JOLIET, Ill. -- Tony Stewart said he and Kyle Busch are on the same page regarding the last lap crash at Daytona, but to hear Busch's comments Thursday at Chicagoland Speedway, they aren't even reading the same book.

'On same page'

Tony Stewart talked with Kyle Busch Thursday on the phone about their last-lap Daytona crash and hung up thinking there were no ill feelings.

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Busch managed to stifle much of any harbored anger left over from the wreck, but declared he was "dumped" by Stewart and that NASCAR should implement a rule to deter such actions; actions that he said are becoming all too common in restrictor plate racing at tracks such as Daytona International Speedway and Talladega Superspeedway.

Busch was leading the Coke Zero 400 and tried to block Stewart twice but on the second attempt Busch made contact with the front of Stewart's No. 14 machine sending the No. 18 hard into the wall allowing Stewart to take the win.

A week later, Busch attempted to take an apathetic position on the matter; initially at least.

"I really don't have feelings, so it really doesn't mean a whole lot. I thank him for I guess checking on me to see if I was alive," Busch said.

Stewart, who openly regretted how Saturday night's race ended, called Busch on Tuesday and said the two drivers shared, what he thought to be, an amicable 30-minute phone conversation.

From his words Friday, Busch's feelings may have changed since their conversation.

"If I'm ever second I normally finish second," he said. "If I'm leading I guess I'm getting wrecked. It seems to me like I don't know how to win restrictor plate races."

Busch went further to say that NASCAR should take action.

"NASCAR can take a step in looking at it and if the second place driver dumps -- quote unquote -- the leader, then black flag his ass," he said. "He doesn't get the win, you know. If he's on him from behind and moves him out of the way and there's no wreck then fine he can win the race but if you're up along side the guy and you dump him then I say black flag him and give the win the third-place driver."

If he could have the last lap to do over, Busch said he wouldn't change anything he did.

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If I'm ever second I normally finish second. If I'm leading I guess I'm getting wrecked. It seems to me like I don't know how to win restrictor plate races.

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-- KYLE BUSCH

"I don't have it back, so it doesn't matter, it's over with, it's done," Busch said. "I did everything I could do to try to win the race and I didn't."

As for Stewart, he was made aware of Busch's comments Friday but contends he is sticking to the exchange the drivers shared Tuesday.

Meanwhile, several other Cup drivers were asked to address the last-lap incident in Daytona and whether or not they felt it should be a shared concern between NASCAR and the Cup teams.

Greg Biffle said restrictor plate racing is its own animal and that sometimes, NASCAR drivers need to be protected from themselves. Still, Biffle had no tangible solution.

"The thing is we're crashing on the straightaway and the crashes are two cars. It's not multiple cars. It's not one guy cutting one guy off. It's two cars involved in these wrecks at the end of these races and it's the first- and second-place guy trying to get the trophy," he said. "There's no way to fix that, for sure."

Bottom line, the safety of the drivers needs to be paramount, Biffle added. The fact that Busch was hit by more than one car crossing the finish line at the end of Saturday night's race is a major concern and maybe cars aren't getting slowed down quick enough or maybe they are still racing hard to the finish line.

"When you can see the checkered flag from here to there, it's tough to just roll over and play dead, but at the same time, you don't want to get turned around on the frontstretch in front of the whole field," Biffle said.

Juan Montoya simplified matters and said drivers just need to be aware because restrictor plate racing is what it is.

"I've been to Daytona now six times and I think all of them have been like that, so I don't know why all of a sudden it's an issue," Montoya said. "At Talladega there are always wrecks. At Daytona there are always wrecks. People pay to go and see that, I guess. And it's fun; I don't mind. It sucks when you're in the middle of it but it is what it is, you know? It is restrictor plate at its best.

"There is always somebody going to walk out of there mad and ticked off that they should have or could have and when the caution came out why some people raced to the flag and some people didn't. It is what it is. You've got to be aware. You've got to learn to ride a little and be lucky."