With seven laps remaining at the Spring Cup championship race in Phoenix on Sunday, Jeff Gordon reportedly purposefully caused a five-car pileup during the race because he didn't like how fellow driver Clint Bowyer was driving.

Bowyer clipped Gordon earlier in the race, causing him to slide hard into the wall and was unable to continue the race afterword. Instead of just leaving the track however, Gordon waited in his car for Bowyer and took him and Joey Logano's cars completely out of the race.

Then things got ugly.

Bowyer's car crew screamed at Gordon's crew over the radio system according to Yahoo for costing their driver a shot at winning the race, saying this was no way for a "champion to act." Once Gordon got out of his car, Bowyer's entire crew raced towards him for a fight. Gordon's crew acted quickly as they joined in to help even the odds.

"Cowardly, chicken and sad," Michael Waltrip, Bowyer's team owner, told MRN. "What a sad act that was by Jeff Gordon."

Gordon and his crew team were all escorted by police out of the area according to Yahoo and some form of punishment will be coming within the next 24 hours by the heads of NASCAR. Bowyer was said to be a little shaken up after the race and confused exactly why Gordon reacted the way he did.

"It's just a shame, man," Bowyer said after the race. "The last thing you want to get into anything with is Jeff Gordon. I didn't even need to pass him. All I was doing was biding my time. For him to act like that, I barely touched him. It's pretty embarrassing, and not what you expect from a four-time champion and what I consider one of the best the sport's ever seen."

Gordon stated after the race that this wasn't the first time Bowyer tried taking him out.

"It's escalated over the year and I've just had it," said Gordon in a press conference after the race. "Clint's run into me numerous times and wrecked me. He got into me on the back straightaway and ruined our day. I set up and got him back."

Driver Kyle Busch was black-flagged by NASCAR in 2011 for doing the same thing to driver Ron Hornaday Jr. in Texas.

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