{"id":23514,"date":"2020-02-28T14:45:08","date_gmt":"2020-02-28T19:45:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/?p=23514"},"modified":"2020-02-28T14:45:08","modified_gmt":"2020-02-28T19:45:08","slug":"snider-not-backing-down-from-conflict-with-gragson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/2020\/02\/28\/snider-not-backing-down-from-conflict-with-gragson\/","title":{"rendered":"Snider not backing down from conflict with Gragson"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-23515\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/files\/2020\/02\/gragsonsnider.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"372\" height=\"234\" srcset=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/files\/2020\/02\/gragsonsnider.jpg 372w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/files\/2020\/02\/gragsonsnider-300x189.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 372px) 100vw, 372px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Last weekend at Las Vegas, Noah Gragson driving the No. 9 Chevrolet made contact with Myatt Snider sending him for a spin.<\/p>\n<p>Appearing on SiriusXM on Wednesday, Snider spoke about the incident in detail.<\/p>\n<p>Snider discussed the incident Wednesday on SiriusXM NASCAR Radio\u2019s \u201cTradin\u2019 Paint\u201d and where things stand between the two drivers.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt, to me, just seemed like some impatience on Noah\u2019s part,\u201d Snider said. \u201cI had gotten into a rut and was trying to figure out how to make the car faster but at that point in time, I didn\u2019t. So he was running me down and he actually had a run on me going to the frontstretch.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo I was, \u2018Okay, he\u2019s going to go by me.\u2019 Then I felt a little yoink in the left rear quarter and around I was going. It\u2019s kind of unfortunate it had to go down that way, that\u2019s not racing to me. But I\u2019m a big believer in karma and what goes around, comes around. We\u2019ll be performing at our best over these next couple of weeks and I\u2019m not worried about it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The two drivers have not talked since Sunday&#8217;s race and is prepared to return the favor if necessary.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m the kind of guy that believes in racing people how you\u2019re raced,\u201d Snider said. \u201cI\u2019m not going to take any kind of stuff like that. If (Gragson) wants to send that kind of message early, then game on.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Gragson had a different take on the incident.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was just some hard racing between the two of us and we got into each other, so I think we both can look forward to the next couple of races and stay out of each other\u2019s ways,\u201d Gragson said. \u201cI think we\u2019re both at fault. It was a long race, none of us were going to give and we\u2019re going to go on to California and run as good as possible and do as good as we can.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Gragson attempted to speak with Snider following the race but video showed the latter walking away.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI told (Myatt) let\u2019s play rock, paper, scissors,\u201d Gragson quipped in part on SiriusXM NASCAR Radio. \u201cI went with rock and he still hasn\u2019t gotten back to me if he wants scissors, paper or rock.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Gragson began the season with a win at Daytona and finished fourth at Las Vegas. Snider won the Daytona pole but had to settle for a 33rd place finish and a 16th place run at Las Vegas. Snider is driving part-time in the No. 21 car at Richard Childress Racing but will be racing at Auto Club Speedway for RSS Racing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last weekend at Las Vegas, Noah Gragson driving the No. 9 Chevrolet made contact with Myatt Snider sending him for a spin. Appearing on SiriusXM on Wednesday, Snider spoke about the incident in detail. Snider discussed the incident Wednesday on SiriusXM NASCAR Radio\u2019s \u201cTradin\u2019 Paint\u201d and where things stand between the two drivers. \u201cIt, to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":23515,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,788],"tags":[378,1033,1006],"coauthors":[675],"class_list":{"0":"post-23514","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-xfinity","8":"category-news","9":"tag-las-vegas-motor-speedway","10":"tag-myatt-snider","11":"tag-noah-gragson"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23514","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23514"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23514\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23515"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23514"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23514"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23514"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=23514"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}