The victor of the two previous Cup races, Edwards finished 35th on Sunday.
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Earnhardt also acknowledged on “The Morning Drive” that drivers bear responsibility for what happened Sunday.
“It’s just Talladega”, he said. Keselowski, who is locked into the season-ending Chase for the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series, has two wins thus far in 2016.
Brad Keselowski led a race-high 46 laps en route to his second win of the season.
Crazy day. Somehow we managed to stay ahead of or out of all the chaos, Keselowski said. “That’s how Talladega goes”. You know that’s that’s not so they got us you know sometimes we run here and for right now lines up against the wall and sometimes we come here and it’s insane side by side and wreck them up clip from.
Earnhardt started the race from the third position, but by Lap 9, the No. 88 Chevrolet had fallen back into the middle of the 40-car field. “The whole race we were racing like we were racing to the end”.
Chris Bueschers vehicle flipped three times in an early crash, and Matt Kenseth was turned upside down in the waning laps. Patrick hit the interior wall – covered by a SAFER barrier – very hard, but quickly climbed out and walked to the interior wall. Her vehicle caught on fire due to the impact and the foot pedals were deranged. My chest hurts when I breathe.. He said being at the front of the pack helped keep him out of harm’s way.
With just eight laps to go, Matt Kenseth took off, tail-first into a retaining wall.
“I’m going home”, Earnhardt said.
“When I was younger I used to get upset about how I finished and what happened here, but I don’t anymore”.
“You can’t (have cars go airborne) but so many times before we need to realize something (needs to change)”, Austin Dillon said. I don’t know personally how to fix it. If we need to put something on the back of the vehicle to keep them on the ground, I’m all for it. I’m all for keeping all four tires on the ground. If people are cheering for crashes, man, its not a good thing.. Drivers ran every lap past the halfway point, i.e., the point at which the race could have been declared official, as if it were the last. Racing in a pack at 200 miles per hour means cars have the chance of getting airborne no matter what kind of tweaks and adjustments are made to them. In the end, rain never halted the race. “You get a peek into their personalities a little bit, and you end up becoming a fan of one based on how the stories are being told”. There were no moments to relax. “Then some people took it to the edge”. That’s the problem for all drivers at Talladega.
“I have to put myself in a situation I don’t want to be in to get into a good situation”, he said.
It’s not as if NASCAR can just abandon this type of racing, either. When you look back at all of these restrictor plate races, you have a lot of wrecks that just don’t happen. Rules were immediately implemented to keep the cars on the track, and IndyCar again issued a mandate in vehicle design for this month’s race. It was the third such wreck over the race’s final 36 laps. It includes the auto Juan Pablo Montoya ran into a jet dryer in the 2012 Daytona 500 and Jimmie Johnson’s vehicle that he wrecked at Phoenix after the steering wheel came off. Earnhardt has close to 90 cars in his graveyard.
Earnhardt’s calamities also caused another driver to fail, so spare a thought for former victor, Carl Edwards. “No fun. Ready to go home”.
“I’m a capitalist”, Keselowski said.
“I wish there wasn’t so much distance between the track and the wall (on the backstretch) because you gain such momentum at such a bad angle when you go there”, she said. We had something torn up there, drove down into turn one and I just felt the right front fall down and that was it. Youre kind of just along for the ride..
Reigning Sprint Cup champion Kyle Busch can not be counted among the supporters of plate racing.
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“We don’t want to wreck, we don’t want to be in races where we’re wrecking all the time, but the drivers carry a lot of responsibility for that, ” he told SiriusXM NASCAR Radio. Zero. That’s not to say NASCAR should be content to say plate racing is “safe”.
