Jeff Green and his No. 66 Chevrolet team were well on their way to a top-15 finish in the Chevy Rock-N-Roll 400 Nextel Cup Series race at Richmond International Raceway in September, 2006.
But the team’s strong run was negated by two on-track incidents involving Jimmie Johnson, the second of which resulted in NASCAR sending Green to the garage for the remainder of the night. Green was credited with a 41st-place finish.
The first encounter happened around lap 252, when Johnson got into the back of Green coming out of a turn, sending the No. 66 car spinning into the outside retaining wall. The nose on Green’s Chevrolet was damaged in the accident, and Green’s Haas CNC team spent the next 48 laps cutting away damaged sheet metal and replacing the car’s radiator. Green returned to the race around lap 300, in 40th position.
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