HE DID IT FOR DANICA?
Last week in Martinsville, while
relaxed far away from the track during her off weekend from the Nationwide series,
her co-pilot of the No. 10 Stewart-haas/tommy Baldwin Racing machine, brought out an ill-timed caution with just three laps left of the 500-lap race. The caution bunched up the leaders and led to a huge wreck that ended the days of and
who had battled all day to give his 200th NASCAR Sprint Cup Series win.
The blame game started immediately after the race. dive-bombed into the corner …
got into Bowyer … Reutimann should have gotten off the track … Reutimann was keeping the car on the track so it would stay in the Top 35 in points and Patrick wouldn’t have
If you had plunked down a little cash on (right), you could have made a nice chunk of change. He was a 45-1 underdog before the Mas- to qualify for the May 12 race at Darlington ...
After the first five races of the season — in which owner points are based on the previous season — only the top 35 cars in owner points are locked into the race. The rest must qualify on time. If Reutimann had finished just one position higher, the ride he shares with Patrick would have been in the top 35.
Reutimann was quick to fight back, saying he did it for himself and his team.
“I just hate that I was involved in anything that changed the complexion of the race so I got to apologize to the guys that it affected,” he said. “I was just trying to limp around there. We needed to finish the next couple of laps to try to stay in the top 35. We were coming to pit road, and it shut off. And that’s as far as I could go.” Danica Patrick now will have to qualify her car for the race at Darlington on May 12. ters started, an 8-1 underdog going into the final round and a 3-2 underdog before his playoff with