#48-Jimmie Johnson Sidelined in multi-car crash on lap 2 of the Daytona 500 at Daytona International Speedway on Monday, February 27, 2012, his comments from a Chevy PR:
LOOKED LIKE A HARD HIT. FIRST ARE YOU OK? WHAT HAPPENED?
Johnson: ‘Yes, I ‘m ok. That side hit was hard. We were all just trying to make our lane work. A lot of energy in the lane. I was kind of pushing the No. 78 (Regan Smith) a little bit. I could feel some help from behind. Just turned me around. Sent me down to the inside lane and back up to the outside lane. When I was l sitting in the middle of the race track, I knew at some point someone was going to come along unfortunately. David Ragan had nowhere to go. I unfortunately got drilled by him pretty hard. I ‘m just really, really bummed to start the season this way. For all the hard work that has gone into getting this Lowe’s Chevrolet ready for tonight; we didn ‘t get to complete two-and-a-half miles of green flag racing. So, I ‘m pretty bummed.’
ARE YOU OK? ‘I ‘m ok. I ‘m just really bummed-out for this whole Lowe’s team. To work as hard as everyone did at Hendrick Motorsports to get this Lowe’s Chevrolet and to have it barely complete two-and-a-half miles of green flag racing is pretty sad. Disappointed, but nothing I can do about it now. We ‘ll just go on and go to Phoenix and set our marks on winning that race.’
DO YOU HAVE ANY IDEA WHAT HAPPENED? ‘We were all just getting up to speed and I had some help from behind that got me out of control. From there on I was just spinning.’(Chevy PR)(2-28-2012)
