Said, others upset with Ambrose’ driving style in Mexico City
Quote selected text Published April 21st, 2008 in NASCAR News
Not everyone was pleased with Marcos Ambrose’s career-best finish of second in Sunday’s Corona Mexico 200 at the Autodromo Hermanos Rodriguez. Boris Said was particularly upset with Ambrose, and race winner Kyle Busch didn’t have very nice things to say, either.
“These guys were battling like it was coming to the end of the race, which it was, but we don’t have V8 Supercars and we can’t body slam each other and take each other out,” said Busch, referring to Ambrose’s background of Australian racing. “The 59 [of Ambrose] spun two guys out on the restarts ….”
One of those was Said, a road-racing veteran who threatened retaliation in a future race for an incident between the two drivers on lap 55 of the 80-lap race.
“Marcos Ambrose just cheap-shotted me and took me out,” Said said. “He either made a mistake, or he’s incredibly stupid. He hooked my left rear in Turn 1. He had me sideways for a while and then just turned me around.”
Said also went to Gary Cogswell, Ambrose’s crew chief, “to go apologize to his crew chief because it’s going to cost him a car.”
That wasn’t necessary, Ambrose said.
“There’s no point in getting in the crew chief’s face because he’s not driving the car,” Ambrose said. “I’m going to ring him on Monday, and hopefully sleep will help him just think through things a little bit more. I value Boris’ friendship, and he is a fantastic racer. I didn’t mean to do it.
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Rubbin’s racin’.
Oh wait. This is the new Nascar.
What a bunch of crying, hypocritical, whiners!!!!!! I don’t believe that Kyle Busch, of all people, said that you can’t just hit and bang people. What????? Really????? Then what’s his deal? I’ve seen him do that on many occasion, and besides, as stated by Andy, Rubbin’s racin’. That’s how it is. If a guy is being held up and needs to go, then he should give him a little bump to move him out of the way. I personally saw nothing wrong with how Ambrose raced, though I will admit, I didn’t catch the whole race. Ambrose got results. He knew he had a good car, he was being held up, so he did what he had to do. He says he didn’t mean it, but I think maybe he meant to do it a little bit, maybe not spin him out completely, but I’m sure he intentionally tried to move him, why not?
Fisha695 wrote:
I guess he doesn’t watch much V8 Supercar Racing, or any road racing series.
Number One rule for a road racing series, “If you want to beat and bang, go do it while driving around in circles”
Also I don’t know what Kyle is talking about but you can Body slam each other and do no real damage in a NASCAR Style Stock car more then you can in a Touring car.
And I agree with Dustin about Kyle being a Hypocrite, I like the kid he has more Raw talent then any driver we’ve seen in the last few years, but he just needs a good PR person to train him when to not say stupid stuff like this.
Ambrose did a bang up job on Sunday, pun intended..
The driver went for it and got results (2ond place) thats what he is paid to do.
It was stated and documented that passing was going to be a rub and run deal so whats the fuss..
For my part I thought it was better than the last couple of Cup races I watched. Good action lots of momentum many different little struggles to watch and a great last 20 laps so when have we seen that from Cup lately ?? I didn’t like the finishing order so much but a good race anyway.
Agree with you guys… Kyle has no room to talk whatsoever! I thought there were a few times that Ambrose was a little overly agressive. It seems like he took someone else out in turns 1 and 2 after the Boris incident.
It was hard to tell from ESPN’s camera angles, but I thought it looked like Ambrose probably got into Boris a little coming out of #1, which got him loose like everyone saw on the video, then dumped him. At the very least, he should have backed off when Boris got loose, regardless of why he was loose. Instead he just dumped him. He ought to know just as well as anyone that those restarts can be pretty dicey and given a little room. If he was the faster car, there was more than enough time to overtake him (think about 25 laps to go if I remember).
who cares—-just more whinning!
well we will have to see if Boris makes good on his promise of Ambrose’s crew chief needing a new car. I say he forgets the whole thing by time we get to Infineon.
Drama, we don’t need no stinking Drama.The Hypocrite Cryer…Staring Ky.Busch.
Racin is rubbin son
I REMEMBER A GUY THAT WON A LOT OF RACES BY SPINNING SOMEONE INTO THE WALL AND HE WAS A HERO………….I THINK HIS NUMBER WAS 3 ………
Don’t even try to compare those two
Wait a second… “Kyle Busch” is upset with someone’s driving style??? Wow, that is the “pot calling the kettle black” if I have ever seen it.
Kyle Busch, and his brother before him, are the pure Nascar definition of reckless. Stick it up you back side Busch.
As far as Bois said - I remember a truck race back 10 years ago or so when Boris intentionally stayed back in order to intentionally take out Rich Bickle. It occurred at a road course - possible Heartland Topeka. So Boris, do the same as I instructed Busch to do above!
Regards,
dkcrasher wrote:
DKCRASHER: Unfortunately you have to compare the two, Earnhardt probably
got a quarter of his wins by taking people out.
can’t wait to see robby gordon in the road race with ambrose and KYLE BUSCH. KYLE BETTER TAKE COVER LOL!
Guest your an idiot Dale sr. could move cars out of the way masterfly,without “taking people out” I defy you to name one time he actully wrecked someone to win a race other than Bristol ‘96 nite race “Rattle him” race with Terry Labonte.There is NO comparism.
Who cares if you wreck people to win, a Win is a Win no matter how you get it.
Fisha695 wrote:
That mindset isn’t in the drivers in the new generations.
Now they’d rather settle for a top 5 and keep the
car clean (unless they have a car they know can
win, but usually they’re not strong enough) rather
than rough ‘em up and hope to get by.