Gordon, Kenseth have yet to speak about incident
Wednesday, July 12, 2006
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Jeff Gordon says he has yet to talk with Matt Kenseth about their on-track run-in in the USG Sheetrock 400 last Sunday, but he hoped to speak with Kenseth at some point during testing at Indianapolis Motor Speedway.
Gordon made contact with leader Kenseth with three scheduled laps to go in Sunday's NASCAR Nextel Cup race. Kenseth spun and lost the lead and then ran out of gas and crashed again later in the race to finish 22nd. Gordon won the race. Later, Gordon said he viewed the incident as a mere racing accident while Kenseth said he felt Gordon intentionally ran into him.
"I'd certainly like to see him here before I leave here," Gordon said in a media conference during today's final day of testing at Indianapolis Motor Speedway today. "I was hoping just to see him here at the test because I figured we'd all be here. But I haven't had a chance to see him yet."
The move and resulting spin cost Kenseth the chance to take the point lead and led fans to throw trash on the Chicagoland Speedway track in protest after the race. Gordon says he's seen tape of the accident, and his mindset as to how it happened has not changed.
"I've seen it, definitely," he said. "My thoughts haven't changed, you know. I take full responsibility for it. You know, I know that I didn't intentionally try to wreck him. I also know that I had a great run on him. We were running down to final laps. He had already shown me the sign a couple times of, you know, how hard he was going to fight for that position. I definitely stepped up the aggressiveness a notch, and obviously I got into him and spun him. I didn't mean to spin him.
"But if that little rubber touch that I thought was going to happen would have moved him up the racetrack and gotten me the position then, you know, it wouldn't even be an issue right now."
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- Jeff Gordon
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