Trackhouse Racing driver Ross Chastain has certainly garnered headlines and attention this season, both for his career-first NASCAR Cup Series victories and for his aggressive moves on track. Incidents with various drivers, including fellow championship contender Denny Hamlin, have been in the spotlight throughout the season.
Chastain fully acknowledged that navigating his championship hopes may depend on the way he handles potential “payback” on the track. He insisted Thursday that he wasn’t focusing on that.
“I don’t actually keep up with what people are saying,” Chastain said. “And then on track, I know who’s around me and I know obviously every situation and every scenario that’s happened this year, so you can tell right away if a car is driven aggressively toward me or not.
“Off-track, I probably don’t do a good enough job keeping up with the words being said.
“I’ve had a lot of opinions given to me and a lot of advice, and I truly believe it’s all with the right intentions,” Chastain continued. “But honestly, my iPhone is out of storage space and can’t take any more else, it has no more storage. I’m kind of that way too. There’s a lot that just kind of goes in one ear and out the other, for better or worse.
“But I do take everybody’s opinion and make my own, inform my own thought. I’m human, I’m going to make mistakes, I’m going to do the exact opposite of what everyone says, even though their way was better. And sometimes it’s on purpose, and sometimes it’s not.”
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