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Ty Majeski Disqualified At The Snowball Derby | Matt Weaver Reports · Kenny Wallace Media

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  I just want to make sure I'm formally filing a protest, OK?
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  All right. Ty, we just heard you say you're
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  formally filing a protest. Yeah, I, I watched the replay.
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  I thought I went up the line. The rule states you can pick up
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  your pace to the box. And it's, it's, it's very
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  objective the way they have the rules.
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  It's not black and white like maybe a, you know, NASCAR rules
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  are it's a increase to the box. And yeah, I fired right at the
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  line. And I don't feel like you can
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  make a call like that in a race like this.
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  That's yeah. After watching the replay, it's
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  yeah, I, I, I feel like it's not a call that that they can make
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  at this point. How did you feel about the first
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  one? I definitely jumped the first
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  one. Yeah, I definitely did.
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  We got chatter on the radio of got chatter on the radio of the
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  51 trying to jump me and they asked if they'd have a Mulligan.
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  So I was anticipating that and yeah, I I wanted to get sort of
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  that first one out of the way and then yeah, fired at the line
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  the next one. What is the the process next?
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  I guess the next couple minutes. We've formally filed the
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  protest. I don't know what that looks
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  like. I've never done this before, but
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  we're certainly going to respectfully argue our case.
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  And yeah, see. Where it goes You had the
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  conversation with Nick and Tim. What did you learn and what was
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  the the counter argument? Yeah, I mean, I learned that
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  they're not going to do anything.
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  I felt like, you know, they yeah, I don't know.
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  I don't want to say anything. I'm very disappointed.
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  I've I've been in situations, you know, some disappointing
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  situations in my career. This certainly takes the cake
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  just with the circumstances, how close the the ball in the strike
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  call was. I feel like, you know, if they
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  were to do it over again, they probably wouldn't make that call
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  again knowing what they know now.
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  It's biggest race of the year. And, you know, whether I went a
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  couple feet early, whether it's a gradual increase, whether it
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  was a hard fire, that's all, all subjective to a human being
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  making the call. And yeah, I mean, Tim, Tim said
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  he was going to back his officials.
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  I respect that. Obviously, I'm going to plead my
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  case. Biggest race of the year, 50K on
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  the line. And, you know, they decided
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  that, you know, they weren't going to do anything about it.
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  So felt like there's a black cloud over the race with that
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  call. And then, you know, I knew I was
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  probably an uphill battle trying to get a reversed again.
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  It would have been even even worse.
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  So yeah, I just incredibly disappointed.
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  On top of that, they're taking our motor so we weren't kicked
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  down already. They're just yeah, put their
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  feet on our throats, I guess. So all my guys have been here
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  this whole week. Obviously, you know, a tough
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  week weather wise and we all want to go home and here we are
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  getting disqualified on a, on a ball in a strike call and
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  they're taking our motor. Is it especially frustrating
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  that you've been bit by the slow restart a couple years ago and
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  then they did change that rule and they, they said that your
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  input was kind of a part of that.
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  So we have the fast restarts and then you get bit by that too.
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  Is it kind of like a damned if you do, damned if you don't,
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  just from a a driving standpoint?
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  That's I told Nick, you know, I, I had been going pretty early in
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  the box all day and I didn't want to put myself in a spot to
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  get spun like I did in 19. I felt like you, you know,
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  Nicholas put me in that spot 19 because he was, you know, saying
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  I was, I was doing them wrong, doing them wrong.
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  So I was, I was, you know, trying to change it up and I'm
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  getting myself wrecked. So, you know, I, I think the
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  biggest, their biggest problem is they don't protect the leader
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  enough and it creates games in the restart box as second place.
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  You know, other than not having the preferred line, you almost
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  have an advantage. You can really control the
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  leader with the rules the way that they are.
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  It's like I said, such a a ball and a strike call.
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  And to me, we're all professionals.
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  We all have great transmissions. It's very difficult to miss a
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  shift. These aren't late model stock
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  transmissions, you know, to me, you just make a NASCAR style.
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  You cannot pick up your speed before the box and you fire
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  inside the box, period. And I feel like a lot of these
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  issues go away. And, you know, I, you know, told
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  that to Nicholas and he said he didn't disagree with that.
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  So I think they know that they have, you know, some some, some,
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  you know, things that they need to clarify and and clean up just
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  to avoid something like this again.
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  But yeah, what a dominant race car.
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  Thank you to Menards. Thank you to I Racing Track TV
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  everybody that came on board for this race.
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  I have a lot of things to look forward to in in 2026 but man
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  after this I need a racing detox.
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  Time to go home and spend some time with the family.