Before NASCAR Sprint Cup practice began at Richmond International Raceway on Friday, #10-Danica Patrick visited #93-David Gilliland at his transporter to discuss their differences. Patrick wanted to set the record straight with her fellow competitor regarding how she felt he was racing her last week. Over her radio at Kansas Speedway, Patrick said, ‘He tries to take me out every time.” After the race, Gilliland delivered the message through his public relations representative, ‘shut up and drive.” ‘Where our cars seem to run on the racetrack is probably the hardest racing on the racetrack, realistically, you know’ Gilliland said. ‘When youre in the top 10, you can let guys go and get back in. When the leaders are coming and youre fighting to risk going a lap down, back there where weve been racing, at the end of the day it could mean five or six spots. Its hard racing. But we talked this morning and feel like were on track to race each other the way we feel like we want to be raced. Thats just it a mutual respect thing that hopefully we got figured out. I think were on the same page. We have to figure out what we have to do to make our lives easier on each other. At the end of the day, you want to lose the least amount of time as you can. But we feel good about it going forward.”( Fox Sports )
