The 19-year-old was a lap down when Busch passed Kevin Harvick for the lead. As Busch and Harvick rounded Turn 4, Austin inexplicably cut down the track and directly into Busch.
Replays showed his hand was out the window motioning his intent to move down the track, but he never knew the traffic was on his inside. He was radioing his team to inform them of a tire problem at the exact time his spotter tried to tell him about Busch and Harvick.
“I heard a lot of fans were happy about it — that’s how I knew it was Kyle,” Austin said of the crowd’s positive reaction to Busch wrecking. The Associated Press
“I saw a slow car up high,” Busch said. “He came right across the nose right in front of me. I didn’t know where to go besides where I was [already] going. I had Harvick on my inside, but he was able to miss it.”
“Pretty unfortunate there that we got caught up in that mess,” Busch added. “[The car] was coming right to the front, got all the way up there and was taking the lead, but you know, mistakes happen sometimes.”
Austin claimed a cut tire caused the incident.
“I was on the radio telling [my spotter] that the tire blew, and we had problems anyway since I bumped the corner coming out of [turn] two and blew the tire coming out of four, and the car just started turning down the track,” Austin said.
Busch’s lead over Edwards is now 248 points. MiamiHerald.com
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