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Taylor Gray 'pissed off' with Rajah Caruth after massive wreck and flip at Daytona

JHby: Jonathan Howard02/17/24Jondean25
Taylor Gray Flip Daytona
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The end of the Fresh From Florida 250 was wild as almost the entire field was caught up in a wreck, and Taylor Gray went in the air and flipped over. Thankfully, Gray landed with the wheels under his truck, but it was a scary moment to end an ugly NASCAR race.

No one wants to see a wreck like this at the end of a race that had so many incidents. In total, the caution flag came out 12 times over the course of the 250-mile race. There were moments that were understandable and some that were not.

From Taylor Gray’s perspective, it was a bad move from Rajah Caruth that caused that final wreck. He was more than a little upset about the incident as he would have secured a top-5 finish in the season opener had it not happened.

Instead, Gray went home P19.

“Looking at a replay, it looked like, I don’t really know what,” Gray said after leaving the care center. “Really, I like Rajah a lot, I just don’t know what he’s doing. I mean look at the replay, there’s no hole to get in. The 91 is obviously still at his right front and I don’t know if he’s trying to stall the lane or misjudged it or what.

“He just got the 91 in the left rear and you guys saw from there, right? I don’t know who hit me or who flipped me over or anything like that. … I’m pissed off and uh, I don’t know.”

A tough night in the Truck Series ends with a tough hit for Gray.

Taylor Gray not the only driver upset at Truck Series

When asked what he thought about the racing tonight, and how he feels heading to Atlanta, another drafting track, Taylor Gray didn’t give a comment. However, there were other drivers who put in their two cents.

Dean Thompson, Ben Rhodes, and others who came through the care center expressed how confusing it was to see drivers pushing so aggressively. NASCAR had a drivers meeting with the Truck Series drivers to let them know they needed to race clean and put on a good show.

That did not happen.

Too many pushes, pushing too much, pushing in the wrong part of the track – it all happened. Thompson noted that at the end of the day, the Truck Series is a development series. There is a reason why NASCAR doesn’t allow drivers to lock bumpers on drafting tracks.

Taylor Gray is going home upset. Nick Sanchez, on the other hand, won the race, claiming his first Truck Series win and first NASCAR National Series win.