Gordon: Hardest I've ever hit

Jeff Gordon had a chance to win the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series race at Las Vegas Motor Speedway, but with five laps to go, he hit Matt Kenseth and spun into an infield barrier that ripped out the radiator in his car.
Gordon said it was the hardest hit he's ever experienced in NASCAR.
“I’m OK but I’m going to be really sore tomorrow," said Gordon, driver of the No. 24 Chevrolet for Hendrick Motorsports. "It was a really, really hard hit. It took me a while to be able to catch my breath and to get out. I looked down and I saw where the transmission was and it was no longer there. That’s probably the hardest I’ve ever hit and you know it was my fault."
Gordon was trailing Kenseth and Dale Earnhardt Jr., who was in second place at the time, on one of the last restarts in the race. Gordon and Kenseth passed Earnhardt Jr., Kenseth went high, Gordon low, and when they cleared Earnhardt Jr., Gordon slid up into Kenseth.
"We were all pushing so hard there," Gordon said. "I got a little bit tight underneath Matt and turned it up into him. I was trying to stay out of hitting him after he spun and it just turned me sideways. I couldn’t have hit the wall at a worse angle. It really tore the thing up. I’m really disappointed right now in this speedway for not having a soft wall back there. And even being able to get to that part of the wall shouldn’t happen."
Gordon had one message he wanted to relay to Bruton Smith, the owner of the track and founder of Speedway Motorsports Inc., which owns a number of tracks on the Cup Series circuit.
“I’ve got two things to say: Bruton, you need a soft wall and to change the wall back there on the back straightaway," Gordon said. "Thankfully Hendrick Motorsports and everyone with this DuPont/Nicorette Chevrolet builds an unbelievable race car because that’s the hardest I’ve ever hit.
“But I’m more thankful that I’ve got an awesome team with this DuPont/Nicorette Chevrolet because they build a safe race car. I’ll tell you what, several years ago those types of hits you wouldn’t be standing here right now.”