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Burt Myers, Team Amerivet continue bizarre feud with Ricky Stenhouse Jr. after Daytona 500 wreck

JHby:Jonathan Howard•02/17/25•

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Ricky Stenhouse Jr. Daytona
Mandatory Credit: Peter Casey-Imagn Images

Even though the Busch Light Clash was two weeks ago, Team Amerivet is not forgetting their feud with Ricky Stenhouse Jr. During the Clash at Bowman Gray, Burt Myers and Stenhouse had an on-track incident and since then, the part-time NASCAR team had held a grudge.

If you go to the Team Amerivet X/Twitter page, you will see that the banner photo is of the Burt Myers and Ricky Stenhouse Jr. contact. Interestingly enough, replay more or less showed that Myers came down too early onto Stenhouse.

After Stenhouse’s wreck towards the end of the Daytona 500, Amerivet was at it again. This time they posted, “Who’s clearing themselves now?” and tagged the Hyak Motorsports driver.

Team Amerivet didn’t even try to qualify for the Daytona 500 this season. Instead, they are playing up a minor racing incident that happened in the preseason exhibition. It is puzzling as to why they would want to continue this line of attack on Ricky Stenhouse Jr. at this point.

To his credit, Stenhouse has not backed down. He replied, “Someone actually in the Daytona 500 welcome to come sometime.”

I’m not entirely sure that Burt Myers is behind this as well. It’s to be seen whether Amerivet is trying to drive up social media engagement or if this is a genuine beef. Either way, it is starting to grow a bit stale as the NASCAR Cup prepares for Atlanta this week.

Besides, Ricky Stenhouse Jr. has more to worry about than a team that might not make another start for the rest of the 2025 season.

Ricky Stenhouse Jr. caught up with Joey Logano late

As the race started to get to the nitty gritty, cars were jostling for position. Ricky Stenhouse Jr., as usual, found himself near the front of yet another Daytona race. But he ended up going home with a wrecked race car.

Stenhouse made a move to take a spot at the front of the middle lane. Joey Logano more or less put himself in that spot a split second before. The two made contact with the rear bumper of Stenhouse and front bumper of Logano making contact.

At that point, Logano didn’t back out of the gas fearing a stack up behind him. Stenhouse ended up turned, both cars wrecked and they collected Kyle Busch and others in the process as well.

It appears that the drivers involved, who would know a lot more than me, are blaming Logano. Ricky Stenhouse Jr. made a bold move and it didn’t pay off. That is how superspeedway racing can go at times.