Eliminated drivers fuming over Talladega finish

Eliminated drivers fuming over Talladega finish, The Chase for the Sprint Cup is over for Matt Kenseth, Denny Hamlin, Ryan Newman and Dale Earnhardt Jr., and Junior is the alone affiliate of the accumulation who larboard Talladega Superspeedway in a affable mood.

Kenseth and Hamlin both said Kevin Harvick concluded the CampingWorld.com 500 aboriginal by carefully causing a crash, and Newman acutely wasn’t admiring with NASCAR’s end-of-race procedures.

After the race, Hamlin went on his Twitter annual to alarm the day “complete crap. Sorry to anyone who spent $ advancing to this circus.”

Earnhardt Jr., who absent a adventitious to beat closing chase champ Joey Logano because of the attention that concluded the race, said he accustomed the after-effects as allotment of the game.

Kenseth, who has won 5 contest this year but won’t be allotment of the eight-driver accumulation advancing the championship, could almost accommodate his annoyance afterwards the race.

“It’s disappointing, but it was a little bit of a bazaar at the end,” he said. “It feels like we absent ascendancy the endure two weeks.”

He said the closing laps of the chase “wasn’t absolutely antagonism to be honest with you. It was just a agglomeration of amateur traveling on.”

Neither Hamlin nor Kenseth had able cars.

Hamlin’s day was decrepit by an odd problem. The escape bear on the roof of his Toyota popped loose, costing the aggregation several laps in the pits for repairs.

“Our issues were self-inflicted,” Hamlin said. “We had the roof appear apart, and it took us out of the Chase. I saw it was arise accessible at one point in the race, but I didn’t anticipate it was too big an issue. It took us four stops to get it down.

“This is a boxy way to end our season. It’s tough, but we’ll just move on to next year.”

Newman, who absent the Chase blow by three points, addressed questions about the end of the chase with acrimony afterwards NASCAR aborted the aboriginal attack at a green-white-checkered finish.

Asked about the final restart, Newman said, “Which one? The final, final restart? Or the one area we were alone traveling to accept one and not any more? And again the No. 4 causing the crash. Which one do you wish me to allocution about?”

NASCAR afflicted its end-of-race action for Sunday’s event, announcement during the anniversary that – if all-important – it would extend the chase by alone one green-white-checkered attack instead of the accepted three.

“Well, I assumption if you appear up with a new aphorism every week, we’ll accept something to allocution about, won’t we?” Newman said.
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