from an article at Sports Illustrated:
You [#12-Brad Keselowski] and #11-Denny Hamlin had some issues on the track Wednesday. Can you tell us what happened?
“We were nearly wrecking, I will say that. On my end, we made contact because I felt that he slid up in front of me. I don’t know his side of it. It seemed like he ran over everybody, not just me. NASCAR is saying drivers are going to police themselves — we’ll see how the other drivers police each other. You know, he had a chance to make a move on me, and the closer you get to somebody, the worse you make your car handle on both ends. I think I was on pretty old tires at the time. My car got looser and looser. I had a car underneath me — and rather than force the issue in practice with somebody underneath me, I ran up the track (to let him in) and cracked the throttle a little bit (to back off). He got underneath me after that, but he wasn’t going to clear me — and he decided he was going to clear me anyway. When he did, I was still there. I had to lift — so when I got back to his bumper, I let him know that I was still there.(Sports Illustrated), of note: #11-Hamlin starts 25th and #12-Keselowski start 26th in the Daytona 500, in row13, But with #24-Gordon going to a backup car, starting 21st, will have to go to the rear of the field, so Hamlin will move up a row before the drop of the green flag on Sunday.(2-13-2010)
