“I Have No Tolerance for Pure Stupidity” – Matt DiBenedetto Threatens Fellow NASCAR Drivers After Nashville Wreck

With 24 to go in the NASCAR Truck Series race at Nashville, Matt DiBenedetto found himself in a situation from which he came out worst. His race was over after a wreck involving three other trucks.

And Matty D was mad. Really mad.

“Stupidity,” was the word he chose to describe the whole ordeal by.

“I don’t know what goes through somebody’s mind to go, I’m going to go four-wide on the bottom on entry to [Turn] 3, where you have an angle straight at all of us, and you take out some good trucks,” he said in a post-race interview about the wreck. “I have no idea what some of the guys are thinking. To be honest, I don’t even have an answer.”

“You know some of these guys race with such disrespect, I got fenced earlier in the race by the #42, for no reason, and he does that, it’s like, use your head.”

DiBenedetto was so mad that he suggested he’ll take extreme measures next time he’s in such a situation again.

“Just start crashing, just wreck ’em,” he said.

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“There’s no way you can deal with that other than being like, You know you can race everybody else in the field however they want, that’s fine, but I have no tolerance for pure stupidity,” the driver added.

Matt DiBenedetto has more clarity at this stage of his career

In a recent interview, Matt DiBenedetto candidly spoke about how he approaches this new phase of his career now.

“I just have more mental clarity than ever driving a race car,” he said. “Is your life staked in racing in a sense? Yes. But also at the end of the day, man, it’s our job and we’re lucky to be doing it. I have a more balanced approach to it.”

DiBenedetto described how he used to get so mad and so angry before that it began affecting things beyond his professional career and environment. He called it “absolute torment, mental torment.”

This was to a point that whenever things would go wrong, his “poor wife” had to deal with his anger about what happened on the track.

But now that’s been “smacked in the head a 1,000 times,” Matt DiBenedetto has learned to be in control.