Casey Mears post-wreck quotes
WHAT HAPPENED?
“I don’t know. I just saw Michael (Waltrip, No. 55) all the way down on the grass. I don’t know how he got there. It’s always hard to say. But, I’ll tell you what man, this year has been a rough one for the GEICO Chevrolet. We just can’t get started. We’ve had good speed and probably some of the best cars, but we cannot start the season. It’s one thing or another every single race. We’ve got to keep looking at the positive side but for some reason cannot get through a race. This is a tough race to expect to get through. You expect something to happen, but that was pretty odd. It looked pretty dicey. I don’t know if somebody wanted to get by the No. 55 really bad or what the deal was, but it was a little aggressive early."
DO YOU THINK GUYS ARE RACING TOO HARD TOO EARLY JUST BECAUSE OF THE WEATHER AND RAIN THREAT?
“It’s hard to say. These races are always like that. You try to guestimate why somebody’s mentality is the say it is. My mentality was ‘go’. So, I don’t blame anybody else for wanting to go, but unfortunately when he went down into the grass, I knew he went down there and I lost him in the A-post in my blind spot and I just stood on the gas and I was hoping that we were going to clear him and hoping that he got slowed down before he went back up the track, but I completely lost him in my blind spot and by the time I saw him, he hit us in the left rear. It’s disappointing. I think if we were sitting better the first part of the year, we’d come to Talladega and have a bad day and probably be a little bit more okay with it. But right now it’s a tough one to swallow because we needed a good day."