Watch As Two NASCAR Drivers Get Into A Post-Race Brawl

NASCAR is not a form of motorsport where any punches are pulled, on or off track. It involves big, noisy cars racing at high speeds in close quarters, and inevitably, that’s going to lead to some incidents.

It’s not uncommon for those incidents to spill off the track and into the paddock, which is exactly what happened after this weekend’s All-Star Race, a non-championship exhibition event taking place at the historic North Wilkesboro Speedway in North Carolina.

On just the second lap of the 200-lap race, JTD Daugherty Racing’s Ricky Stenhouse Jr and Richard Childress Racing’s Kyle Busch came together. Busch nudged a slower Stenhouse from behind, possibly in response to a move a lap earlier that saw Busch graze the wall. It sent Stenhouse firmly into the wall and resulted in race-ending damage. After the race, Busch, who ultimately finished 10th, returned to his team’s trailer to find an irate Stenhouse waiting for him.

Footage captured by NASCAR news site Toby Christie shows the pair squaring up to one another. While it’s a little difficult to hear the exchange over the post-race fireworks, the gist is that Stenhouse squarely placed the blame on Busch for the on-track tussle, while Busch protested his innocence, calling it a racing incident.

The encounter culminates in Stenhouse catching Busch unawares with a sucker punch to the side of the face, at which point all hell breaks loose. While various members of both teams attempt to break up the fight, others escalate things into a full-on, Anchorman-style brawl between the two opposing sides.

Stenhouse Jr’s father gets involved, landing further blows on Busch who, at one point, is sent flying backwards into a rope barrier. Things are over pretty quickly as the apparent testosterone overload subsides, leaving members of both teams firing verbal warnings at one another.

It’s not clear if either driver or any of the team members will face any consequences for the brawl, but despite this looking like a fairly shocking encounter, it’s not all that unusual in the often rough-and-ready world of NASCAR. Either way, should there be a second season of NASCAR: Full Speed, the series’ Drive To Survive-style documentary, we’re sure the producers will have a field day with this one.