Ty Norris Explains His Role in 2013 NASCAR Scandal

[Music] now mwr obviously we the the the big uh cons conspiracy what do you call that well when you think about the situation at richmond which one yeah the richmond and the team orders and stuff that ultimately led to your suspension yeah i'm i'm curious ultimately to know if you felt like the suspension was just and fair but what i want to know is like you know your perspective your vantage point leading up to it so um i'm actually glad you brought that up i i i've avoided talking about it too much but um there were three or four things going on at the same time that were seemed connected that were not connected and if they were connected it would have been a lot cleaner and um i would say the same thing i said to mike helton and those guys when i sat down on the means that they were like tell me what happened at richmond i'm like which part because you're gonna have to talk to each different group because if you listen to the radio and you watch what happened it wasn't like we all had all this planned out so i'll tell you exactly what i did what i did was knowing the situation going into the the race watching the points and seeing how everybody was moving maneuvering around and i saw things that were going on with one particular company that i thought was really weird and i mean i thought there was one driver in the hendrick group that was acted like he was blown up all day and getting out of the gas at start finish line i'm like that's weird and then you start watching all the stuff and then you see who's up there on the spotter stand and tapping on this guy and you see you know there's all the all the majors are all sitting up there and like they're trying to like work out maneuver everything and you see it it's all year long and so i'm sitting there and caution came out with however many laps to go and i'm spotting for brian vickers now i've got channel two nascar mrn channel one and a digital radio i'm listening to i got all these voices in my head and and i'm and so everybody's like oh you're rolling the 15 i i couldn't get to it if i wanted to so i'm sitting there here's what happened caution comes out we're sitting there leaders come down pit road there's like six seven laps to go and i'm like we're a lap down and we take the wave around with ryan vickers so right when they're coming to to come around the corner we take the wave around with brian and i see logano is in front of us and then as soon as i see him coming around i look up at the scoreboard and it says jeff gordon in by one point logano out by one point and i'm like well i need legano had two wins and if he is his two wins drops to 11th he makes he makes the playoffs and truex gets knocked out so i'm like it's a one point difference and i'm like well how is the 22 in front of us but behind us on the rundown and it all happened while we were waving around and i looked at the scoreboard and i saw what was going on i'm like oh he was two laps down coming to one down logano was and we were two to one i'm like we need to get that lap back and so i'm like because i don't know who he's racing i don't have time to go i wonder who he's racing this lap i didn't have time so we were coming around going into turn one to catch the back of the field i'm like brian i need you to pit he's like what yeah i'm like i need you to pit i need your pit right now and he was like i don't understand well by this time the leaders now are going in turn three you know how late the green drops in the middle of three and four and i'm like green flag green flag but i need you to pit and he's like i don't understand i have a tire going on what's going on and i was just like i need you pit right now for a point and when i said that it was like the swat team was pointed all the red lasers were all my throat my heart my brain and it was brain matter everywhere yeah and so he was like oh okay so then he comes down and and it's just it's a mess and so after the race i'm like and so i was like holy we pulled it off and then i got approached by another owner who came over and said hey what i you know that just worked didn't it worked really well didn't i looked at him and i'm like what are you talking about now later found out what they were doing all this was going on up there all maneuvering around that same freaking point and i knew that i had said it on radio and i knew that was bad news so i hated that not everybody got in trouble yeah just y'all but i got slaughtered i got filleted i got i watch television i'm like i'm the only guy in the world who's ever i'm like i was pissed and but the but but michael and rob came to me and they were like shut up just shut up and just let it go and and it was hard for me because it was it was there was a lot and it was personal attacks and it was i mean it was professional attacks and personal attacks and i was watching ryan mcgee going marty smith sitting there like ty norris never worked in this garage again he'll never be around this garage again and i'm like you have no freaking idea what all was going on and and i thought when some of the other tapes came out i'm like i see everybody's going to get in trouble i was the only one so i'm going to tell you this i applauded as mad as i was and still mad as i am about it for a company nascar had to do something it was out of control and i'm i'm people i watch people during the season pay for with tires for a guy to come off the race track because their guy had trouble go pit pit pit pit now i'm gonna give you you know give you tires and like there was so much conversation going on about what they could do for each other it had to end as mad as i was that i was the poster boy for it you know it it had to end i was more mad that they gave jeff the the spot like they literally made a spot made a spot for a guy yes yeah i was like what in the hell are we doing this is like not the way to clean this up it's like making this whole problem worse yeah it definitely it like they didn't know what to do right and so what i was i knew they were going to come down hard on me and i knew that others weren't going to calm down as hard on them because they need drivers right they need teams they don't really necessarily need guys like me and so i have never felt the cold shoulder of the entire industry like i did and i wanted i never wanted to walk in that garage because i never want to be around again i got really bitter and i'm like i'll just i'll go work another sport i'll go i'll go dig a ditch i'll go i'll be a sports writer i don't give what i do but i'm never doing and because i i wanted to i wanted to come out and just my back to my point they were mean to me i'm going to be meaner to you you bet you got you got me i wait to what i come out with and and i've i finally got myself zenned out and i just said have you become this with respect yeah treat it with respect um i made a mistake stand up yeah i i said it out loud take it and take it in the jaw and keep on moving and there are a lot of people at nascar including mr frank jim france who pulled me off to the side at the banquet and he said son you're gonna be okay just move on past it and if i didn't have conversations like that i probably would you know i don't know that i'd been back [Music] life is best lived in motion and that's why tire pros gets you ready for all your driving adventures whether it's along corners and curves across city and state lines because we're more than just tires we're auto care too tire pros so you can focus on the road ahead [Music]

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Length: 8min 9sec (489 seconds)

Published: Sat Jun 05 2021