Hendrick Motorsports team owner Rick Hendrick believes crew chief Chad Knaus was just being cautious when he made the now-infamous remark to driver Jimmie Johnson that he should intentionally damage his car if he won the race at Talladega Superspeedway last week. “It’s one of those deals where I wish he hadn’t said it because I think he’s just nervous about the inspection process being so tight,” Hendrick said. “But at the end of the day, I looked at where we were at the end of the race and I thought, ‘If we had an advantage, it was a piss-poor showing. I look at that as one of those things where you’re mic’d all the time and you’re just making a comment. I’m not even sure he knew what he was doing.”(Scene Daily)(10-31-2011)
