Feud of the Week: Jeff Burton vs. Dale Earnhardt Jr.

 



 

Earnhardt took the blame for a crash that eliminated him and Burton, but Burton took no offense. After emerging from the infield hospital, where he and Earnhardt talked, Burton said, “He just said he didn't get lined up and just caught me in the quarter panel wrong. When you push like that and draft like that, it’s going to happen. I did it all day long. I had a few times when I thought I was turn somebody around and didn't. It’s just the nature of the beast. He did not do anything wrong. I'm not mad about it.”

My take: Perhaps the victim of another crash, A.J. Allmendinger, said it best: ‘I hate this place. I always have and always will.”

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