“After reviewing the comments by Lagano and the replay of the day’s events, I felt that it was necessary to explain what happened during yesterday’s race from my prospective.

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This whole turn of events started with Joey running into the back of my No. 55 in Turn 10. He then knocked me sideways in Turn 11. To show him my displeasure, I ran him down towards the inside wall on the front straight. I tried to do a crossover move in Turn 1 to get back by him; however, I missed judged a little resulting in both of us getting flat tires.

During the final incident that ended Joey’s day, we were racing for the lucky dog position. We both had good cars and were just trying to improve our finishing position for the day. After the bus stop chicane, Joey wrecked the No. 34 of Tony Raines. This contact allowed me to get underneath him in Turn 9. He saw that I was going to pass him for the Lucky Dog position, so he tried to block me. This maneuver resulted in his right rear tire connecting with my left front. From there, I felt he would be okay because he was in the section where the outer loop was. Rather than going down the inner loop, he decided to cut across the grass, hitting the tire barrier.

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RACE RECAP | WATKINS GLEN INTERNATIONAL
10 Scott Speed
9 Brad Keselwoski
8 David Ragan
7 Greg Biffle
6 Jeff Burton
5 Ron Fellows
4 Kevin Harvick
3 Carl Edwards
2 Kyle Busch with his 10th top 2 finish

VICTORY LANE

For the second year in a row, Marcos Ambrose dominates for the road course win in New York. Marcos made a dive bomb move into the bus stop part of the track on Kyle Busch which turned out to be the winning move of the race.

OTHER STORIES ON THE DAY

-Kevin Harvick started on the pole with a track record, and led early

-Robby Gordon and Joey Logano mixed it up resulting in two wrecked race cars, Gordon blew a tire, and Logano hit a tire barrier and caught fire

-Paul Menard, while running up front took the term road course too literally and ended up in the sand trap

-Brian Vickers broke a transmission early in the race

-Ryan Newman had fuel issues

The race has been rescheduled due to rain, and will be run Monday at Noon Eastern on ESPN

1 48 Jimmie Johnson
2 2 Kurt Busch
3 11 Denny Hamlin
4 47 Marcos Ambrose
5 12 David Stremme
6 39 Ryan Newman
7 16 Greg Biffle
8 18 Kyle Busch
9 08 Boris Said
10 42 Juan Pablo Montoya
11 07 Casey Mears
12 9 Kasey Kahne
13 14 Tony Stewart
14 98 Paul Menard
15 71 Andy Lally
16 13 Max Papis #
17 55 Patrick Carpentier
18 44 A J Allmendinger
19 19 Elliott Sadler
20 83 Brian Vickers
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