Cleetus McFarland earns first NASCAR finish after eventful race<\/a><\/p>\nCaruth: Obviously I didn’t mean to do that<\/p>\n
Toward the end of talking to reporters after the race, Caruth said: “Yeah, oh, other thing\u2026 Obviously, I got into the No. 2 earlier, and I was just trying to cross behind him. Obviously, I didn\u2019t mean to do that, and obviously, I\u2019ll go over there once we finish up over here. Obviously wanted to do that better, but glad to have a somewhat quiet day at the end.\u201d<\/p>\n
The pair got into it last weekend at Martinsville too, with a couple of members of Love’s crew getting heated at Caruth post-race before their driver waved them off to handle the matter personally, and calmly.<\/p>\n
Love said of the incident: “It\u2019s tough, right? Because, like, me and Danny [Stockman, crew chief] are brothers. And Danny wants me to know that he has my back, and I really do appreciate that. But it\u2019s also my job to let Danny know I appreciate that and let me handle it, right?<\/p>\n
“Because I don\u2019t know if Danny knows this, but I see Rajah a lot. Me and Raj have a good working relationship, and I felt comfortable that I could have a conversation with him without just having a yelling match and having to get crew chiefs and engineers involved and people screaming at each other.\u201d<\/p>\n
Caruth admitted fault in the incident, and added: \u201cWe train together and I think ultimately, we both have a lot of respect for each other. And I heard where he was coming from and he heard where I was coming from. I owe them grace moving forward for a little bit, just because I impacted their day \u2013 not only mine, but theirs, not well at the end. Just didn\u2019t do the best job.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s important for the drivers just to talk about it because we can discuss it and not, like, come to blows or anything like that. And that\u2019s all that was. Like I said, I was in the wrong there. Kind of out of character for me. I don\u2019t know what my thought process there was honestly, so I just won\u2019t do that again.\u201d<\/p>\n
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