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NASCAR Truck Series driver Matt Mills was hospitalized after he appeared to be wrecked intentionally during Saturday’s race at Homestead-Miami Speedway.
Mills’ truck hit the wall and caught fire after he was bumped by Conner Jones.
Mills was able to get out of the truck on his own, but his Niece Motorsports team said in a statement Saturday evening that he would be hospitalized overnight for observation.
In heavily bleeped audio Fox Sports 1 captured from his team radio, Jones was irate referenced something going on “all year” and that he was “tired of it.”
NASCAR ended up penalizing Jones two laps for reckless driving after the crash.
Jones, 18, referenced past incidents from Mills in a statement posted to social media after the race. Saturday’s race was his 12th of the season while Mills has raced full-time this year in 21 races.
NASCAR went before a federal judge Wednesday and asked for the antitrust suit filed against the stock car series to be dismissed. Should it proceed, NASCAR asked that the two teams suing be ordered to post a bond to cover fees they would not be legally owed if they lose the case.
NASCAR also asked U.S. District Judge Kenneth Bell of the Western District of North Carolina to dismiss chairman Jim France as a defendant in the suit filed by 23XI Racing, a team co-owned by NBA Hall of Famer Michael Jordan, and Front Row Motorsports, which is owned by entrepreneur Bob Jenkins.
Bell promised a fast ruling but indicated he was unlikely to dismiss the suit when he closed the 90-minute hearing by saying “this case is going to be tried this year, and deserves to be tried this year.”
The calendar he set when he received the case last month calls for a December trial.