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Byline: Curt Cavin
Matt Kenseth had the wrong driver on his rear bumper late in the USG Sheetrock 400 at Chicagoland Speedway.
You remember Jeff Gordon, the Nextel Cup driver Kenseth bumped out of third place at Bristol Motor Speedway in March? Gordon was so irritated by that action that he shoved Kenseth after they climbed from their cars.
This time Gordon did the bumping, though the four-time NASCAR champion tried to say the two incidents were unrelated. And this time Kenseth spun out of the way, rendering him out of contention.
Gordon went on to win for the 75th time in his NASCAR career, his second win in three races. "I dove under him to see if he would overdrive the corner,'' Gordon said of Kenseth. "He came down on me, and I think [the lapped car of Casey Mears] hurt him. He had been getting off the corner pretty well, but he didn't that time, and I got into the back of him. I hated that.''
Kenseth of course had a different point of view.
"That wasn't an accident,'' he said. "He just ran over me.''