Underdog owner/driver Alex Clubb finished 10th in the ARCA Menards Series race at Elko Speedway on Saturday (June 21). It was his fifth career top 10 and first of 2025.
Yet Clubb was mad after the race, and his post-race interview with Frontstretch went viral.
The video presently has over 1,300 views. Clubb Racing Inc.’s Facebook post of the video has 148 reactions, 12 comments and six shares. Clubb himself posted it and it has generated 270 reactions, 63 comments and 24 shares. Moreover, numerous people have shared their thoughts about it on social media as well. It’s caught people’s attention, including ARCA officials.
The fallout? Clubb was fined $250 and placed on probation for the remainder of the 2025 season.
“Everything’s great, I’m just looking forward to getting back in my racecar at Lime Rock Park,” Clubb told Frontstretch shortly after the series published the penalty statement.
Clubb must pay the $250 to compete at Lime Rock. He indeed will do so, but added, “It’s money out of our pocket, but it is what it is.”
Regarding the probation sentence, it is a standard penalty for all first-time offenders, ARCA Communications Director Charles Krall confirmed to Frontstretch.
What then does probation mean per the ARCA rulebook?
“It’s a very vague definition,” Krall said. “Just means if we see something that we think rises to the level of a penalty, then it could be something a little more serious next go round. It just means penalties will generally increase with the next infraction.”
Follow-up penalty amounts vary. The series has penalized a few drivers in 2025, including Elko victor Max Reaves in the same penalty report as Clubb.
“The penalty report speaks for itself,” Krall continued.
As for Clubb, does he have any regrets about the interview?
“Everything’s great,” he answered. “I got a lot of traction, a lot more than I planned to get. So, I think people are just tired of people sugarcoating things and I didn’t sugarcoat them.”
While the interview went viral, Clubb doubts it’ll help gain sponsorship.
“I don’t think that interview is one you want to present to sponsors unless they’re kind of a rough-and-tumble group,” he noted. “I guess any publicity is good publicity, they say, so we’ll see how it works out.”
One of the drivers Clubb called out in his post-race interview was Bryce Haugeberg. Haugeberg shared his thoughts on both his race plus Clubb’s comments on Facebook. Clubb conceded his emotions had not cooled off when the interview occurred.
“I got blocked by the Nos. 10 and 11, I was just mad when I got out of the car and I got a microphone right in my face,” he continued. “So, I just kind of went off on everybody.
“I commented on his Facebook post that he made and basically just told him I was mad. It was one of those things when you get out of the car, you’re mad, and you get a microphone put in your face, you kind of tend to go off, or at least I do.”
“I talked to Tony and apologized and I’ll put this here I got held up a few times and then the 31 blocked me for a ridiculous number of laps and ran me in the wall 3 times while they were 2 down and we were lead lap,” Clubb commented on Haugeberg’s post. “I ended up shipping her into 3 one lap and ruined our nose and air box the car ran hot and I ran the last 105 laps quarter throttle. By the end of the race I was extremely mad over how the 31 raced me. As soon as I got out of my car I had someone in my face for an interview. I had zero time to cool off or talk about it with our crew. I just went off on a pissed off rant. I’m sorry and I look forward to racing with you guys the next time you’re with us.”
So now the series heads to Lime Rock. In two road course starts, Clubb has an average finish of 20.0. He does not expect to follow up his Elko run with another top 10.
“I don’t know; I’m not a road course guy, so just try to go ride around and not look like a complete idiot and try to get a finish,” he said. “I kind of hope it rains. Rain would be good because I’ve got rain tires so we can watch everybody spin out and I’ll just drive by them like a granny at the supermarket.”
Clubb’s team fields two full-time entries: the No. 03, driven by himself, and the No. 86, which has been piloted by several drivers. Looking forward, Jeff Maconi will take the reins at Lime Rock plus two additional races. Colby Evans will debut at Iowa Speedway and Doug Miller will also debut at Lucas Oil Indianapolis Raceway Park. Josh White will compete for the team at Bristol Motor Speedway with the possibility of two more races at Salem Speedway and Kansas Speedway. CRI hopes to have Casey Carden return to pilot the No. 86, though nothing is signed yet.
CRI’s No. 03 is 11th in owner points and the No. 86 is 21st. Elko was the organization’s first top 10 in the national series, and for Alex Clubb, it certainly was a memorable one.
Mark Kristl joined Frontstretch at the beginning of the 2019 NASCAR season. He is the site's ARCA Menards Series editor. Kristl is also an Eagle Scout and a proud University of Dayton alum.