Kyle Busch and Dale Earnhardt Jr. spoke separately Monday during a break in testing at Lowe's Motor Speedway about their incident Saturday at Richmond.

Earnhardt said that while disappointed he can't speak out too much because he took Busch out at Kansas last year during the Chase, all but ending Busch's title hopes.

Busch said he's reached out to Earnhardt and left a message on Earnhardt's cell phone. Busch says he'd like to talk to Earnhardt about the incident noting that what a driver tells the media isn't what they always say to a fellow driver.

Here's some of what both said Monday:

DALE EARNHARDT JR. 

          “Kyle is just running hard. We were just running hard for the win there. I think, looking at all the stuff, looks like he got loose underneath me and had to correct his car and got into the side of us.

            “Running hard there. It’s unfortunate for both of us. We’ll try to go to Darlington and have a good run and rebound points wise, maybe even try to get a win there, I ain’t never really run that good there, I’ve done OK. Maybe this new asphalt I’ll be a little bit more competitive as far as challenging for the lead and stuff. It’s just hard racing. Kyle has his style of driving. I would have been a little more, I don’t know, maybe I would have been as hard at it as he was. I don’t know. I don’t know what I would have done.

“I took him out at Kansas last year during the chase. That’s really why I wouldn’t be any more angry about it because I would just be hypocritical in that sense. We both kind of been on each side of it now between the two of us, hopefully, once me and him have a chance to talk about it, we can come to some kind of understanding that we don’t ever have to deal with it again and we just go out there and race and try to race each other with a little more respect and have a better outcome.

“The only thing I’m upset with is just not being able to get the points out of it that I should have been able to get. We’ve been working hard to stay consistent all year. I want to get as good a finish I can each week. I’ve been real proud of that. I’ve had a lot of pride in what we’ve been able to do this year and the way we’ve been consistent. That is just a little bit of a bruise on the stats for what we’ve had this year. It won’t show at the end of the year how good we really were that particular weekend and I want to minimize that throughout the season.

KYLE BUSCH:

"As far as Earnhardt and myself, we race each other at the top level of NASCAR racing, we know that it was a racing incident and racing hard for both of us and not really giving each other much room that's a product of Richmond, that's a product of the COT and the hard racing it provides for us.

(DALE JR SAID HE WRECKED YOU AT KANSAS, WONDERED WHERE THE OUTCRY WAS BACK THEN)

"No. Not really. To me, I know what my status is in the garage area with the drivers and I know what my status is with the fans. Obviously, it's a lot worse with the fans than it is in the garage area. For me, it was a tough scenario to have go through last year. I hated for my guys that I had with me working on the team last year. We were doing so well and I think we finished in the top five in every race up to that point adn we were running sixth or seventh when we got wrecked.

"That had nothing to do with this past weekend's incident. That was a product of hard racing Saturday night. Last year is last year. That's behind me. I'm focused more on what is going on with my new team with Joe Gibbs Racing. From what I remember, they signed me on in order to go out and win races and that's what I was trying to do.''

DO YOU NEED TO EVEN TALK TO DALE JR?

"I hope we can talk about it and put it behind us. I've reached out to Junior. I called him earlier this morning and got his voicemail. We'll either see each other in the garage or he'll get back to me later.

WHAT WOULD YOU EVEN NEED TO SAY TO HIM?

"Basically just talk it over little bit, see what his feelings are and what his outlook on the whole deal is. I don't know what he said ... that could be different than what he tells me when he talks to me. He's grown up knowing one of the best in the sport,so I'm sure he's got a lot of knowledge that he can still relay to me. I'd like to listen.''

Listen to both Earnhardt and Busch discuss the incident here.