Instead, he punted into the wall JR Motorsports team Cole Whitt on lap 50.
Patrick was furious when she won her race car damaged in the garage area, the crew chief Tony Eury Jr. and the crew helped restore GoDaddy Chevrolet crumpled. Once these repairs have been made, and, finally, the race was in its final phase, Patrick was out of his door.
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She will return to competition with 22 laps left and eventually finished 38th in the race, which ended with a huge accident on the front of the field, like Kurt Busch, Kyle Busch and Tony Stewart had to fight for victory in the final round. Joey Logano moved outside while Trevor Bayne was Stewart. Bain moved to the car Logano, Stewart pinched in the fourth turn wall, causing a crash that ended the great race.
James Buescher unexpectedly survived the win followed by Brad Keselowski Chevrolet Dodge inch Chevrolet drivers to close the five Elliott Sadler third, fourth and fifth rookie Austin Dillon Witt. But more on that later.
It was a NASCAR race, where he was sure Patrick would have been. But his moment of glory did not last long, and this led to his fiery temper and a long cooling period, while his car was repaired.
“I wish,” said Eury. “I prefer to take the old stove cold. I as competitive as I am. I want to get after him. I would prefer to reassure her, of having to dismiss. When you are in business in this place you will say that anywhere, and it’s part of sport.
“Heck, I’m Dale Earnhardt Jr. was 10 years ago.”
As a passenger of the pole, Patrick decided outside the band, and did not start the race at home, so she could get a boost from his Nationwide Series team owner Earnhardt. This strategy works well as Earnhardt pushed her into the leadership and away from the field two cars in tandem. But Bane and Ricky Stenhouse developed before the attack tandem Circle 3. Its owner Sprint Cup team, Stewart teamed up with former Indianapolis 500 winner Sam Hornish Jr., Patrick fell to fifth place.
Patrick looked like a yo-yo in the first 20 laps the race. He disappeared in the fifteenth to team up with Stewart to move ahead in the seventh, but fell to 13. But such is the nature of this style of racing in tandem is in fashion, because in the form of national cars. At one point she even wiped off the outside wall, but was able to continue.
Patrick was the fourth when Jason Bowles blew on lap 30, but disappeared all the way back to 24th place on lap 45. When she hit teammate Whitt five laps later, Patrick said on the radio: “This [beep] was he thinking?”
“He hit the [beep] you,” Eury Jr., said.
When Patrick returned to the racetrack, she thanked her team for taking the time to get her back on track, but has received only one position on their return.
“Guys, thank you for getting the car back together, at least for a few rounds,” she said. “All these little things back at the end of the year.”
The race eventually will be anarchy, but Patrick was able to get away and make the most of a bad day – one that was filled with so much promise before – then Patrick Witt had a chance to explain the incident.
“We’re just a bunch of great races and went into turn three, there is little dick, little on the side a bit, save it, hit again and could not keep it,” said Patrick. “Have you seen the rest from there. I do not think it’s great when teammates get together, but we need to understand what happened and move forward.
“Before my car was very, very quickly. Even when the guys were racing in tandem in front of me I could hang right with them. GoDaddy car was very fast. Oblom is not only a championship at home, and now I’m in the championship and in all matters of race, and all specific questions, so we went there, but there are other days when your car is not big or is not perfect super fast, and nothing will happen to you Why do you think of those days when you fast the machine is supposed to happen today. But he was, and we move forward. ”
Witt managed to escape and survive the fourth.
“She came out, and the shooter simply say,” Put them together and go. I just tried to sit with her, “said Witt.” I gave him a boost, and she went too far. Just try to hang back, I think I just rushed. I mean, it’s just plate racing. There are not many places to do it, just trying to do something. It is probably too early anyway.
“I did not turn around or anything. He was just trying to sit down and do a tandem of two cars and was turned to her. I joke around, and it is likely that its transform. I did the rear bumper in the wrong place at the wrong time, you know? So in this regard. I like a joke, it is a corner. As I said, I did it once on the back stretch is quite good, and it probably took away from me too. When backing up to me to get to the corner, I gave her another push. Just trying to get hooked and could not do it. ”
When Witt was said that Patrick was fuming mad, he expected a response.
“I do not expect to be happy about it,” said Witt. “I would not be happy about it too. I do not know why everyone expects it to be like, “Oh yes, it’s great. We are teammates. We want our team to win, and that is why we tried to push each other in any way. We want our team to come together. ”
Both pilots say, because Eury will see this. The person responsible for the JR Motorsports does not expect the enmity between the two teammates and I’m sure it will be old news when the two return to action next week at Phoenix International Raceway.
“She was angry, I was fine,” said Eury. “It’s very sad, but I never sat on the pole here and I was tickled to death. I want to win this race, and work better, but that’s part of the race. We had a good weekend and a half. This race. We still have 32. Our biggest operation in coming here to work very well in the first 10 races for a chance at the championship. We now move to Phoenix and Las Vegas, and we need to get out of the window and do some solid ground. ”
At the end of the race gave the fans a lot of action, excitement and even the carnage that fans expect to see at Daytona International Speedway. And it also produced a surprise winner at the end, big names were involved in an accident high in the fourth round at the end of the race.
“It happened very quickly, but it was slow at the moment,” said Buescher. “They all just turned into a wall together, and I had time to talk about my car down and get to the platform. I had just passed through, dodged all the bullets and was the only car to get to the front. It’s great that we conducted on the last lap. We have not mentioned earlier. But I prefer the final round will be easy and seal as we did today. ”
Patrick was able to give a moment’s reflection, but he understands that there is still a race at Daytona this weekend. This is his first career Sprint Cup start in the biggest race of them – Daytona 500.
“It’s so frustrating when you have one of these kids in the car and disappeared,” she said. “There are days when you do not have such a machine, and nobody finds your firewall shocks. It’s very frustrating when you have a fast car, Tony Eury Jr. and gave me a great and sat on the pole. I thought it was fun and quite chaotic. I’m glad the fans entertained.
“Obviously, we have the Daytona 500 tomorrow for the first time. I can not stop now. I have to harness and focus on things I need to get ready for tomorrow and the big day. I hope we will have a better day. “
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