#24-Jeff Gordon admitted he was late with a move that allowed him to pass Kurt Buschs #2 Dodge. Busch responded by knocking Gordon into the wall on Lap 385 at Martinsville Speedway ‘Â all but ending Gordons chances for a fifth championship. The way Busch sees it, however, theyre still not even. ‘I didnt mean to get into him that hard, but over the years with Gordon here, back in the 97 car (which Busch drove for Roush Racing), wrecking the 2 car’Âwhether youre a Kurt fan or an ex-Rusty (Wallace) fan’Âhes wrecked the 2 car a lot here.’Â Given the history, Gordon knew payback was coming. ‘I said it here, more than once, that I probably made the move a little late. I was going to get into him. It wasnt much. But I gave him enough of a reason that, whatever things he has from past history or whatever thoughts he has in there, it sparked it, you know? At that point, he was determined to wreck us.’Â(Sporting News)(10-25-2010)
UPDATE: #24-Jeff Gordon told Sirius NASCAR Radio’s Sirius Speedway with Dave Moody that he has not spoken with #2-Kurt Busch about the Martinsville run-in that left him with a damaged race car and a 20th place finish. “There have not been any conversations with Kurt, and I doubt that there will be,” he said. “The way I look at it, I race everybody the way they race me. I’m smart enough to know who I’m racing, and I look at every crash I’ve ever been in and ask what I could have done different. I dove in under him a little late and figured his spotter would see that I was there. I gave him a reason to lose his temper and wreck me, and I blame myself for that.” Gordon bumped Busch while passing him with 115 laps remaining in Sunday’s TUMS Fast Pain Relief 500, and Busch returned the favor in spades, spinning Gordon into the inside retaining wall on the frontstretch. The incident was the second between the two this season, after Gordon wrecked Busch on the road course at Infineon Raceway on June 20.(Sirius Speedway)(10-27-2010)
