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Austin Hill takes shot at Sam Mayer over teammate dispute at Bristol: 'We can handle it like men'

JHby:Jonathan Howard•09/23/23•

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Austin Hill
Mandatory Credit: Mike Dinovo-USA TODAY Sports

Last week at Bristol, Austin Hill and Sam Mayer both got into incidents with their own teammates on the track. Hill was wrecked by Sheldon Creed, his RCR teammate. Meanwhile, Mayer saw his NASCAR race end after contact with Josh Berry. Brandon Jones was also involved in that making it a JR Motorsports trifecta.

Before he took to the track for qualifying, Austin Hill made it known, he’s not like Sam Mayer. When it comes to on-track incidents like last week, no big deal. Hill and Creed are buddies on and off the track and they’ve already worked past it.

Mayer made a strange comment about Berry not making a “veteran” move on the track. It caused a bit of controversy and people wonder if the teammates even like one another.

Austin Hill and his teammate – just fine.

“You’re heated after these races, playoff are here so intensity’s high,” Hill said to the NBC broadcast. “You’re going to be mad about situations, but Sheldon and I are really good friends off the racetrack. We hang out on Sundays a lot of the times after a race weekend. So we’re good. We had a really nice chat on Monday kind of just talked about the situation on things he saw, things I saw on what happened and what we can do to be better going forward. Love having him as a teammate, no hard feelings nothing like that. We’re good man, I promise you that.”

He finished by saying, “We’re good. We can handle it like men… We’re not Sam Mayer by any means.”

NASCAR cut off that Mayer comment in the video below, but it was loud and clear on TV.

Austin Hill qualifies ahead of Sam Mayer

In case you want to see any action between Austin Hill and Sam Mayer, you are in luck. The two are going to start today’s race very close to one another. In fact, we might see them racing hard throughout the afternoon’s race on Saturday.

Justin Allgaier won the pole award for qualifying. He was followed by Trevor Bayne, Cole Custer, Josh Berry, Austin Hill, and Sam Mayer. That means the 21 and 1 are going to be on Row 3 to begin this Xfinity Series race.

Hill is a favorite for the Xfinity Series championship. His RCR team has been great on superspeedways and these intermediate tracks. He’s aggressive at times, but it has paid off for the most part. Four wins on the year and a slew of top-5s, Hill has taken a huge step forward this season.

Never afraid to speak his mind, or let his hands do the talking, Austin Hill is probably fine talking all the smack he wants. I’m not sure anyone is going to get in his face about it, friend or foe.