Imagine a NASCAR race but set it back in the 80s or the 90s. Now, the scene is, the race leader gets wrecked by the car behind him, taking both of them out in the very last lap. At this moment, you wouldn’t be wrong to predict a massive brawl between the drivers and it’s only fair. However, that didn’t happen between Tyler Reddick and Chase Briscoe, something that dumbfounded Dale Earnhardt Jr, among others.

In the recent NASCAR race at Bristol, Reddick was wrecked by Briscoe in the very last lap as Kyle Busch, the car in third, swept in to win the race. Yet, the two drivers, quite surprisingly, talked it out with a smile on their faces.

But the people around them weren’t exactly rocking smiles. After all, they’re expecting, as are many people sitting in their seats and behind the screen, for all hell to break loose, somebody to throw a punch or at least show a birdie.

Yet none of that happened, and it was the out-of-place expressions of people surrounding the two drivers that Dale Jr. found hilarious.

“Y’all see the crew guys in background during Briscoe/Reddick discussion? don’t think they were feeling it,” he tweeted.

Dale Earnhardt Jr feels rivalries are good for NASCAR

In an interview from last year, Dale Earnhardt Jr spoke about the memorable rivalries from back in the day. “The rivalries that I remember, they lasted sometimes for years,” he said.

“The rivalries that we have had over the last couple of decades tend to be shorter.”

Dale Jr described how the current drivers don’t necessarily become friends, that they still “dislike the hell out of each other“, but the rivalry doesn’t evolve to the racetrack as it did years ago.

“In those moments we get to really learn about their instincts and the real personality behind the driver. That’s kind of fun,” Earnhardt Jr. said.

“I think it’s good.”

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