no business driving a Lawn Mower much less a Late Model at Martinsville.<\/p>\n<p>Says that Callihan wrecked him and Brandon Pierce. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/X1m99JRYOj\">pic.twitter.com\/X1m99JRYOj<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Matt Weaver (@MattWeaverRA) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MattWeaverRA\/status\/1573761774708482053?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 24, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Callihan offered a different take on the exchange in a response provided to the Daily Mail.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">\u201cIt was for a transfer position at Martinsville. From my perspective, I was there. It was close. But you can\u2019t give an inch for the transfer spot when there\u2019s 95 cars and I had to take it. It was just hard racing. I do apologize to (Grady), but we\u2019re fighting for our life out there so I just did what I had to do,\u201d he <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/sport\/sportsnews\/article-11246881\/NASCAR-driver-goes-BERZERK-fellow-racer-wreck-Martinsville-Speedway.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">said<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI never flipped anybody off. He just comes starts punching me inside the race car, so\u2026 I understand he\u2019s frustrated, but again it\u2019s for the transfer spot and we were just fighting for our life,\u201d Callihan added.<\/p>\n<p>A longer version of the video shows Grady pointing at Callihan as he drove by before the fight, clearly upset over being out of the race.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Funniest thing\u2026so far from the sports weekend\u2026NASCAR Advance Auto Parts Weekly Series in Martinsville,VA Andrew Grady and David Callihan get into it. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/LeBatardShow?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@LeBatardShow<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/billygil?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@billygil<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/DjwyrcQ4S8\">pic.twitter.com\/DjwyrcQ4S8<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Curtis Sheehan (@ChillinwitCurt) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ChillinwitCurt\/status\/1573920362747731969?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 25, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Grady\u2019s punches led to the video going viral, with social media sounding off on what should be done following the attack.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe should [be] suspended permanently as a nascar driver,\u201d one user tweeted.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">He should suspended permanently as a nascar driver<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Save Democracy (@GarryResists) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/GarryResists\/status\/1573761601156653057?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 24, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Another user pointed out that Callihan could barely move from within his car, putting him at a tremendous disadvantage from Grady\u2019s punches.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat wasn\u2019t a fight it was an assault. The other driver can barely move in there,\u201d he wrote.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis sport was made on fights. We should have more fights. I like fights,\u201d another tweet said in contrast.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">That wasn\u2019t a fight it was an assault. The other driver can barely move in there<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Mike in Jax (@bourquin_mike) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/bourquin_mike\/status\/1573764017096736768?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 24, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Some also saw a comparison with NASCAR driver Clint Bowyer\u2019s punchout against Ryan Newman after the All-Star Race in 2019.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">He took lessons from Bowyer <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/lo4hpBXt5T\">pic.twitter.com\/lo4hpBXt5T<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Joshua A4lami (@joshua_afolami) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/joshua_afolami\/status\/1573762467712442374?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 24, 2022<\/p>\n<p><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NASCAR driver Andrew Grady attacked opponent Davey Callihan through the window of Callihan\u2019s car after an accident knocked both drivers out of a race at Martinsville Speedway in Virginia on Saturday. Grady claimed that Callihan flipped him off before the altercation, while his opponent denied the action. We&#8217;ve got tempers boiling over at @MartinsvilleSwy Andrew &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1657275,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1657273","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1657273","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1657273"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1657273\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1657275"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1657273"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1657273"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1657273"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}