NATALIE DECKER Faces Sexist Backlash After Daytona Wreck Radio Message

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GRRL! musings…

Wait! She didn’t cause the wreck, she’s just pissed she got taken out, and she said so over her radio. Outrageous!! Have y’all ever heard anything like that, EVER before?

Umm… yes, ALL THE FUCKING TIME. But Natalie should make her baby boy a bottle because she “doesn’t belong”.

I think the people that need the bottle are the effing outraged idiots that cannot see hipocracy through their misogyny

February 15, 2026

GRRL! SUMMARY:

NATALIE DECKER’s return to the Xfinity Series at Daytona ended in frustration when she got collected in a massive final-stage wreck triggered by Jeb Burton tapping Ryan Sieg. After Sam Mayer’s car rolled up the track and made contact with her already-damaged Chevy, she vented her frustration over the radio with an expletive-filled message questioning why Mayer drove into the accident scene. The #35 Joey Gase Motorsports driver had run clean through the first two stages after qualifying P35 with owner points, only to see her race end in a P33 DNF through no fault of her own.
The fan response on social media revealed exactly why we still need to talk about sexism in racing. Comments ranged from questioning her spotter’s instructions to outright telling her she “needs to make her kid a bottle and her man a sammiche” and should be “home making the kid a bottle” instead of racing. Multiple fans claimed she “doesn’t belong in a race car” and has “no business being on track” – criticisms rarely lobbed at male drivers who vent frustration after getting wrecked. The pile-on used her emotional radio message as ammunition to question her entire presence in the sport, with one commenter dismissing her as a “pay to play” driver who “only got in because of owner points.”
The harsh response ignores DECKER’s actual journey back to competition. She made her first Xfinity start in over a year at Daytona’s fall 2025 race, just six months after giving birth to her son, piloting the #92 Chevy to a P22 finish for DGM Racing. She described being “excited, nervous, and thankful for the opportunity” to return to racing while navigating new motherhood. Her 2026 season opener with Joey Gase Motorsports marked her continued effort to build a career in NASCAR’s national series – a goal that apparently threatens some fans enough to suggest she abandon racing entirely based on one frustrated radio transmission after getting caught in someone else’s accident. Outrageous! A male driver would never be frustrated or swear or get out of his car to fight or ram his car into another because he was pissed. Oh, wait…