FORT WORTH, Texas -- David Gilliland wasn't sorry for hitting Juan Montoya in Sunday's Cup race.

He was, however, sorry for hitting him so hard that it wrecked both their racecars.

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It's just a bad situation and we want to prevent it from happening again on the racetrack. We'll see where it goes. It was reiterated to the guys that they have to control their emotions.

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JIM HUNTER

"I meant to get him loose, I didn't mean to wreck him and ruin both of our days," Gilliland said. "It was just one of those racing deals, you know. I wanted to come down behind him and I just mis-judged and clipped him there."

On Lap 264, Gilliland drove hard into the rear of Montoya, forcing the No. 42 machine up the racetrack and into the backstretch wall (watch video). The damage was so extensive, Montoya was unable to drive the car back to the garage.

Regardless of intentions, Gilliland, driver of the No. 38 Yates Racing Ford was called to pit road and held in his pit stall for five green-flag laps of racing. And once NASCAR officials realized Montoya's car was beyond repair they instructed Gilliland and his No. 38 crew to park it for the day.

Montoya explained what transpired before the crash.

"I was running high the lap before and he went inside of me," Montoya said. "He ran straight to the wall and I tried to get away. He put me into the wall. So I went into [Turn 1] and I punted him just a little bit to say, 'Hey, you're running like 50 laps behind.' I hit him a little bit. If I had wanted to wreck him, I would have wrecked him."

Montoya said Gilliland then retaliated.

"He came out of [Turn] 4 and just wrecked us," said Montoya, who was running inside the top 10 before the incident. "It was like he said, 'I'm better than him, so I'm going to wreck him.' The decent thing is not doing it ... It's frustrating when people do things like that."

Gilliland was called to the NASCAR hauler for a meeting with the brass -- Mike Helton, president of NASCAR, and Robin Pemberton, vice president of competition -- regarding his "overly aggressive" actions.

"They [the 38 team] got their side of the story and they'll talk to [Montoya on Monday]," said Jim Hunter, NASCAR spokesman. "Hopefully that is the end of it. We've got two wrecked racecars seemingly for no reason. A driver has to maintain control of his emotions on the racetrack, regardless of what had happened before on the racetrack. It's just a bad situation and we want to prevent it from happening again on the racetrack. We'll see where it goes. It was reiterated to the guys that they have to control their emotions."

And it appears Gilliland will get off for good behavior.

Hunter said no further penalties will be handed to the No. 38 Yates Racing team or its driver.

"We've not had any troubles with David before. He's a great race driver and so hopefully that is the end of it," Hunter said. "They had one of their meetings in the truck where [NASCAR] gets their point across."

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I don't know what the 38 was thinking.

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JUAN MONTOYA

Hunter added that it was made clear to Gilliland that aggressive driving would not be tolerated and will come with "severe consequences" should there be a repeat offense.

As he walked from the hauler, Gilliland said he was fed up with Montoya's driving style but he didn't intend on wrecking him.

"I think everyone does, but everyone's safety is too important to do anything like that on purpose," Gilliland said. "We've been on the flip side of that and don't like when it happens to us."

Gilliland further explained his side of the story and what transpired before the wreck.

"It's a shame we've got some tore up racecars and we got parked, but I got up in front of him -- my spotter said I was clear -- and I kind of slid up in front of him and he jacked my rear wheels off the ground going down the back straightaway and then got into me again going into Turn 1 and 2 and jacked me up way up the track. I was trying to let him go and got a good run off the corner and just kind of mis-judged it coming down across him. I was going to let him go, so I feel real bad for those guys. I guess they were running on the lead lap and now our team is parked, so I feel real bad for my team and Yates Racing."

Disgusted, Montoya agreed.

"It's a shame," he said. "We had another top-10 racecar [Sunday] and weren't able to finish the race. Our car was good in the heat of the day and was getting better as the sun went down. It is disappointing because the last few races, we've had new cars and ran really strong. I don't know what the 38 was thinking."

From an outsider's perspective, Carl Edwards said don't be quick to point fingers.

"I think that a lot of times people see it as, 'Oh, hey, some guy made a mistake. He's not even racing for a championship or whatever,' but let me tell you something, David Gilliland is a great racecar driver. He's racing just as hard as or harder than a lot of the guys out here because he's racing for a sponsorship and for a ride," Edwards said. "This is where you have to be careful ... saying negative things about guys because we all make mistakes, every single one of us, so personally I'm not mad at David Gilliland and I think he's a good guy."

The last car to be parked by NASCAR was the No. 55 of Michael Waltrip in May at Richmond International Raceway.

During that race Casey Mears accidentally cut in front of Waltrip, pinching the No. 55 into the wall. Waltrip's car then pushed Mears for several hundred feet after the initial contact. NASCAR parked Waltrip for retaliating against Mears.

Before that, it was Robby Gordon in 2007. The driver was parked for intentionally wrecking Marcos Ambrose in a Nationwide Series race and not allowed to race in the following day's Cup race at Pocono Raceway.