Montoya was contending for a top-10 finish at Texas on lap 263 when he obviously angered Gilliland, who basically took him out. “It’s frustrating when idiots get in the way,” said Montoya. “He just put me in the wall … If I wanted to wreck him, I would’ve wrecked him.” NASCAR officials “parked” Gilliland’s Ford for the rest of the race.

My take: “There had been two incidents between the two on the lap preceding the crash. This looked about as blatant as it gets.”

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