Kyle Busch Bristol Post-Race Questions and Answers:

Q. Carl said that after the race your indiscernible “Well, what happened was I kind of ran into him.” Does it cut any ice at all that he at least admitted how he won?
KYLE BUSCH: No, because he does that and he’ll always come back and say he’s sorry. He did it at Milwaukee and he’s done it a few other times. It’s just his normal fashion. That’s fine. I’ve grown to know that now. You know, to pass a guy, to hit him getting into the corners and chatters is very tired, is what he did. But I tried to get him back, but I thought better of it and tried to pull down and pass him back. But I didn’t have a good enough car to stick, and Denny got to his outside and he got by me, and then I had to battle with him towards the end. We were as clean as could be, of course, but just one other dude we had a problem with.

Q. Carl suggested that is a rivalry now. Would you agree with that or would you just keep racing the field?
KYLE BUSCH: How many do I need.

Q. Do you anticipate any kind of a penalty from NASCAR for running into Carl after the race?
KYLE BUSCH: Couldn’t tell you. It’s NASCAR’s decision and their discretion. He spun me out. So I just, you know, got into him a little bit and let him know that I didn’t appreciate the way he passed me and he retaliated and ended up spinning me out. So, couldn’t tell you.

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Carl Edwards Bristol Post-Race Questions and Answers:

Carl Edwards

Q.  Going to try to boil four questions down to about one.  No. 1, do you feel like you endeared yourself    were you able to hear the crowd roar when he came up and hit you on the cooldown lap, and you turned him around; did you feel like you sort of endeared yourself by taking out the bad guy in the race and then taking him out    and then taking him out in the race and then taking him out on the cooldown lap when he tried to take you out?
CARL EDWARDS:  No, no, that doesn’t matter to me.  The way this works is    you know, a real smart racer explained it to me this way after he wrecked me and I was real mad.  He said, “I just had to look at your rear bumper and decide if you would do to me before, and you had, and so it was a real simple decision.”Earlier in the year we had a Nationwide race and Kyle was a lot faster than me and he went ahead, and got to my back bumper and just smoked the back bumper of my car and sent me up the racetrack, and after that said, “Sorry, man, my car was just faster.”
So in my mind, I had to ask myself when I went down there in the corner, should I lift and brake early and do the best I can, or should I just kind of give him a little tap and see what happens?  So that’s the way it went, and that’s the decision I made, and you know, I’d do it again.

Q.  And the other part of it, he talked about, he said, “If that’s the way he wants to race, we’ll race him in the Chase that way.
CARL EDWARDS:  Okay.  Here’s the deal.  That all    that doesn’t mean anything.  He’s raced me that way and that’s the reason it went down like that.  That’s it.

Q.  I guess what I’m asking, was this all just the heat of the moment post race, or after tonight can people sort of expect a little bit spicier Chase than maybe they could have before this race started?
CARL EDWARDS:  I don’t know.  I feel like we’re pretty even on my side.  You know, that’s how I feel about it.  I don’t know; I’m sure it will be exciting.  It’s NASCAR and we all want to win really bad, that’s for sure.

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