Earnhardt says he's not sore about Busch wreck at Richmond

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By Dustin Long
The Virginian-Pilot
© May 5, 2008

Dale Earnhardt Jr. said today that he can't be too critical of Kyle Busch for their late-race incident at Richmond on Saturday night because, Earnhardt admitted, he crashed Busch at Kansas last year to all but end Busch's title hopes.

Busch says that incident last year didn't cause what happened Saturday night. Both drivers say they want to talk to each other later this week

"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,'' Earnhardt said.

For more on this, check out Dustin Long's blog and Tuesday's Virginian-Pilot.

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bully busch

Submitted by mark penland on Mon, 05/05/2008 at 2:16 pm.

Just for once I'd like to see "BULLY" Busch tell the truth. He said " I didn't feel like I slipped, but we just kind of banged simultaneously". I lost a lot of respect for that guy when he said this. The replays I saw on my big screen HDTV clearly showed "BULLY" got loose under Dale Jr. and THEN he corrected, or over corrected and drove up into Dale Jr. Men admit their faults and mistakes and accept the blame. Diving on the sword is what we call it at my house. Obviously "BULLY" can't do this.
I'll give you one more example. In Friday nights Race on the last lap when Steven Wallace got into the back of "BULLY" it was because "BULLY" got really loose coming off the corner, not because Steven rammed him from behind like "BULLY" thought. "BULLY" then retalliates and drives all over Wallace and shoots him up the track. Talk about on track retalliation. Then he has the gall to confront Steven after the race saying, "If you mess with the Bull, you end up getting the horns". Sounds like "BULLY" needs some time in the penalty box with Mikey Waltrip.
The thing is, without "BULLY" taking out Dale Jr., we would've seen one hell of a finish between them, and that's what I wanted to see,