Biffle, Kenseth have moved on after Talladega wreck (cont'd)

"I was disappointed it happened because we were almost out of contention and I thought we were going to have a good day and gain some points and maybe be a contender again if we could get it back to around 100 points [behind] or something like that. And then we got wiped out. So yes, I was disappointed. I thought Carl knew better. He's been preaching about being careful and working together and teammates and all this stuff, so I was disappointed it happened. But yet it was an accident and that stuff will happen."

Biffle said after looking at the accident on tape, it was obvious that Edwards simply miscalculated the angle and aggressiveness of the push that Edwards attempted to give him through the corner.

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It was just probably a miscalculation on his part. I know he didn't mean to do it. Certainly he didn't want to wreck himself -- because that's what he did. Certainly that wasn't his intention and I understand that.

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-- GREG BIFFLE

"It was just probably a miscalculation on his part. I know he didn't mean to do it. Certainly he didn't want to wreck himself -- because that's what he did. Certainly that wasn't his intention and I understand that," Biffle added.

"All we can do is learn from it and go on and move forward. There is nothing I'm going to do about it now. I've lost the points. We've wrecked the cars and it's going to do no good to point fingers and say we should have done this or that. It's just time to move on and do the best we can in the future."

Biffle insisted that he harbors no lingering anger toward Edwards.

"No, I'm not mad at Carl. He made a mistake; he said he made a mistake," Biffle said. "I went back and watched the tape and it's obvious that he was just overanxious or excited or didn't think it through like 'I need to be lined up perfectly when I try to push him in the corner.' I don't know what else to say about it, but I'm not mad at him."

Kenseth did say that Edwards should have known better than to be so aggressive with anyone, let alone a teammate, while attempting to negotiate a corner at a place as fast as Talladega.

"Talladega is pretty forgiving. It's got a lot of grip. It's really wide. These cars are really, really stable, so we should all know better -- that you can't run into somebody in the middle of the corner, especially in the left rear," Kenseth said. "I mean, if you're squared up on their bumper and you're kind of right behind them and you're pushing them, you can get away with that a little bit -- especially on restarts or if you're not going as fast. But when you're making a run to the front and you're running real fast and you're closing on somebody, you kind of know you can't really run into him in the center of the corner."

Biffle added: "I think Matt probably took it a little harder than I did because Matt was an innocent bystander in that thing and got caught up in it, and he's had a rough start to the Chase. But I think all of us are hard drivers and that we're going to have problems in these close quarters.

"Look at Dover. We are all racing our butts off and Carl told me the next week that he barely missed my bumper cover there. He asked if I saw him and said, 'When you were racing with Matt, I got down in the corner and got loose. I had to go up the racetrack and missed your rear bumper by six inches.' So that's close quarters. Things will happen in races and you're like, 'Whew, that was a close one.' That's just part of it."

And sometimes a close one instead becomes the Big One. Although NASCAR warned against bump-drafting in the corners prior to the race at Talladega, Kenseth admitted that it is difficult, if not impossible, to enforce such an edict without taking away from the competitiveness of a race.

"It's hard to ask NASCAR to enforce everything and to make sure we don't have any wrecks and don't cause any wrecks because, I mean, that's part of racing," Kenseth said. "Everybody is pushing it to the limit as far as you can -- but hopefully you know where that limit is before it's a disaster."