Bubba Wallace: "Dillon's Penalty Comes Down to Retaliation"

are you are you comfortable knowing where the line is in terms of what you can and can't do at the end of these races and I guess if there hadn't been this line drawn or whatever it is um how would the rest of the season or the future played out in terms of people you know trying things to to get a win yeah I mean um I think just growing up right um it took me it takes me back to uh the summer shootout um and post is back there post knows how many fights I've been in and and whatnot when I was a kid and Wrecking people and you eventually learn from that and know that that's not right and then you start to you try to turn over a clean slate and uh you you try to race with a lot of respect and uh I know homeboy is probably tired of getting talked about but I got wrecked twice in two weeks by him and Legend cars and I told him hey man we don't race like that like I know I haven't been here in 5 years but we don't we don't do that and he's like no the whole field does that so learn how to do it and I'm like holy that's not the right answer and um and then you see stuff like that on Sundays you know it's like yall do it there and it's like yeah you got a point um but you know if I knew where I was at fourth or fifth um and you know my emotions coming off a two coming to the Checker I was like he may get him but thank God Joey's leading okay thinking about points here cool Joey's leading don't know if he's safe oh he hit him oh he spun him okay sweet then he's going to win wow that's where we are that was my range of emotions and um you know at the bottom line I think you grow up racing going through your wrecks finally stop wrecking start winning start running competitive and with respect um and I said it after the race uh you know people are going to say what does Bubba Wallace have to say anything about respect and they're going to bring up from two years ago because they live in the past but um you know when you feel like you're wronged in the sport and it's so hard you you fight your ass off each and every lap every minute every hour of the race and someone just feels like they don't respect it you retaliate um you know the officials upstairs will say every incident is different no it's not it's retaliation that is all it is it is retaliation you feel like you're wronged and you and it's a knee-jerk reaction I'm not saying that it's right that's just what happens something is ripped away from you so you're going to rip it away from them like you want to fight like that okay then here we go um and and so it's it's comes down to retaliation and I I I don't know I didn't read the article but Denny's hit was the hardest hit in the next chin car is that's correct I'm sorry okay oh oh oh okay okay okay okay damn I had some ammo for that then never mind uh anyways next question but yeah that's that's um that's that's what it is but from those moments you mature and you grow and you know where the line is I for me would I have made that that move I would have tried my hardest to get to the 22 without spinning him but then that was it that's it LO I lost throw in the towel that's it bob bob Powers Fox Bo you got suspended for retaliation hook did you feel like the suspension was warranted here uh retaliation is retaliation so if we're going to set the line there then yeah um but this was I mean it right right so my myself and Chase were middle of the race um um and so this one this one was different in the same category as retaliation so um I think you know not being a playoff eligible win uh we go through the points and the money stuff it's somewhat Nets out the same kinda kinda uh Jerry Jerry Jordan kicking the tires that at a couple are you okay with NASCAR now I mean how was this process started because of the the desire to whatever you have to do to make the playoffs it started it starts at Daytona media day what will you do to win a race and whose fault is that the system's fault right they they created this um you know this system to where you put it all on the line but at the same time you know we always say will you wreck your mother to win of course you know yeah yeah yeah no you wouldn't no I mean um I I wouldn't um it's you you you do everything in your power under the respectful line uh to win the race now people want to relate um Lano and Truex at Martinsville the same as what happened at Richmond who are these people like he moved him out of the way knocked him up the groove and they drag race to the line yeah he may have plowed him but he didn't spin him out and wreck him and didn't give him a chance to finish home boy finish second where Trix messed up they shouldn't let him get to his back bumper kept him on the outside um so it's it's it's nuts how we can relate this to that to that to this and um it's I don't know I mean you you have to you just have to remember where you came from and and and what it took to get here and all the things you had to go through um and earn the respect of uh of each other I remember just getting to the cup level and or getting to the truck level right and and you were raced harder because you're a rookie and then things change you know you start to gain the respect of your peers you move up to xinity the cycle resets then you get to Cup and it's resets again and you have to earn and respect your way uh in the cup level because it at the end of the day it's a self- policing field um and so if if the officials don't take care of you we know how to take care of you second is there enough time in 350 ft from where when he spins Joey obviously deliberate we know that mhm to calculate taking out Denny or is that a victim of circumstances because Denny was normal line goes up the track and they make contact 350 ft I I gpsed it on on on on mapping it's pretty good so is there enough time for you to process he beat you at your own game love that um so it's right you can never walk in somebody else's shoes and and relive that moment um but I I would assume he went in there and hit him and you know obviously checked up to figure out where he was going and then his spotter is just screaming at him to hook him and wreck him so it's like it it's like you almost forgot about the 11 you were out there on an island you're like okay got him out of the way oh I messed up and and take out the 22 or the 11 so I think it's a little bit of knowing where your surroundings are forgetting about the car behind and then reacting to that so I think yeah it's possible