Ty Dillon No. 10 spotter Joe White reveals he was fired upon Talladega arrival after William Byron incident

Joe White, spotter for Ty Dillon and the No. 10 team, revealed Wednesday that he was fired by Kaulig Racing upon arriving at Talladega Superspeedway ahead of Sunday’s NASCAR Cup Series race. White added in a follow-up tweet that it had already been determined that he would not be spotting for Dillon next season.

However, he was to remain with Kaulig in some fashion. Now, he’s out entirely, and his dismissal comes with just three races remaining in the 2025 season.

White, who has been spotting for Dillon since last season, was at the forefront of the incident involving Dillon and William Byron during this past Sunday’s race at Las Vegas Motor Speedway. It was late in Stage 3 when Dillon and the No. 10 team decided to come down pit road while running off the lead lap. Byron, running second at the time, said he never got any indication that Dillon was going, and he plowed into the back of him.

Dillon said after the race that White informed Byron’s spotter Branden Lines that they would be making a green flag pit stop at a time where the cycle had ended. No. 24 team crew chief Rudy Fugle said Tuesday that White was late in informing them.

Freddie Kraft, spotter for Bubba Wallace and the No. 23 team, talked about the incident on Monday’s “Door Bumper Clear” podcast. Kraft said that the spotters from the respective teams were “yelling at each other” on the spotter stand.

Kaulig Racing CEO: Ty Dillon not at fault for wreck with William Byron at Las Vegas

“We talked about it on the roof yesterday. Because obviously, the 24 spotter was pretty heated at the 10 spotter,” Kraft said. “And at that moment, it’s like, hey, let’s everybody calm down… I didn’t hear it. I couldn’t really hear it. They were a few people down from me. I saw two of them get heated, yelling at each other.

“Then I saw someone else, Tyler Green, kinda went in, defuse the situation. And said, ‘Hey, this guy, you don’t know that he did anything wrong.’ I don’t know what happened.”

Unfortunately for Byron, he went from, at the very least, securing a top five or 10 finish to finishing 36th. He is now minus-15 points below the cutline with two Round of 8 races remaining. Kaulig Racing CEO Chris Rice did not put any of the blame on Dillon and the No. 10 team.

“I hate it but at the end of the day, it’s not on the 10 car. I’m not gonna say that,” Rice said Wednesday on SiriusXM NASCAR Radio. “The green flag was out. It’s called racing, you’ve gotta have slow cars to pass so you have a good race. If you don’t have slow cars and you just have fast cars riding around, it’s gonna be an awful race. So, we were slow that day, and he would have passed us in the next corner or whatever.

“I hate it for everybody, but I’m not gonna take blame. You’re sitting at a stop light and get hit from the back end, are you gonna take blame that the car from behind you hit you?”