Kyle Larson gives savage response to Ryan Blaney calling him NASCAR's 'golden boy' at Indy
Kyle Larson won the Brickyard 400 at Indianapolis with a couple bizarre occurrences that aided him in the final stage, and the NASCAR driver was quick to celebrate on Twitter on Sunday evening.
In fact, Larson even took the opportunity to dunk on one of the drivers he slipped by for the win.
After Ryan Blaney blew a gasket over Larson taking advantage of Brad Keselowski running out of fuel right after the race went green in overtime, calling Larson NASCAR’s “f****** golden boy,” Larson quote-tweeted that snippet and added his own short but oh-so-sweet message.
The incident with Kyle Larson on the restart occurred after Kyle Busch contacted Denny Hamlin and wrecked with three laps to go, sending the race to overtime.
Keselowski had stayed out for a long time and was running low on fuel but opted to try to stretch his remaining gas into the overtime period.
He ran out of fuel right as the race was about to go green.
Keselowski was at the bottom of the track, with Blaney on the outside in P2. Larson was to the inside in P3, behind Keselowski. When Keselowski veered off to pit road to refuel after the race went green again, Larson simply slipped up into his spot and took the lead.
The race would go to a double overtime moments later following a big wreck in the middle of the pack, leaving Larson in perfect position to take the win.
Blaney was fuming on his team’s radio.
“There’s no way they should’ve let that go green,” he said, according to Davey Segal of Sirius XM. “That’s ridiculous. They just GAVE it to him (Kyle Larson). It’s f*cking over, I’m on the top. I ain’t gonna win from the top. Gave it to f*cking golden boy. Son of a b*tch.”
NASCAR later addressed the restart situation, saying they’d do the same thing again if they had to.
“So we had already gone through the choose process, so we were coming to green when the 6 pulled off, which allowed the 5 to pull up, which transferred the control vehicle to the 12,” NASCAR executive vice president of competition Elton Sawyer said. “And this all happens fairly quick there. So hindsight, I think we still let it play out the way it did. We’ll discuss that more. If we had thrown the caution hypothetically we wouldn’t have gone through a choose process again. The 12 would have been the control vehicle, but he wouldn’t have got lane choice. That’s the way the rule’s written.”
As it played out, Kyle Larson took the win over Tyler Reddick under caution. Then he had the last laugh of the day on Twitter.