#18- Kyle Busch talked to the media Friay morning at Watkins Glen and was asked about running out of gas on the final lap at Pocono:
Q: Have you talked with your team about running out of fuel at Pocono last week?
Busch: “Of course Adam (Stevens, crew chief) and I talked about it this week and I went in Tuesday morning and watching a couple of the NASCAR shows this week and heard some of the commentators kind of beating up on me about not saving fuel and listening to my crew chief. My crew chief told me I did nothing wrong. He told me that we were not short on fuel, that we were two-thirds of a lap to the good and he was not asking me to save fuel, but once I couldn’t really catch the #22 (Joey Logano) to just save in case there was a yellow – save the car, save the tires, save the brakes, save all the stuff, the mechanics of the race car. So in case we did have a shootout at the end that I would be ready for it. It wasn’t until the 22 bunch started getting on Joey about saving fuel with about seven (laps) to go that then I heard my first, “Okay, save fuel.’ By then, you’re not going to save what you need in seven laps, you’re not going to have the opportunity to do that. I could have if I would have gotten, what I told Adam, the harp. At the Brickyard we were short on fuel and Adam told me, “Hey, save fuel.’ I asked him then again, “Are you sure?’ He goes, “Yeah bud, there’s absolutely going to be no checkered flag for us if you don’t save fuel.’ The tone was quite higher than that. We obviously have real good communication with one another and we weren’t short and for some reason we ended up being short that last run and we know the reason why now, but we didn’t know at that particular point.”(Toyota Racing PR)(8-8-2015)
