WATCH: Bubba Wallace gets physical with Kyle Larson after NASCAR wreck

NASCAR saw a heavy dose of drama on the track and outside of the cars both on Sunday, as Bubba Wallace began shoving Kyle Larson after a wreck. On the track during Stage 2 of the South Point 400 on Sunday, Larson made an aggressive pass on the inside to bring the cars three-wide as he tried to get by Wallace.

Wallace felt that Larson didn’t fully clear him before crowding him up the racetrack and into the wall and didn’t concede position — leading to Wallace going into the wall and bouncing back into Larson. Larson took the contact and drove off the track towards the inside, while Wallace’s car veered directly into his back side and spun both drivers out.

Wallace and Larson fully wrecked into the wall as a result, and NASCAR playoff driver Christopher Bell was an unfortunate participant in their wreck.

Kyle Larson hits Bubba Wallace.

Wallace spins him out, and #NASCARPlayoffs driver Christopher Bell is involved! pic.twitter.com/TlxcEV5T6q

— NASCAR on NBC (@NASCARonNBC) October 16, 2022

Immediately after the drivers got out of their vehicles on the field in the middle of the track, Wallace approached Larson with visible anger and proceeded to let him know what he thought about the accident. Wallace dropped his own helmet and appeared to try to knock Larson’s from his hands in order to start a fight, instead shoving Larson multiple times when he wouldn’t return the pushes.

Bubba Wallace is NOT HAPPY with Kyle Larson.

Some pushes and shoves after they wreck. #NASCAR pic.twitter.com/aaAn0idrJp

— NASCAR on NBC (@NASCARonNBC) October 16, 2022

Both drivers walked away from the altercation without it escalating, but it was clear on the field that Wallace felt Larson was the reason for all that transpired.

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After the race, Larson’s crew chief said “if that wasn’t retaliation, I don’t know what was,” in regards to Wallace veering across the track and into Larson’s bumper. Multiple NASCAR analysts and fans took to social media to claim that Wallace deliberately wrecked Larson in retaliation for the aggressive driving — something that Wallace immediately called false in an interview afterwards.

“Cliff [Larson’s crew chief] is smart enough to know how easy these cars break. When you get shoved in the fence, deliberately like he did, trying to force me to lift — steering was gone. Just so happened to be there,” said Wallace.

According to Wallace the move was not a deliberate one by him, although Larson’s was deliberate to start it all. Wallace claims his car lost steering which led to him rushing across the track into him.