I saw Ryan (Newman) coming up in my mirror and I've seen a lot of cars behind me in practices, but I've never seen one come up so close.

We just didn't have the speed the Newman-Haas cars have,

I kind of saw it coming, and then Ryan flew up in there, hit the curb and hit Danica, ... I was concerned, so concerned something like that could happen I hung back ... because we had such a good car.

Ryan Newman has already told me he's going to knock the crap out of me on the track.

It wasn't a fake - he saw the defense coming and knew he couldn't get the kick off. We forgot to tackle him. We had 'em dead in the water and the fish got away.

Newman said. ''But he just never was able to walk away with it. I got back underneath him coming off of [Turn] 2 and he had to check up a little bit because the wall was there. We raced clean, we raced hard, we had fun.