For the third time in just under two months, Rajah Caruth left a NASCAR O\u2019Reilly Series race feeling as though Jesse Love had valid reasons to be frustrated with him.<\/p>\n
This time at Dover, racing for the lead on Lap 100, Caruth bobbled under Love and they both ended up in the wall. It significantly damaged the Richard Childress Racing No. 2 and Love could only drive it to a 23rd place finish.<\/p>\n
For his part, Caruth finished 13th.<\/p>\n
\u201cThere is a lot I needed to do different there,\u201d Caruth said. \u201cI wasn\u2019t the cleanest on my execution there. I took a race-winning car and finished outside the top 10 and damaged it.\u201d<\/p>\n
Caruth was also involved in a separate crash shortly afterwards when he bobbled under Harrison Burton. In this incident, Burton was struggling and backed-up to Caruth. At the same time, Sammy Smith got under Caruth and loosened him up to trigger the ordeal.<\/p>\n
But the incident with Love comes off previous incidents at Martinsville and Rockingham. In that latter, Caruth personally apologized to Richard Childress Racing\u2019s O\u2019Reilly Series director Danny Lawrence.<\/p>\n
Caruth felt like Love raced him tight, but the contact was still his responsibility.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt was up to me to control the car,\u201d he said. \u201cWe are all racing hard. It\u2019s up to me to control the car and obviously sorry to those guys. I just didn\u2019t think I\u2019d get that loose into the corner. I should have had the hindsight in the moment to live for another corner. It was a really good car and I made my day way harder than it needed to be.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019ve said sorry a lot and I don\u2019t know how to handle that. I\u2019ve been in the wrong the last two times.<\/p>\n
\u201cAnd it hasn\u2019t been anything on purpose, I\u2019m just racing for my life out here. Nothing is guaranteed, I don\u2019t know what my future holds. I feel like I need to make the most of the opportunities I have. I\u2019ve crossed over and gotten too aggressive with it this year. I\u2019m just trying to make the most of it.\u201d<\/p>\n
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