Who to blame

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Tony Stewart wasn't sure who to blame after he was wrecked at the end of the NASCAR Nextel Cup Series race at Talladega Superspeedway.
After first, he was mad at Jamie McMurray. But after seeing a replay of the crash, Stewart directed his anger at David Gilliland, driver of the No. 38 Ford for Robert Yates Racing.
"Yeah, just like I saw it. We get hit and then pushed in the wall. We're done wrecking right there and then all of a sudden get jacked up by the No. 38 car for no reason," said Stewart, driver of the No. 20 Chevrolet for Joe Gibbs Racing. "There was absolutely no reason for that to happen. He's just taking it out on us for (Saturday) when he turned down across the nose. Leapt into his Cup ride but I don't know, we'll see."
McMurray's car made contact with Stewart's car first. But McMurray said he was bumped by Gilliland and pushed into Stewart.
"That doesn't bother me near as much as the No. 38 car plowing in the back after we've wrecked and we could drive a quarter-mile down the race track and I'm going in a straight line and he just plows into the back of us and turns us and crashes us," Stewart said. "I don't know how else to describe it. That's the dumbest thing I've ever seen in my life."
Reporters told Stewart he looked like he was mad at McMurray after the wreck. Stewart changed his position after the race was over.
"I'm going to take that back because I don't know if the No. 38 pushed Jamie into us or what but Jamie was the one that ran into us," Stewart said. "Jamie wasn't the one that plowed us in the back and took us out of the race. We crashed and we were going to be able to limp it back and get a reasonable finish out of it and David just plows in the back of us and takes us out for no reason. That's the guy I'm mad at, not Jamie."

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