MIAMI BEACH, Fla. (AP) – As expected, NASCAR’s four championship rivals were cordial, candid and comical.
No one tried to swing a chair, or even take a verbal jab.
UFC, this isn’t.
“Sorry we’re letting you down,” six-time champion Jimmie Johnson quipped Thursday.
The winner-take-all championship race Sunday at Homestead-Miami Speedway should be creating a semblance of tension between four rival drivers. But this quartet went bike riding together in one of their many stops on a seemingly sunshine-and-roses media tour. A week after Conor McGregor nearly threw a chair at Eddie Alvarez in a UFC pre-fight hype session, NASCAR’s ferocious four let trash-talking take a backseat on an easy afternoon full of heaping accolades for each other.