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Newman, Kahne Share Frustration
September 7th, 2010
HAMPTON, Ga. – Ryan Newman is trying to make the Chase for the NASCAR Sprint Cup, and on Sunday, it looked like it was going to be a case of him moving his way toward that goal…with the front bumper of the U.S. Army Chevrolet.
At least upon first appearance, it did.
Newman was involved in both of the big crashes in the Emory Health Care 500, first with Greg Biffle and last with Kasey Kahne. The latter led to a discussion at the team transporters, parked conveniently next to each other.
“Kasey is a good friend of mine and we’ve always raced hard,” Newman said later. “I got into the back of him there on the back straightaway on that restart, the same time the No. 18 (Kyle Busch) hit me. You can watch the replay, and at least I think it was the No. 18.
“I got him crossed up and sideways and it ruined his day. It was unintentional, but it happens. It’s happened in enough situations this year where I’ve been told it’s unintentional and it’s ruined my day.”
Kahne spent 15 laps fixing a broken water cooler and fender damage, then returned to the track to give Newman a shot from behind that cost him four or five spots in the standings. Those could cost him the Chase spot he’s looking to snag.
Newman shrugged.
“He felt like he needed to retaliate,” he said. “Fortunately I kept mine straight and we went on. I told him that long story short, I’d rather talk about it before we go out and do that again. I’m good. We’re good. Everything is fine.”
It was a recap of a story we’ve seen a lot this year: bump-draft to help out and end up causing a problem.
“The No. 18 (Kyle Busch) hit me the same time I hit the No. 9 (Kahne),” he said. “It was within a millisecond. I was just trying to help him to push him to get ahead of the No. 2 (Kurt Busch) car and it didn’t work out. We’ve seen this several times this year, and it was me trying to help him out. It causes accidents once in a while. It hurt him but in the grand scheme of things he tried to hurt me and it didn’t hurt us as bad. So, we’ll just go on.”
Kahne shrugged as well, and agreed with Newman.
“I was just going down the straightaway and got hit from behind and I know it was the 39, so I feel like he lost us about 20 spots today,” Kahne said. “He said he got hit from
behind and that forced him into me, so that’s racing, but either way, we’re the one that took the big shot there.”
As for the discussion, Kahne was matter-of-fact.
“Ryan and I are fine,” Kahne said. “We don’t have an issue with each other, it’s just that when you get racing sometimes it gets you mad. He lost about four spots from me rubbing him a little bit and I lost about 25 or 30 from him rubbing me, so he got me a little better.”
Biffle was the loser in the first case. Racing three-wide, Biffle dived down in front of Newman, and it sent him spinning.
“He just cut across my nose,” Newman said later. “I don’t know if the spotter told him he was clear or he thought he was and he wasn’t, but he just came across my nose and spun himself out. It hurt our day and I should be mad at Biffle as much as Kasey should be mad at me.
“It knocked the fender in and cost us a bunch of track position. Track position was probably a bigger hit than the fender itself.”
Biffle took the bullet for the mess.
“It was my fault,” he said. “I didn’t know we were still three-wide and I guess I cut down on the 39. I have to watch the replay. He certainly didn’t cut us any slack. He could have cut us some slack and let us go there. I don’t know, I’ll have to watch the replay before I make my judgment, but I didn’t know we were still three-wide. It looked like I had cleared him, along with the 43, and I just turned down into the corner and, unfortunately, he was there. We still locked ourselves into the Chase, so we’re excited about that.”
Newman was not so lucky, and he faces an historic uphill climb to make it into the Chase. The largest margin overcome in the final pre-Chase event is 55 points; Newman trails Clint Bowyer by 117.
“How do you expect to make it up in one race what we didn’t do in 25 races?” Newman said. “Mathematically, we have a chance and for an engineering guy I guess that means something. But I can only try my hardest and I did that tonight. We can’t expect to make it all up in one shot.”