Tempers overflowed between Daniel Suarez and Michael McDowell during qualifyin🅺g for the TicketGuardian 500 at the ISM Raceway.

Suarez was outwardly distraught that McDowell blocked him during the opening 10-minute qualifying session. The 27-year-old from Monterrey, Mexico preceded to attempt to spin McDowell out on his cool off lap before confronting him fist-to-cuffs on pit 🥀road.

The pair briefly exchanged punches and argued on pit road about the incidᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ𒀱ᩚᩚᩚen𝓀t.

“Just a lack of respect,” Suarez grumbled. “Track position is really big in this series. You have to qualify well in order to ꧑have a good stall on pit road.

“Everybody in this garage knows that t๊he second lap is a good one. You have to try to get out of the way if someone is on a hot lap andꦅ he didn’t. He killed me in one corner, I thought he was going to get out of the way in the second corner and he didn’t.

“He was disappointed that I tried to wreck him afterwards꧟ but that’s part of racing.”

“I’m the kind of driver that I’m going to give a lot of respect to you,ꦗ alw☂ays, if you give me respect back. If you don’t give me respect, I’m going to go kick your ass.”

McDowell, however, noted that the incident was a miscommunication on his part by waiting to go o💧ut until the session was nearly over.

“Just miscommunication on the racetrack,” said♛ McDowell. “We all kind of waited until the end and we just had a lot of traffic.

“He was upset that I held us up on his good lap, an♉d then he crashed us a💦nd I just didn’t appreciate it.”