Hamlin, Busch meet with Gibbs after All-Star strife

CONCORD, N.C. -- Joe Gibbs stood on stage before Saturday's All-Star Race, holding his grandson's hand as the 5-year-old offered his prayer to the heavens on behalf of the drivers.

By the end of the race, all hell had broken loose and the owner of Joe Gibbs Racing had to do a little more hand-holding in the hauler -- only this time it was with two of his own drivers in the likes of Kyle Busch and Denny Hamlin.

Busch enraged

What Kyle Busch thought was going to be the winning pass in the All-Star Race turned into something quite different.

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Busch was gunning for the lead with eight laps to go when he was blocked by teammate Denny Hamlin during the final segment of the main event at Charlotte Motor Speedway. Busch ended up in the wall and eventually out of contention.

Believing he had the race won, Busch wasted no time warning his team to keep him away from Hamlin at the end of the night -- even using the word "kill" in a moment of frustration.

"Somebody better keep me away from Denny Hamlin after this race,'' Busch screamed into his radio. "I swear to God, I'm going to kill that [expletive]. His entire [expletive] fault! I had this race won! It was won!''

Busch eventually made his way to the garage, parked his race car in front of Hamlin's hauler, the latter making his entrance moments later. Both drivers spent about 20 minutes with their owner inside before Busch exited to the side, declined interviews and left Hamlin to give his own version of events.

"First, he [Busch] got a big run off the corner. I was clear getting in and basically I just throttled off extremely early," Hamlin described.

"Really it was a bad corner. He was going to go by me. I'm looking out my front windshield and he says I'm clear and so I'm going to use all the race track I can. The problem is, Kyle had a run to the outside, and with me moving up getting real tight, it then took some air away from the front of his car and he slid up in the wall." (Continued)