"How do you race is how are you run"

Kyle Busch gives his point of view on the contact at the end of the race with Kevin Harvick who stole what could have been his sixth win of the 2018 season.

Busch led 36 laps in a race where he he was constantly found bogged down In the top ten, a good pit stop allowed him to control the peloton for the final rally with 39 laps to go.

Busch first escaped, but Kevin Harvick shut down On the rear bumper of machine # 18, he fired a shot at Busch, l & # 39; sending in the groove six laps from the end.

Harvick then crossed the checkered flag while Busch had to settle for second place. 19659003] "You know, that's the race," Busch said after the race. "We had a very bad performance today, our Interstate Camry batteries were not there – they were not there all weekend, we kept fighting all week long -end and we've never made gains Adam (Stevens, the team leader) made very good and very good adjustments – just good adjustments to try to continue to improve. "We controlled the recovery and we left a bit, but we were not the best car on the pit road to put ourselves in this position in the long run.All cars SHR (Stewart-Haas Racing) were really, really good today.They were all fast, so it was going to be hard to hold them back and I was just backing out, and, you know, three, four, five turns of the road. straight and with a faster car, I'm not sure that he (Harvick) had to do it, but he did .. it's fine.

"How do you race is how you ran, so that's good. "

" I was on the way "

This is by no means the first time the two champion pilots But for Harvick, he considered that it was a necessary gesture and even declared that he had no intention of destroying it.Chicago I think that, v We know, he had a fair game: everyone has a good game on Kyle Busch – it's safe for fans, so, you know, that's fine.

"It's like that they want to run, that's how I'm going to run backwards, but, you know, it was just a bump. I mean, it was not a big problem – it did not destroy me or anything like that, so it did it quite early, but it did it a lot louder and pushed me off the beaten path to three lanes and it takes you so long to recover here that it was just impossible I could get back to him, so – and I was more slow anyway.

"I was in the way, so no harm, no fault," he admitted.

Although he felt that it was justified, Busch added He was surprised that Harvick did not even try to make a quick triumph before starting the running.

"When you're slower, I guess you expect it, but you think also that a guy goes I do not think Not that he (Kevin Harvick) ever tried to make me clean when he arrived, he just kept hitting me in the rear bumper every time. harder. "

Busch leaves New Hampshire Motor Speedway as points leader, but Harvick has now eclipsed him in bonus points, which will come at the end of the regular season.