Busch was 100% sure of win, blames Earnhardt

Kyle Busch points finger at Earnhardt

What happened that took you out of the race?
"I'm not sure. Some guys having some bad days and not doing their best out there. Made their bad day our bad day and we had a problem. It's just a shame, that M&M's Toyota was so, so strong today and led all those laps and was running up front. I was just playing with my teammate up there and having a great time. It was just unfortunate that two guys got together that were a lap down and were fighting over nothing."

What did you see in the accident?
"One guy that had problems all day on pit road [Earnhardt Jr.] made his problems our problems and then our problems a big problem. It was just unfortunate with that and it was really uncalled for to have two lapped cars to be racing each other and bumping each other like that. You'll have that I guess in big time auto racing."

How strong was your car before the accident?
"I think we were the best car out there. Us, the 24 (Jeff Gordon) was strong, the 11 (Denny Hamlin) was strong, a couple other guys that we were battling with, but felt like our car was the car to beat. We were awfully good and just running out front and biding our time. I don't think we fell worse than sixth or fifth the whole time out there. Just a really sad feeling."

How frustrated are you that two lapped cars caused the accident?
"It is what it is — I'm not going to change anything now. It's unfortunate that a guy that's messed up his whole day on pit road and screwed up that he has to make our day worse. It wasn't our problem that he was a lap down and fighting with another lapped car — I don't know even what they were fighting for because the outside lane was coming. Those cars just should have sat there and waited and got back in line when they could."

How surprised are you that Dale Earnhardt Jr. was involved in the accident?
"I'm not really very surprised. It doesn't matter — it could be anybody out here."

Is it hard to ease back in with the 'yellow line rule'?
"It's not very difficult to ease back in, you just role out of the throttle and fall back in line." [Basically saying Earnhardt is a wanker.]

How big of a mistake was that for the other drivers?
"It looked pretty big to me — it cost the winning car the chance to win the race."

How confident are you that you were going to win the race?
"100 percent."