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DAYTONA BEACH, Fla – Jimmie Johnson dominated the second Budweiser Duel qualifying race at Daytona for the win, while Danica Patrick raced her way in to the Daytona 500 after being caught up in a crash.
Patrick was wrecked after she and Denny Hamlin were in close proximity on the track with only a handful of laps to go. Her car went spinning and collected Brian Scott and Bobby Labonte. However, the damage that Patrick's car sustained was relatively minimal and after some work by her crew, she was back on the track for the green-white-checker finish.
After restarting in 18th and outside the top 16 cutoff point to automatically qualify for Sunday's Daytona 500, Patrick got a push from teammate Kurt Busch on the outside lane on the final lap and ended up 10th. She'll start 20th on Sunday.
"It shouldn't go unsaid, Kurt was there for me," Patrick said. "Without Kurt I wouldn't have finished where I did."
But she wouldn't have needed the push from Busch if Hamlin hadn't spun her for the second day in a row. During Wednesday's practice, the same two got together, with Patrick ending up wtih a destroyed race car.
"I said yesterday that it's horrible that it's left up to other people and what they can do to you to whether or not you get in the race or not," she said after Thursday's race, "and I said I just need to not get caught up in anything or not have something like yesterday happen and the exact same thing as yesterday happened."*
When the race was over, Patrick and Hamlin had an animated discussion about what happened. Here's a snippet courtesy of Yahoo Sports' Jay Busbee.
"Dude you give me nothing, you give me nothing," Patrick told Hamlin. "It spun my back end around."
"I understand, it's because you're loose," Hamlin replied. "It's not my fault."
"It's not. Nobody else did it to me," Patrick said.
"Nobody else is getting close to you," Hamlin said. "You have to get close to people."
Johnson started first in the Duel and never left the front of the field throughout the race. His dominance was reminiscent of the speed his Hendrick teammates showed in the first Duel. Dale Earnhardt Jr. won the race while Jeff Gordon was second and Kasey Kahne finished seventh.
Kyle Busch finished second behind Johnson in Duel No. 2, while Carl Edwards was third. The full results from the second race are below.
The drivers missing the Daytona 500 are Jeb Burton, Alex Bowman, Justin Marks, Ron Hornaday, Scott and Josh Wise.
Burton and Bowman were caught in a crash in the second race when Burton and Sam Hornish Jr. made contact. Wise's car had issues before the green flag even dropped in race No. 2.
RACE 2 RESULTS
1. Jimmie Johnson
2. Kyle Busch
3. Carl Edwards
4. Greg Biffle
5. Martin Truex Jr.
6. Ryan Blaney
7. Reed Sorenson
8. Mike Wallace
9. Justin Allgaier
10. Danica Patrick
11. Ryan Newman
12. Kurt Busch
13. David Gilliland
14. David Ragan
15. Austin Dillon
16. Ricky Stenhouse Jr.
17. Biran Scott
18. Denny Hamlin
19. Michael Waltrip
20. Bobby Labonte
21. Sam Hornish Jr.
22. Jeb Burton
23. Alex Bowman
24. Josh Wise
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Patrick was wrecked after she and Denny Hamlin were in close proximity on the track with only a handful of laps to go. Her car went spinning and collected Brian Scott and Bobby Labonte. However, the damage that Patrick's car sustained was relatively minimal and after some work by her crew, she was back on the track for the green-white-checker finish.
After restarting in 18th and outside the top 16 cutoff point to automatically qualify for Sunday's Daytona 500, Patrick got a push from teammate Kurt Busch on the outside lane on the final lap and ended up 10th. She'll start 20th on Sunday.
"It shouldn't go unsaid, Kurt was there for me," Patrick said. "Without Kurt I wouldn't have finished where I did."
But she wouldn't have needed the push from Busch if Hamlin hadn't spun her for the second day in a row. During Wednesday's practice, the same two got together, with Patrick ending up wtih a destroyed race car.
"I said yesterday that it's horrible that it's left up to other people and what they can do to you to whether or not you get in the race or not," she said after Thursday's race, "and I said I just need to not get caught up in anything or not have something like yesterday happen and the exact same thing as yesterday happened."*
When the race was over, Patrick and Hamlin had an animated discussion about what happened. Here's a snippet courtesy of Yahoo Sports' Jay Busbee.
"Dude you give me nothing, you give me nothing," Patrick told Hamlin. "It spun my back end around."
"I understand, it's because you're loose," Hamlin replied. "It's not my fault."
"It's not. Nobody else did it to me," Patrick said.
"Nobody else is getting close to you," Hamlin said. "You have to get close to people."
Johnson started first in the Duel and never left the front of the field throughout the race. His dominance was reminiscent of the speed his Hendrick teammates showed in the first Duel. Dale Earnhardt Jr. won the race while Jeff Gordon was second and Kasey Kahne finished seventh.
Kyle Busch finished second behind Johnson in Duel No. 2, while Carl Edwards was third. The full results from the second race are below.
The drivers missing the Daytona 500 are Jeb Burton, Alex Bowman, Justin Marks, Ron Hornaday, Scott and Josh Wise.
Burton and Bowman were caught in a crash in the second race when Burton and Sam Hornish Jr. made contact. Wise's car had issues before the green flag even dropped in race No. 2.
RACE 2 RESULTS
1. Jimmie Johnson
2. Kyle Busch
3. Carl Edwards
4. Greg Biffle
5. Martin Truex Jr.
6. Ryan Blaney
7. Reed Sorenson
8. Mike Wallace
9. Justin Allgaier
10. Danica Patrick
11. Ryan Newman
12. Kurt Busch
13. David Gilliland
14. David Ragan
15. Austin Dillon
16. Ricky Stenhouse Jr.
17. Biran Scott
18. Denny Hamlin
19. Michael Waltrip
20. Bobby Labonte
21. Sam Hornish Jr.
22. Jeb Burton
23. Alex Bowman
24. Josh Wise
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