Danica Patrick ticked at Denny Hamlin after Bristol practice crash

Danica Patrick ticked at Denny Hamlin after Bristol practice crash

It was an aboriginal morning at Bristol Motor Speedway for the additional Sprint Cup convenance afore Sunday's Food City 500, but acquaintance amid Danica Patrick and Denny Hamlin could accomplish for a continued night of adjustments for anniversary chase team.

Late in Saturday's practice, which began at 8:30 a.m. ET, Hamlin abrupt Patrick while aggravating to canyon her at the half-mile Tennessee track. While Patrick accepted her car was abundant slower, she claims it was Hamlin's aberration for not paying absorption to her signals.

“I had just appear out on tires. They were algid and I wasn’t actual acceptable anyway, I was appealing loose," Patrick explained to Fox Sports. "I came down the foreground beeline and I put my feel out the window to point him by, but he hit me on entry. I don’t apperceive if he … it looked like he came appealing abutting if he went to go to the central too. Man, I adulation Denny (Hamlin), but he makes a lot of mistakes abaft me.

"I don’t apperceive if he misjudged it or I was traveling slower than he thought, but I put my feel out the window and acicular him by. I had no ambition to chase him. I was not fast enough. I don’t know, but the guys are traveling to try and fix it.”

Here's what Hamlin had to say to Fox Sports afterwards the incident.

While the appulse acquired right-front accident to Hamlin’s chase car and accident to the left-rear of Patrick’s Chevrolet, neither aggregation is accepted to go to a advancement car for Sunday's Food City 500.

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