Kyle should have backed off?

Brian, Pete, what about Junior diving down towards the bottom of turn 3 and not keeping his previous line that he was running?  Could it be that if Junior had stayed up top the wreck would never had happen?  When I reviewed the tape what I saw was Junior was trying to dive to the bottom and cut Kyle off like his Daddy use to do.  The only problem was that Kyle wasn't intiminated by Junior and held his line.  Junior intiatied the contact and that is when both cars got a little loose and like Kenny Schrader always says, 8 wheels are better than 4.

No to me this was a pure racing incident nothing more nothing less, two competitors going for the win and only one came out of the melay.

I can agree this was a racing incident....... but let's not forget that Kyle spends most of his time on the track bashing into everything but the hot dog stand.

 This incident is escalated because of Kyle's track record and careless driving techniques. If he was the one that hit the wall he would have been screaming and kicking and throwing punches in the pits after the race, at least give Dale credit for acting like a professional.

It's only a matter of time before this kid learns his lesson the HARD way from a veteran driver tired of his BS, 200 mph is no place for stupidity and Kyle is proven to be full of that.

Mikey your exactly right on this one.  Jr. himself even admitted that he went further towards the bottom in turn 3 to keep Kyle pinned down.  But of course the "Nation" probably didn't hear that quote, so they just want to continue bashing Kyle.  Either way Kyle still leads the points and he may not win the cup this year, still way to early to call, but I'd bet he wins a cup long before Jr.  So to the "Nation" you can just keep on hating and blaming every other driver for Jr's mishaps, because it is obvious that even the CBS writers think that Jr. can do no wrong. 

GO JGR!

I am a Jr Fan and do not like Kyle's "disrespectful driving habits", but this was a racing incident. 

I do wish that Denny Hamlin (as much as I like him) would be penalized, should have been black flagged for not keeping speed up, for staying out to cause a black flag.

Then Kyle going off on Jr's crew member for coming over to confront when Kyle did it the night before?!?

housty20,

  I have been saying this since saturday night. Busch drives the same way Dale Sr did, but the Jr "nation" (a bunch of hoods with no respect and little or no knowledge of racing btw), seems to think thier BOY is right every time no matter what. Jr admitted he was more at fault than Busch but here on these message boards and other the Jr fans are whining like Jeff Gordon fans, fitting since Jr was not man enought to stay the course at the team his daddy built just for him, lord knows no one else wanted him driving for them back then. The real sad part of the whole deal with Jr is had he stayed the course and showed Teressa that he indeed had grown up and become a man she would have given him the whole team instead of the half he was demanding like a spoiled brat. Dale Sr had to earn his right to drive, his dad Ralph gave him nothing, it does not take a genius to figure out Big E's plan for dale Jr. In 2000 there were several times Sr said Jr needed to mature alot as a driver, After Dale died Jr became more and more of a whiner, allways something wrong with his car, never once was he saying on the radio, oh my fault, it was allways something with the car. I was a Dale Sr fan from his rookie season, I was sure hoping Dale Jr was like him after Sr died, but it never happened, never will, I will stay the course with Bobby now.  

Marcus,

What interview did you see?  Dale Jr. said flat out that he didn't blame Kyle.  Is he a crybaby because he said he is disappointed to have his car wrecked when it was good enough to win?  He took as much blame for the wreck as anyone.  Besides that, I am a Junior fan but would hardly say that Junior has had a great deal of success at the top level.  With reversed roles Junior would not have done the same thing, he knows enough to save overdriving turns for the last lap.  Either way it doesn't matter the days of nascar as a heart on your sleeve sport are long since over.  Big business has sucked the life right out of a once fun to watch and follow sport and replaced it with a bunch of crybaby sissies with girlie sunglasses and 30 dollar haircuts who drive cars that look like go-carts and don't even offer v8 engines in their stockcar counterparts.  VERY SAD