Driver Stanton Barrett suggested the media sit down with him and watch the tapes of Saturday’s NASCAR Busch Series race at the 1.5-mile Texas Motor Speedway. Specifically, he said he would be glad to watch the tapes with them and answer any questions they have regarding the Lap 28 accident that began with #33 Tony Stewart and #1 Brandon Miller, and then encompassed Barrett’s #36 DCT Motorsports Chevrolet. “We were coming out of the second turn with Brandon and Tony hooked nose to tail, and I was maybe two car lengths back,” Barrett said of the incident. “Tony got into Brandon and Brandon was able to hold on, but Tony backed off after he hit him and I had nowhere to go. I guess he decided to blame me but, if you look at the tapes, it’s pretty obvious that it started when he and Brandon got together.” Stewart’s interview on FOX was a scathing near-personal attack that indicted Barrett, but glossed over the contact with Miller. “I’ll be glad to sit down with anyone from the media who wants to sit down and look at the tapes,” Barrett said. “I’ll tell them what is happening during the whole thing, and answer absolutely any question they want to ask. If Tony wants to join us, all the better. He could answer everybody’s questions too. It might give somebody a pretty neat story,” he added.(Williams Company)(4-18-2005)
