Kyle Busch wrecked early Sunday in the Autotrader EchoPark Automotive 500 NASCAR Cup Series race at Texas Motor Speedway, completing just 48 laps, and finishing 36th.
What happened?
“I was just getting closer to the 11 (Denny Hamlin) and I knew if I tracked him, followed him in the lower groove, I would lose ground, so I went to the high groove where I was making time in the spray and the sticky stuff, but it is not so sticky apparently. I crashed. I‘m trying to go, trying to race. Banana peels out there for me. Too many conditions that you‘ve got to be around or go around or figure out or be smarter about. I guess I wasn‘t very smart.”
From your perspective, was that resin or just pushing the car too hard?
“I didn‘t know as a race car driver you could push too hard, but certainly, it was a resin issue. I guess you would think being a hundred-and-something degree track temp it would be activated and ready to go, but I tried to get in it earlier than everybody else. I was behind the 11 (Denny Hamlin), catching the 11. If I tracked the 11 in the lower groove, I was going to lose time to him, so I just decided to go high and try to keep time or make time on him and it just snapped. Once these cars snap, they are gone. They are not like the old one where you have a little bit of time to react and catch it, but yeah, just trying hard trying to go and conditions are not ready. Banana peels out there it seems. When that stuff is not activated, it is just ice.”
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