McReynolds: “I feel that 15’s pain. I totally support what that 15 group did in the garage area.”
On Sunday’s NASCAR Victory Lane following the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series race at Phoenix, SPEED analysts Larry McReynolds and Kyle Petty discussed a variety of controversial topics that transpired during the penultimate race of the 2012 season. Points of conversation included Gordon and Clint Bowyer’s accident, their crews’ fight in the garage, whether or not Jeff Gordon should be penalized and whether NASCAR should have thrown the caution flag in the closing seconds of the race for Danica Patrick’s car.
Following are excerpts from the program:
Petty: “I’ve said this a million times. I’m all for ‘boys, have at it.’ But wrecking people is not ‘boys, have at it.’ Racing hard, like you saw Brad (Keselowski) and the No. 48 racing last week, is ‘boys, have at it.’”
McReynolds: “I do not believe in retaliating with race cars. What happened with two drivers (Gordon and Bowyer) affected a multitude of people. I feel badly for Clint Bowyer’s race team. Here’s a team that wasn’t really a race team 11 months ago and they have fought and they have clawed. They’ve won three races. They were third in the points still with a shot in this championship because something happened to Jimmie Johnson today. If we go to Homestead and something happens to (Brad) Keselowski, Bowyer’s a player again. I feel that 15’s pain. I totally support what that 15 group did in the garage area.”
Petty: “I think Robin Pemberton said it all when he said it’s hard to say, which means NASCAR isn’t going to do jack crap about this (penalizing Gordon, Bowyer or their crews). Jeff Gordon said (paraphrasing) ‘I got him back.’ I got him back. That’s the same thing we got into with Kyle Busch and Ron Hornaday at Texas (in 2011 Truck Series race). It was premeditated. I got him back. They parked Kyle Busch for a race. They took him out. What’s NASCAR going to do about this? Because this (Hornaday/Busch) was under caution and only affected these two guys. What happened between Jeff and Clint took out a couple of guys who were having really good runs. I’m going to say this, too, about the wreck and I’m going to make people mad all across the board. Clint Bowyer had no business being on the inside of Jeff Gordon trying to dodge him at that point in time on the race track, so I’m going to give a little bit of that accident to Clint for being down there in that place. But I’m going to put the burden on NASCAR. They should have thrown the caution when the 24 got into the wall and all those pieces came off through three and four and down the frontstretch. If we had had a caution then … they should have thrown the caution then. Jeff would have been forced to come to pit road and cooler heads would have prevailed. They also should have thrown the caution when Danica Patrick was sitting in the middle of the race track. They’re not going to say anything.”
On whether NASCAR should have thrown the caution flag at the end for Danica Patrick’s slowed car:
Petty: “I think we missed two cautions. I really do. I think Jeff Gordon – when he got hit and almost tried to wreck the 15 car and he got up in the wall. There was stuff coming off that car. You physically could see it on TV. We’ve seen cautions thrown for a lot less this year, so there should have been a caution there. Then Danica is sitting dead sideways in the middle of the race track. When you watch it on replay at home, she’s dead sideways … there should have been a caution thrown for Danica. When a car is moving that slow on the race track and has the track blocked at some point in time. I think Ryan Newman said it – yes, I have to question why they didn’t throw it … Always err on the side of safety, and having a car sitting sideways in the middle of the race track, having parts and pieces on the race track, the caution should be out.”
McReynolds: “We’ve seen a lot of inconsistency in this race today in when they threw the caution flag. A lot like Kyle just said, throughout the weekend here, the Truck race, the Nationwide Series race and all year long, we’ve seen that caution flag thrown a lot for a lot less than what we saw out there.”
Source: SPEED Press Release
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