NASCAR Legend Kyle Petty Calls Out Young Drivers

NASCAR legend Kyle Petty doesn't seem to think too highly of the younger generation of drivers and he outlined exactly what he doesn't like in a new interview.

Appearing on the Kevin Harvick's Harvick Happy Hour podcast, the eight-time NASCAR Cup Series race winner accused younger drivers of growing up on video games and not respecting the sport. He believes younger drivers are unapologetic for wrecking their opponents.

“We see drivers now that grow up on video games,” Petty said. “They grow up just crashing something and walking away from it and they don’t have to show up on Monday morning on six o’clock and put it back together. They got no skin in the game. You know what I mean? And they know when the race is over with, if I wreck you, I can text you or I can tweet you or I can have my wife call you. ‘Kevin I’m so sorry I got into you and I won the race. I’m sorry.’

“You think Cale Yarborough ever called up my dad and said, ‘Hey, sorry I kicked you ass bud, sorry.’ No! That’s what it was about, man. You get somebody a lap down, you keep them a lap down. The goal is to put everybody a lap down. That was the point. It was kill or be eaten. That’s the way it was, I’m sorry.”