Coppa: Gordon sopravvive giro selvaggio

Coppa: Gordon sopravvive giro selvaggio:On a night abounding with harder impacts, frayed tempers and even Kevin Harvick’s car communicable fire, no one had a scarier Budweiser Shootout than four-time NASCAR Sprint Cup best Jeff Gordon.
For the aboriginal time in his two-decade continued Sprint Cup career, the four-time alternation best begin himself upside down afterwards a alarming blast with two laps to go. Fortunately for Gordon, he was uninjured.
The adventure occurred with two laps to go in the appointed 75-lap ambit at Daytona International Speedway. Heading into Turn 3, Gordon was anon abaft second-place Kyle Busch and baton Tony Stewart.
As they transitioned from Turn 3 to Turn 4, Gordon fabricated acquaintance with Busch’s bumper, sending the Joe Gibbs Racing Toyota down to the apron. Gordon, meanwhile drifted to the alfresco and hit Kurt Busch, the cars four-wide at this point.
When Gordon and Kurt Busch fabricated contact, they both angry harder appropriate into the bank at the avenue of Turn 4. Abaft them, Gordon’s Hendrick Motorsports assistant Jimmie Johnson was tagged by Marcos Ambrose, sending Johnson’s car into Busch and Gordon.
That angry Gordon assimilate his driver’s-side door, area he slid for about 1,000 anxiety afore accomplishing three butt rolls and catastrophe up on his roof on the frontstretch tri-oval. Gordon was able to escape beneath his own power.
After a quick analysis at the Daytona infield medical center, Gordon was released.
“It was just accepting down to the end of the chase and it was time to go,” said Gordon. “Me and Jimmie were searching acceptable there. We knew those guys were coming, and already Kyle got in foreground of me, I was just aggravating to accumulate Jimmie on me and aggravating to break with Kyle.”
That ultimately accepted impossible.
“Every time I got to Kyle’s bumper, he just started accepting so sideways, like he was a lot tonight,” Gordon said. “And I anticipation he was traveling to wreck. I saw him alpha to spin, so I went wide, not alive anyone had gotten to my outside. That got me into those guys and into the bank and forth for a ride. And again Kyle wins the race, so it was a appealing agrarian and crazy way to get it all started. It was absolutely an agitative finish, but not the way our Drive To End Hunger Chevrolet wants to get the 2012 division started.”
Tom Jensen is the Editor in Chief of SPEED.com, Senior NASCAR Editor at RACER and a accidental Editor for TruckSeries.com. You can chase him online at twitter.com/tomjensen100.
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