{"id":1331304,"date":"2021-03-07T12:30:00","date_gmt":"2021-03-07T17:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sports7.us\/?p=1331304"},"modified":"2023-09-20T17:16:26","modified_gmt":"2023-09-20T21:16:26","slug":"clint-bowyers-first-victory-led-brawl-hiding-flagger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sports7.us\/news\/clint-bowyers-first-victory-led-brawl-hiding-flagger\/","title":{"rendered":"Clint Bowyer's First Victory Led to an All-Out Brawl and a Hiding Flagger"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sports7.us\/clint-bowyer-mocks-jeff-gordon-during-dixie-vodka-400-broadcast-with-comments-some-nascar-fans-likely-found-offensive\/\">Clint Bowyer<\/a> became accustomed to packed racetracks and cheering crowds during his <a href=\"http:\/\/sports7.us\/tag\/motorsports\">NASCAR<\/a> career. The same didn\u2019t hold true earlier in Bowyer\u2019s life.\u00a0 Growing up in Kansas, a 15-year-old Bowyer captured his first victory at a street stock race.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>What happened after that is something out of <a href=\"https:\/\/sports7.us\/beer-bombs-and-brawls-10-cent-beer-night-with-cleveland-indians-devolves-into-riot\/\">10 Cent Beer Night<\/a>, trust us.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-clint-bowyer-won-his-first-race-at-15-years-old\">Clint Bowyer won his first race at 15 years old<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Wonder what <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ClintBowyer?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@ClintBowyer<\/a> was saying to a young <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ColeCuster?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@ColeCuster<\/a>? \ud83e\udd14\ud83d\ude2c Caption this, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/SHRFans?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#SHRFans<\/a>!<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/TBT?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#TBT<\/a> \/\/ <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/NASCAR?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#NASCAR<\/a> \/\/ <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/SHRacing?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#SHRacing<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/I6g7A9YUWe\">pic.twitter.com\/I6g7A9YUWe<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Stewart-Haas Racing (@StewartHaasRcng) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/StewartHaasRcng\/status\/1248311494917468162?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 9, 2020<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>There were no trophies or celebrating fans when <a href=\"https:\/\/sports7.us\/clint-bowyer-practical-slightly-disgusting-pre-race-key-success\/\">Clint Bowyer<\/a> won a street stock race in Junction City, Kan., at age 15.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In a 2012 interview with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sbnation.com\/nascar\/2012\/6\/27\/3121115\/clint-bowyer-nascar-2012-michael-waltrip-racing\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">SB Nation<\/a>, Bowyer walked Jeff Gluck and his readers through what happened. While participating in a Sunday afternoon race, Bowyer used his driving to create a chaotic scene.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>\u201cI was running well and the local hero was behind me. With a few laps to go, under caution, he came up behind me and hit me in the left rear and knocked my tire down. Well, (the officials) let me go to the pits, waited for me to change my tire and put me right back up at the front. I beat him, and boy, the fight was on!\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>Trust us when we say that Bowyer wasn\u2019t exaggerating about a fight. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-bowyer-s-victory-started-an-all-out-brawl\">Bowyer's victory started an all-out brawl<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>The crowd in attendance at Junction City wasn\u2019t at all happy with <a href=\"https:\/\/sports7.us\/dejected-clint-bowyer-wears-tom-brady-jersey-after-losing-bet-and-then-smashes-lombardi-trophy-on-pit-road\/\">Clint Bowyer<\/a>\u2019s victory. Bowyer explained to SB Nation that his win actually left the fans quite angry. We\u2019ll let Bowyer take it from here.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>\u201cThe pits were fighting, the grandstands were fighting. Everyone was after the flagger; the flagger locked himself in either the restroom or the concession stand, I think. But it was a wild, wild first win. There I was: Like 15 years old in the middle of all of it, just grinning, loving it.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>Imagine this scene for a second. A 15-year-old racer\u2019s victory made people so angry that they began fighting, and the flagger sealed himself away to avoid getting hurt. There aren\u2019t many 15-year-olds capable of creating such havoc, but that is Clint Bowyer in a nutshell.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-things-went-far-better-in-clint-bowyer-s-nascar-career\">Things went far better in Clint Bowyer's NASCAR career<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Clint Bowyer captured his first Cup Series victory at the Sylvania 300 in Loudon, N.H., during the 2007 season.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Relive Bowyer&#039;s 2018 Martinsville win\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/CXEe9_or5IQ?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Bowyer was 28 at the time and long removed from his controversial victory in Junction City. In 16 seasons at the <a href=\"https:\/\/sports7.us\/richard-petty-surprisingly-didnt-win-all-200-nascar-cup-series-races-petty-enterprises\/\">Cup Series level<\/a>, Bowyer had 226 top-10 finishes and 10 victories.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Thankfully for Bowyer and his team, none of his victories seemingly inspired the chaos that happened when he was 15. Bowyer is an eccentric person, and NASCAR fans are a passionate bunch, which created a lovable relationship between both parties in his time racing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Bowyer will turn 45 in May 2024. Perhaps he should spend that day tracking down the racer from his first victory and having a rematch, for old times\u2019 sake.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Like <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/Sports7dotcom\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><em>Sports7<\/em><\/a><em> on Facebook. Follow us on Twitter <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Sports719\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><em>@sports719<\/em><\/a><em>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Longtime NASCAR racer Clint Bowyer won his first amateur race at 15 years old, and his victory created a disaster in Kansas.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":155,"featured_media":1577252,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[253795],"tags":[118377],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v22.3 (Yoast SEO v22.9) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Clint Bowyer&#039;s First Victory Led to an All-Out Brawl and a Hiding Flagger - Sports7<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Longtime NASCAR racer Clint Bowyer won his first amateur race at 15 years old, and his victory created a disaster in Kansas.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/sports7.us\/news\/clint-bowyers-first-victory-led-brawl-hiding-flagger\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Clint Bowyer's First Victory Led to an All-Out Brawl and a Hiding Flagger\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Longtime NASCAR racer Clint Bowyer won his first amateur race at 15 years old, and his victory created a disaster in Kansas.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/sports7.us\/news\/clint-bowyers-first-victory-led-brawl-hiding-flagger\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Sports7\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2021-03-07T17:30:00+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2023-09-20T21:16:26+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/sports7.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Clint-Bowyer-2007.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1250\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"883\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Jake Elman\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@JakeElman97\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Jake Elman\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"3 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/sports7.us\/news\/clint-bowyers-first-victory-led-brawl-hiding-flagger\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/sports7.us\/news\/clint-bowyers-first-victory-led-brawl-hiding-flagger\/\",\"name\":\"Clint Bowyer's First Victory Led to an All-Out Brawl and a Hiding Flagger - 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