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Duckv said:
With the "boxes" comment, was he referring to the COT, or the double yellow line rule? I gathered that he was complaining about the line rule, which of course was the talk of the pre race show (even showing the driver meeting and specifically the NASCAR official talking about the rule) and saying that in effect the wreck was the fault of the rule. No rule, BK would've maybe moved down so that the wreck didn't happen. Course maybe not, cause he probably wasn't thinking a whole lot about giving CE room to possibly take away BKs first win.

CE not only got through that wreck unhurt, but he was in such good shape that he ran across the finish line. Pretty cool move.

Michael McDowell is not dead after last year's qualifying crash. Clint Bowyer and the other guy in the blue car (71 or 72, I don't recall) hit the wall so hard yesterday in the big one that it is amazing they walked away. I've heard and read a lot of bitching about the COT, but I haven't heard safety being cited in that bitching.

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"Talladega is short for 'We're going to crash, we just don't know when,"' said Ryan Newman, the third-place finisher, who also recalled Matt Kenseth's fiery tumble in the Nationwide Series race on Saturday.

"We saw that two times this weekend, so maybe we need to look at things that keep the car down on the ground."

Ryan is an engineer.

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