Here is a condensed version of the incident between Ernie Irvan and Jeff Gordon from three eye witnesses: “I was at Richmond, right out of turn 2 where the incident happened. I had my scanner on Ernie, so I heard and saw what happened. Right before the restart everybody was lined up but Gordon, he was trying to move up to be the first car on the lead lap for the restart. He was riding in the middle of the lead cars and lapped cars but no one would let him move up (Gordon). Then he flat out ran over Ernie’s left front I saw the cars collide, both cars bounced in the air and then I heard Ernie say on the scanner “&*%$# Gordon just ran over my left front”. When it turned green Ernie radioed in and said his left front is going down, and going down fast, Marc Reno told him to try to ride it out, and only pit if he really needed and right after he said that all I saw was smoke from the 28″. Please keep your flames to yourself, just reporting what I have heard as I have gotten many questions on this incident(3-4-97)
