It seems the most heated action at the Homestead-Miami Speedway happened after the Cup Series race concluded on Sunday. On the recent episode of Actions Detrimental, Denny Hamlin narrated how Richard Childress went bonkers and even damaged a car when a police escort was leading the Joe Gibbs Racing cars away from the race track. Fans also were left frustrated with Childress’ unruly behavior.
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Hamlin was part of the five-car escort, riding along with his podcast co-host Jared Allen, who had taken the wheel of their car. They were at the tail end of the row, a not-so-easy task. It was their responsibility to make sure that they did not allow gaps through which random cars could enter and break the file. This was when Childress barged in out of nowhere.
“Richard Childress was not part of this escort. He was part of the vehicles that needed to move out. The police got him to move out of the way,” narrated Hamlin.
“Well, somebody within Joe Gibbs Racing didn’t leave a gap. And Richard says, ‘Well, I’m joining this escort. Whether you guys like it or not’,” he added.
Childress had no business trying to muscle his car in between a police escort. The worst part was that he ran into one of the JGR cars.
Still in disbelief, Hamlin continued, “What did Richard Childress do? He hung a left. Destroyed the side of the car. He did. He turned left. I witnessed it. We were right behind it. I’m like, ‘Oh my god. Did he just? He did.'”
The Joe Gibbs Racing car in front of Hamlin’s car sustained damage, leaving everyone , including Hamlin, perplexed and speechless. This behavior from Childress, with cops present, had fans fuming on social media.
“No wonder RCR sucks a** so much… It’s bc Richard Childress is out here needing to pay fees and premiums for committing vehicular terrorism on public roads,” commented a fan.
Rcr is out here committing safety violations ☠️
— Cloudy341blade (@Cloudy341Blade) March 25, 2025
This frustrated fan chimed in, “The more I hear about Childress, the less I like him,” while another added, “That checks out. RC almost ran my dad over in the campgrounds at Pocono last year in his golf cart.”
Childress is a NASCAR veteran, having raced from the 1960s to the ’80s, before beginning his stint as a team owner. And this is not the image he would have hoped to earn after being in and around racing for decades.
One fan thought that the team owner was still stuck in the past when he had a larger sway in NASCAR. They said, “RC still wants to pretend he was in the 1990s and still has [Dale] Earnhardt driving the car and being dominant when those days are way behind him.”
Another stinging comment followed, “That’s where Austin Dillon [is] learning how to wreck people.” Dillon is Childress’s grandson and is quite infamous for wrecking his fellow competitors out of the blue.
The Childress family has some serious damage control to do after this incident. It remains to be seen whether the efforts at rebranding Richard Childress Racing will help repair the personal images of the family members.
