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Kaden Honeycutt, Brandon Jones furious with Gio Ruggiero after brutal wreck at Texas

JHby: Jonathan Howard05/03/25Jondean25
Kaden Honeycutt Brandon Jones Gio Ruggiero NASCAR
Screenshot credit: NASCAR Trucks via X.com

Following a wreck with Gio Ruggiero early in the NASCAR Truck Series race at Texas, Kaden Honeycutt and Brandon Jones are not happy. Jones went as far as to call his part-time truck schedule a “waste of time.”

Kaden Honeycutt and Brandon Jones both took hard hits as a result of Gio Ruggiero’s wreck. The 17 truck dipped into the grass coming out of the turn and it completely ripped the left front off the truck. Then, Ruggiero was bounced back onto the track and caused more damage.

As a result, Honeycutt and Jones are both out of the race. Ruggiero is as well. A lot of torn up trucks.

“I wish I’m uh – I don’t know what to say. That kid [Gio Ruggiero] did it one time in the first stage, because we were in the freaking first stage, and he clipped the grass and he learned his lesson,” Honeycutt told Bob Pockrass of FOX Sports about the wreck with Gio Ruggiero. “Like, I don’t understand what we’re doing. We’re lap 20 of a freaking stage, there’s 167 laps in this race, and we’re all struggling forhandling, every single one of us. We were all free, tight and everyone’s just being so aggressive, and there’s no reason for it.

“I don’t understand it. That kid has way more awareness than that, and I expect more. So, I’m pissed because this is my home race. Like, this is our 10th year as a company and we got wrecked out on lap freaking 30 of a kid hitting the grass in the infield and destroying a race truck. So, I’m not very happy about it, but I’ll cool off and go to Kansas. I just, I can’t believe it. I’ve never seen something like that and destroy so many trucks and a good one like ours.”

Brandon Jones echoed many of the same sentiments. The thing is, Jones is Gio Ruggiero’s teammate at Tricon Garage in these races. He has to feel like he has no teammates after the wreck today.

“It was a pretty big lick. I’m good. Man, these races are becoming a big waste of time,” Jones said via Pockrass. “I really wanted to come just to go win these races, and this was a really important one for me this weekend because now we’ve rained everything out and I wanted laps for tomorrow before the Xfinity race. … It’s just time and time again I keep seeing dumb moves, right? Like that was pretty rookie move I think to drive into the grass like that.”

Well, Gio Ruggiero is a rookie. So, that would add up, right? Jokes aside, Ruggiero made a mistake, and then he made it again. He went through the grass once before the wreck happened – for whatever reason, he tried it a second time. That’s the thing about mistakes: doubling down is usually when you get in real trouble.

Those are three fast trucks out of this race. Who will take advantage and win this race tonight?