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Ricky Stenhouse Jr.’s former Hyak Motorsports spotter, Tab Boyd, has a new NASCAR Cup Series gig with Christopher Bell after being brutally fired over feedback made during the game’s journey to Mexico City earlier this month. Boyd was fired after he vented his frustration after being hustled exterior his resort in Mexico as NASCAR competed in its first factors races exterior of the continental U.S. because the late Nineteen Fifties.

“I’m ready to go home; screw this place; people can talk it up all they want,” Tab Boyd stated from a now-deleted X account. “Can’t even walk out the front door of the hotel without getting hustled and money snatched… in less than 5 minutes. Good area, my a–.”

Boyd was changed by Clayton Hughes, who served because the spotter for Stenhouse Jr. at Pocono, which was gained by Chase Briscoe, who noticed off the sturdy problem of pole starter and Joe Gibbs Racing teammate Denny Hamlin. You know, clearly, that is an unlucky deal,” Stenhouse Jr. stated by way of SiriusXM NASCAR Radio. “The crew let Tab Boyd go this week, and we obtained Clayton Hughes to return fill in. I’ve by no means labored with Clayton.”

“You know, clearly, I feel the priority for me is attempting to get on the identical web page as fast as we are able to, figuring out that, such as you stated, the schedule coming up, going to Atlanta subsequent week may very well be a very important race for our race crew and attempting to get us into the Playoffs and put us in the proper place,” he added.

However, Boyd was out of a job for just over a week and will return to the Cup Series as the spotter for the No. 19 Bell of JGR in Atlanta. Bell has 12 Cup victories to his name, three of which came in the 2025 season consecutively.

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Boyd wasn’t the only NASCAR figure to get in hot water over comments made about Mexico. The 2024 Rookie of the Year, Carson Hocevar, caused controversy on a Twitch stream when he labeled the city a “s——-.”

“This entire expertise, if the journey was higher, if getting right here was simpler, if you happen to felt safer attending to and from in every single place, if it wasn’t such a s——-, if the observe limits have been a little higher enforced, if it was going to be a little bit higher of a race, and it [didn’t] really feel so locked down like you possibly can’t depart anyplace, it might be a great expertise,” he said. Spire Motorsports took Hocevar’s comments seriously and fined the 22-year-old $50,000.

Spire Motorsports also confirmed that Hocevar would be mandated to complete cultural sensitivity and bias-awareness training. Following his experience that weekend, Hocevar later retracted his comments on X.

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He said: “Maybe a child that had by no means been out of the nation till Thursday ought to ever give an opinion about what anyplace is like different than Portage, Michigan [sic]. When I answered that query on a stream, I used to be skeptical in regards to the journey to this point and believed every thing I learn or heard about Mexico City from people who more than doubtless additionally had by no means been right here.

“Now that I’ve actually left my hotel a couple times and raced here in front of some of the most passionate fans I’ve ever seen, my opinion has changed. I am embarrassed by my comments, by the race I ran.

“Count this as one other lesson for me in a season I’ve discovered a lot. Don’t consider every thing you hear with out seeing it your self. If anybody ought to give anybody or anyplace the benefit of the doubt it is me. I’m sorry Mexico City. Consider me an ally going ahead and an instance of getting off Twitch and seeing issues with my own two eyes.”