Corey LaJoie talks what happened from his side on the final stage wreck with Kyle Busch at Pocono Raceway.
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00:00Corey Lejoy brings it home 19th today at Pocono. Corey, that incident there
00:04between you and Kyle Busch, from your perspective, what happened?
00:07The restarts were so crazy there. If you have any sort of momentum you got to take it
00:12and you got to go to the bottom to just kind of stake your ground and I got a
00:15big push from the 16 and it was like four wide and I went to the left rear
00:22of the eight and he blocked it once and I kind of stayed straight. I was
00:26anticipating kind of our bumpers lining up and then you know kind of pushing
00:29him forward and maybe him taking the lane but he blocked again when I had a
00:33little more position on him and spun him out. I hate to take out him and
00:37smaller guys but that's just what like that's what you have to do. You have to
00:42take momentum when you have it because if you don't the guy behind you is gonna
00:45put you in a worse spot than you're gonna put the guy in front of you so
00:47that's just that's just how the racing is. You have to be super aggressive on
00:51restarts and sometimes you're the windshield and sometimes you're the bug.
00:54So in hindsight you would not, anything you would have done differently there?
00:58No, you got to take the run you know I don't want to not the guy that wants to
01:05wreck anybody but I think if Kyle blocks only once then we both you know go
01:12around the corner and we live to fight another day but that second block that
01:16he thought he had it covered and he didn't was was what did him in and
01:20did a couple other guys in but man it is really hard. It is so freaking hard to
01:26run 19th I mean it's all I got time hanging out so you have to be perfect we
01:32spent on pit road frustrated about that we had a you know probably a 10th to 14th
01:36place car put us behind the eight ball there you know we're 17 myself we've
01:41been a little bit of a rut but we're gonna start digging our way out of this
01:44and this is a you know we're gonna go to Indy we're gonna have off week then we'll
01:47come back strong for the playoffs. Do you have anything to say to Kyle?
01:53You know I think Kyle and I have been racing around each other long enough we're not
01:56gonna smash into each other on purpose you know we both are our guys that feel
02:01like we belong certainly him but I mean I'm not gonna say sorry I'm not sorry
02:07about it cuz that was the that was the thing I'll end up if she was on the
02:10other foot the exact same thing would happen and I think he would probably say
02:13that so you can listen to Saggin' Pennies this week and you can hear more
02:16about it. Thanks for the time Corey. Thanks Jessica.