Red Bull Racing's Scott Speed relies on strength of organization to overcome incident with Brian Vickers
By Lee Montgomery - Associate Editor
Tuesday, June 30, 2009
Red Bull Racing's Scott Speed is 35th in the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series standings heading into Saturday's race at Daytona International Speedway.
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Red Bull Racing driver Scott Speed says he plans to talk with Sprint Cup Series teammate Brian Vickers sometime this week to discuss their incident during last weekend’s NASCAR Nationwide Series race at New Hampshire Motor Speedway.
The two were driving for separate organizations in the Nationwide Series, Speed for Michael Waltrip Racing and Vickers for Braun Racing. Late in the race, Speed got in the back of Vickers’ car, sending it into the wall.
On the cool-down lap, Vickers rammed the back of Speed’s car.
On a national conference call with reporters Tuesday, Speed said he had yet to talk to Vickers.
“Honestly, I haven’t spoken [to him] about it yet,” Speed said with a laugh. “I think we wanted to let things cool down a little bit.”
Speed, who had quipped after he was involved in a crash in New Hampshire’s Cup race Sunday that “maybe Brian paid someone off for yesterday,” said Tuesday that comment was a joke.
“I did mention, however, that I didn’t touch the [No.] 83 [of Vickers] when he was off in the grass under caution,” Speed said. “I didn’t have any part of that. I did jokingly say that he might have paid someone off to take us out, because we were having a really good weekend and then got wrecked, unfortunately.”
Speed said he isn’t worried about any simmering controversy between the two drivers and expects several team officials to be present when the two drivers talk.
“We’ve got a good enough organization here at Red Bull,” Speed said. “We’ve got good people on board, and I’m sure it’s something that we’re going to be able to straighten out, and it’s not going to be such a big deal to carry forward. We’ll have our talk, and I’m sure we’ll be all fine after.”
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arttidesco said:
Jun 30, 2009 at 2:38 PMI made a prediction at the beginning of the year Scott might be lucky to keep his ride 'til the end of the year, I thought his results would not stack up, now he seems to be playing the fool with his CUP team mate as well, I find it hard to believe Vickers will not start demanding that Scott leaves before 2010.
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Jun 30, 2009 at 2:55 PM"Speed said he isn’t worried about any simmering controversy between the two drivers and expects several team officials to be present when the two drivers talk."
Report as AbuseThat they need all these extra people around just to talk does not bode well for these team mates!
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Jun 30, 2009 at 3:03 PMI really have a hard time taking anything Scott Speed does or say's serious. If he was a "MAN" then he would talk to Vickers man to man, but to have to wait till other team people are present is acting like the little girl he is. He does not belong in NASCAR.
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» Confirm Abuse Reportmerri-scott said:
Jun 30, 2009 at 4:00 PMDue to his cheap shot after the Cup race, joking or not, after the Cup race, I tend to doubt his sincerity.
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» Confirm Abuse Reportamalycke said:
Jun 30, 2009 at 4:06 PMWell I've also heard that other Cup drivers get paid to whack enemies of their friends on the racetrack. Look at the Bristol race where Andrett failed on his first attempt to wreck Blaney and ended up spinning himself into a water barrier. On the next restart, he finally got Blaney's bumper and immediately dumped him into the safer-barrier. Andretti and Blaney NEVER had a feud even though they don't talk, it's just that maybe Blaney's enemy paid Andretti to take out Blaney that day in preperation for a pre-emptive Martinsville shorttrack payback the next week. Perhaps it was current Caterpillar driver Jeff Burton in orders from CAT to payback former Caterpillar driver Dave Blaney for driving miserably last year ... think about it.
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» Confirm Abuse Reportyojoromo said:
Jun 30, 2009 at 4:09 PMI think it was absolutely stupid of both drivers to damage the two cars and if they were working for me there would be consequences. What they both did, was just idiotic.
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» Confirm Abuse Reportamalycke said:
Jun 30, 2009 at 4:31 PM#6/ Yojomoro: I totally agree that Blaney and Andretti shouldn't have damaged their two cars and cause two unneeded cautions in the process at Bristol. Oh well, I guess Andretti & Blaney both win due to the fact that we're talking about them and not someone else today. They get all the airtime then. The Bristol cat and mouse game between the two is readily available per the YouTube website.
