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Lane choice critical for restarts

By David Newton
ESPN.com

Wednesday, September 16, 2009

CHARLOTTE, N.C. -- Rewind to Lap 175 of the June Sprint Cup race at New Hampshire Motor Speedway. Dale Earnhardt Jr., running third, spun his tires on the restart and started slowly. Martin Truex Jr. checked up to avoid contact. Kyle Busch did not. Slam! Crash! Bam! A major pileup in Turn 1. Jeff Burton, Brian Vickers and Truex were knocked out of the race. Busch took the brunt of the blame, nearly getting a helmet thrown at him by Truex and taking a tongue-lashing from Vickers. "I gues ...

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