With less than five minutes remaining in Happy Hour at Richmond International Raceway, Clint Bowyer was far from pleased with the #15 car. Bowyer, who has struggled to get up to speed since joining HScott Motorsports, suffered another rant on Saturday when smoke started spewing from his car. ‘Right front smoking, real bad, real bad, real bad,’ spotter Brett Griffin reported to the #15. Bowyer was 37th on the speed chart in single-lap runs during final practice – at a track where he’s won twice and enjoys his second-best career average finish (11.3) behind Sonoma. Yet on Saturday, he was one of just two cars not to post a 10 best consecutive lap run. ‘I’ve never been with such a (expletive) unprepared (expletive) team in my life,’ Bowyer replied via team radio. ‘It’s a (expletive) joke. No power steering. (Expletive) put this in the truck and go home.’ Bowyer is coming off of a season-best eighth place finish at Bristol Motor Speedway last weekend. His performance matched the organization’s career-high result posted by former driver Justin Allgaier at BMS in 2015. But as Bowyer acknowledged – quite honestly, two weeks ago – this season has been ‘tough’.(Motorsport)