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» Confirm Abuse ReportTuxcatmama said:
Jun 30, 2009 at 5:21 PMScott Speed needs to go away.
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» Confirm Abuse Reportbthompson133 said:
Jun 30, 2009 at 5:47 PMi hear lepricahns are very dangerous, maybe that's why the extra people are needed?
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» Confirm Abuse Reportbhstoneman said:
Jun 30, 2009 at 8:35 PMNo. 3 - I totally agree!
Report as AbuseNo. 5 - I think you just insulted Jeff Burton. If there is anyone on the track who could not be "paid" to take out another driver, it is Jeff!
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» Confirm Abuse Reportjwm1955 said:
Jun 30, 2009 at 8:48 PMI belive finger nail painting Speed will not be driving for Red Bull racing next year,he needs to be driving back in his other cars.
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» Confirm Abuse Reporttroyhackney said:
Jul 1, 2009 at 10:02 AMjwm1955, you are correct. He will probably be in a MUCH better series than NASCAR; it's called Formula1. More than likely the US F1 Team. Speed is a great driver, he just needs to settle into what he intends on driving instead of bouncing around and driving in different series.
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» Confirm Abuse ReportDyannah said:
Jul 1, 2009 at 10:06 AMI find it interesting that NASCAR didn't penalize Scott and Brian for their contact during the cool-down lap. As far as I'm concerned their incident was no different then the Kyle and Carl incident last season or the Dale Jr. and Casey incident a couple of months ago. Kyle, Carl, Dale Jr. and Casey all received 6 weeks probation. I think Scott and Brian should have received probation too. No driver has the right to use their car to express their displeasure with another driver anywhere on the track.
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» Confirm Abuse Reportgibsongroup said:
Jul 1, 2009 at 12:21 PMQuite frankly I think Red Bull needs TWO new drivers. Neither of them is living up the their hype and it's time for Red Bull to step up their game or get out of the sport!
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» Confirm Abuse Reportvgkoala said:
Jul 1, 2009 at 12:33 PMI also find it odd that they would need RB mgmt there during their "talk". Don't most drivers just call the other on the phone or see them briefly at the track to clear up these matters. Everytime SS talks about something he treats it as a joke. He needs to learn that everything is not funny. Seems he is just fueling the fire with his comments after the cup race and with this interview. Why was he being interviewed anyway? Vickers would probably be more than willing to let it go if SS would just shut up as he probably has much more important things to deal with than the tweeb.
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» Confirm Abuse ReportWerner said:
Jul 1, 2009 at 2:24 PM#13...about time NASCAR doesn't penalize the drivers for every darn little thing they were doing...it got out of hand...the drivers couldn't even show any emotions or say what they wanted to...no one got hurt...let them be racers...but as i said about SS before...he thinks he does no wrong...
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» Confirm Abuse Reportmariep75 said:
Jul 1, 2009 at 3:11 PMIn my opinion, these hot shots need to be made to help in the repairs when they do this nonsense, if they owned the cars they damaged or had to fix them, they might not be so reckless in their actions. In the old days you made your own repairs when you wrecked and you did not have a hauler, you had a tow bar to tow your car back home.
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Jul 1, 2009 at 5:28 PMi would just sue them if they repeatedly banged on my car
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» Confirm Abuse Reportwaterwalker26 said:
Jul 1, 2009 at 8:21 PMDid ya all see SS's qualifying run at sonoma? Man he had that baby cranking, a top 5 for sure. Then blew one of the last turns,Can he figure out these heavy cars? If he ever does look out, he can drive. I just wish he would just shut that mouth up! Too much red bull makes a person goofy I think. Please Media dont interview him. PLEASE PLEASE!
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» Confirm Abuse Reportwaterwalker26 said:
Jul 1, 2009 at 8:24 PMOh by the way would A.J. dingbat be any better in that red bull car. Bet Red Bull is kicking themselves.
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» Confirm Abuse ReportSS396Chevelle said:
Jul 2, 2009 at 3:40 PMRed Bull is looking to hookup with Hendrick and Chevy for next year. Remember they foot the entire bill.
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» Confirm Abuse Reportbenflorance said:
Jul 2, 2009 at 3:48 PMi always thought that one of those unwritten rules of nascar was to never wreck your teammate...apparently speed didnt get the memo
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» Confirm Abuse Reportamalycke said:
Jul 2, 2009 at 4:00 PMevidently Vickers didnt get the memo
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