The contact spun the No. 1 car into the wall, ending a run that saw the car in the top 10 for most of the race after starting ninth. McMurray was able to get back on track, but the damage left him with a 42nd-place finish.
 
"There was a lap car holding up our pack," McMurray said. "I thought the No. 88 would be a little more patient with me. I had gotten by him in lap traffic. Then he got on my inside. 

"When he got into me, it was like it couldn’t get off and spun me around and just got into the wall there."

McMurray had a season-best sixth-place finish last Sunday at Auto Club Speedway. It was his second top-10 finish of the season after notching a 10th-place result at Phoenix International Raceway in the second race of the year.

"Really unfortunate, had a good car, every race we’ve had good cars," McMurray said. "You just wish you weren’t racing for points because that is the hardest part to swallow is the points loss. It’s fun to run well, but that is what you will think about for the next five days."

McMurray has only led a lap in one race this season at Bristol Motor Speedway, where he had a 38th-place finish. That result was his previous worst finish of the season before finishing next-to-last on Sunday at Martinsville.

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"He does awesome things for charity, and he’s probably the most talented race car driver, but he’s also one of the dumbest," Keselowski said, "so you can put those three together."
 
Told that Busch had radioed his crew during the race to say that he planned to rearrange his face, Keselowski seemed willing to let him try.
 
"Tell him come here. I’m right here," Keselowski said as he stood behind his damaged No. 2 Team Penske Ford. "He knows where I’m at. Leave Victory Lane. We’ll go."
 
Keselowski’s woes began during the second caution period of the race, a competition yellow that NASCAR scheduled on Lap 40 in the 500-lap event. When the field came in for wholesale pit stops, Keseloswski drove into the back of Kasey Kahne‘s No. 5 Chevrolet, slamming the front of the No. 2 Ford on the congested pit lane. Shortly thereafter, Busch’s No. 41 Chevy plowed into Keselowski, leaving all three cars with damage.
 
Keselowski limped back to the garage for repairs and returned to the track after his crew removed much of the front sheet metal from the No. 2 car. More than 30 laps down, Keselowski engaged his rival on the track, hooking a hard left into the side of Busch’s car down the straightaway and making an obscene gesture toward Busch outside the driver’s-side window — both moves that left Busch surprised by the reaction.
 
"I can’t believe he overreacted and he’s as upset as he is," Busch said. "The 5 car was trying to pull into his box, Brad ran into the back of him, I steered right to go around Brad and then he clobbers our left‑side door, and it’s like, ‘OK, accidents happen on pit road.’ It’s congested. It’s not a place to race, because of all the pit-crew guys down there and I didn’t think much of it, and then once we were back out running, he targeted us, he was aiming for us. He tried to flatten all four of my tires. That’s a no‑fly zone. That’s a punk‑ass move and he will get what he gets back when I decide to give it back."
 
Though Keselowski laid blame on Busch during a TV interview while his car was being mended, Busch was predicting doom as he pointed fingers in a radio message to his crew.
 
"We just got destroyed by the 2 car," Busch said. "The left rear just got hammered. Probably ruined for the rest of the day."
 
But Busch’s prediction didn’t come true in the best possible way as he notched his first victory of the season, and all but clinched a spot in the Chase for the NASCAR Sprint Cup postseason. Keselowski said the turn of fortune didn’t make him feel any more or less sour about the outcome.
 
"That’s just racing. You can’t get caught up in that stuff," said Keselowski, who fell three spots to seventh place in the Sprint Cup standings. "Doesn’t make you happy, but it’s just racing."
 
Keselowski indicated that the two have had occasional run-ins in the past, mentioning an early crash that sidelined him last year at Kentucky Speedway. While Keselowski backed off his initial statements on Monday and expressed that he continued to have respect for his former Penske teammate’s talent, he said at the time of Sunday’s run-in that the pattern of racing incidents had grown tiresome.
 
"Same thing. He wrecked me for no reason 50, 30 laps in, whatever … early in the race, just being overaggressive," Keselowski said of the Kentucky altercation. "Aggressive is good, but Lap 50 wrecking somebody — if you’re going to be aggressive, wreck yourself, don’t wreck me. I’ll remember that when it’s Lap 50 and he needs a break and he’ll find his ass turned around in the wall, just like he tore my car up.

"That (expletive) will come around. Once or twice when it happens, you go, ‘eh, you know. it happens,’ but when it happens repeatedly, you just realize this person is at fault and you make sure you show ’em you’re not going to take that. And I’m not going to take it, and I know this 2 team’s not going to take it.
 
"We had a race-winning car today and instead, we finished 30-whatever with the whole front end tore off it. It’s inexcusable for my team, and I’m not going to put up with that."

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