Just when you thought it was safe to close the books on the Sprint Cup race in Bristol, David Reutimann says Kyle Busch has thrown down a verbal challenge.
While most of us were waiting for a Brad Keselowski payback on Busch, NASCAR’s first hat-trick winner at Bristol, that didn’t happen.
Instead, Busch made a put down about Reutimann, who finished second in Saturday night’s Cup event.
Busch, still flush with his historical three-peat on one weekend said: “Reutimann was fast, and he was good, and I’m not going to say why I beat him because then he’ll fix it.”
Okay, had Busch stopped there, there would be no offense, but he did continue.
“But it has to do with behind the wheel,” Busch said, then added “he wasn’t driving the place right. I’m sorry. If he fixes how to drive this place, he’d be right there with me.”
On Wednesday, on Sirius XM radio, Reutimann took umbrage to Busch’s statement.
“If Kyle says it, it’s gospel. It’s probably the stupidest comment I’ve ever heard anybody say at any given time because everyone’s cars drive exactly the same. Everyone’s cars are identical. Nobody’s cars drive any different, so the guy who wins does a phenomenal job and the guy who finishes 43rd is just terrible because every one of the cars are identical. They drive exactly the same.”
Reutimann, the otherwise mild-mannered driver, was on a roll as he added: “let’s cut to the chase, he makes a comment like that after the race, he’s not driving my frickin’ racecar and I‘m not driving his. Every driver has to do different things inside their car to make it do what it needs to do because technically a lot of times a car’s not perfect, so you have to do things differently. Sometimes your car won’t do what another guy’s car will.”
Then Reutimann resorted to sarcasm when he said “I don’t (know) if it’s the fact that Superman’s cape was flying out the back when I was behind him, and I couldn’t see or what the deal was (as) the reason that I couldn’t pass him. Either way, we ran second. We got beat fair and square, that’s what it came down to. We just got outrun. But again, professor Busch, maybe he can start a driving school at Bristol and the rest of the field we can all join in and go. He can show all of us what we‘re doing wrong. I need help.”
And for the payoff he added: "It all comes down to we don’t like each other very much. It’s been (going on for) a while. We just don’t like each other, and we agree that we don’t like each other and we’re fine with it. We’re pretty honest about it. I’m good with it.”
While most of us were waiting for a Brad Keselowski payback on Busch, NASCAR’s first hat-trick winner at Bristol, that didn’t happen.
Instead, Busch made a put down about Reutimann, who finished second in Saturday night’s Cup event.
Busch, still flush with his historical three-peat on one weekend said: “Reutimann was fast, and he was good, and I’m not going to say why I beat him because then he’ll fix it.”
Okay, had Busch stopped there, there would be no offense, but he did continue.
“But it has to do with behind the wheel,” Busch said, then added “he wasn’t driving the place right. I’m sorry. If he fixes how to drive this place, he’d be right there with me.”
On Wednesday, on Sirius XM radio, Reutimann took umbrage to Busch’s statement.
“If Kyle says it, it’s gospel. It’s probably the stupidest comment I’ve ever heard anybody say at any given time because everyone’s cars drive exactly the same. Everyone’s cars are identical. Nobody’s cars drive any different, so the guy who wins does a phenomenal job and the guy who finishes 43rd is just terrible because every one of the cars are identical. They drive exactly the same.”
Reutimann, the otherwise mild-mannered driver, was on a roll as he added: “let’s cut to the chase, he makes a comment like that after the race, he’s not driving my frickin’ racecar and I‘m not driving his. Every driver has to do different things inside their car to make it do what it needs to do because technically a lot of times a car’s not perfect, so you have to do things differently. Sometimes your car won’t do what another guy’s car will.”
Then Reutimann resorted to sarcasm when he said “I don’t (know) if it’s the fact that Superman’s cape was flying out the back when I was behind him, and I couldn’t see or what the deal was (as) the reason that I couldn’t pass him. Either way, we ran second. We got beat fair and square, that’s what it came down to. We just got outrun. But again, professor Busch, maybe he can start a driving school at Bristol and the rest of the field we can all join in and go. He can show all of us what we‘re doing wrong. I need help.”
And for the payoff he added: "It all comes down to we don’t like each other very much. It’s been (going on for) a while. We just don’t like each other, and we agree that we don’t like each other and we’re fine with it. We’re pretty honest about it. I’m good with it.”