Nadeau irate at Newman following accident

BRISTOL, Tenn. - Jerry Nadeau was running in the top-five as the Food City 500 neared halfway Sunday afternoon at Bristol Motor Speedway before a duel with Ryan Newman eliminated him from contention.

	Jerry Nadeau

Nadeau finished 28th, 44 laps down to race winner Kurt Busch.

Newman sat on the Bud Pole following a record-setting lap Friday, but had fallen a lap down when he and Nadeau engaged in a door-to-door battle just past lap 200.

Then, on lap 219, the duo was battling through Turn 4 and got together, forcing Nadeau to hit the brakes.

Unable to avoid Nadeau's No. 01 Pontiac, Brett Bodine hit him in the rear, sending Nadeau spinning into the inside retaining wall near the start/finish line.

"Just typical Bristol," said Nadeau. "Obviously, our minds are somewhere else. It's a shame. It was a great car for us, the U.S. Army Pontiac. Damn lapped-car can't use his head. I don't know what Ryan (Newman) was thinking. He just kept coming down, kept coming down."

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Upon exit from his car, Nadeau ran over to Newman's pit stall to voice his dismay to Newman's team. No harm was done, other than a verbal lashing.

"I told him he needs to use his head," Nadeau said.

Newman said following the event that he thought Brett Bodine was to blame.

"It looked to me like the 11 (Bodine) got into the back of the 01 (Nadeau) on that one deal," Newman said.

Despite posing a threat in the early stages of many events this season, Nadeau has yet to finish better than 22nd.