Melee mars Chevrolet 400

Then he made what must have seemed like a wrong turn into the wrong neighborhood of Richmond International Raceway, finding himself and his car the subject of a moblike confrontation by Kevin Harvick’s team.

“I haven’t seen anything like that in 28 years of racing,” Rudd said of the scene NASCAR officials rebuked as a “bench-clearing mentality.”

“It was just totally crazy,” Rudd said.

The feud started with less than nine laps to go in the Chevrolet 400, when Rudd was trailing Harvick into the first turn and both were trying to catch Ryan Newman, who was already starting to pull away.

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