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Paul Menard expresses his displeasure with Jimmie Johnson following the Advance Auto Parts Clash last Sunday.<\/p>\n
Now the former Brickyard winner is looking to “move on” from the end of the race that he led for 51 of 59 laps.<\/p>\n
Of course the lap that mattered most was the last lap which came after Menard was contacted by the seven time Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series champion. After Menard went around Johnson took the lead and the race was quickly called due to rain.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt is what it is, right? I felt like I was holding a wheel as good as I could,\u201d said Menard. “I thought up front would be a pretty safe place, too, but Jimmie did what he did to try to win. It was not intentional. Maybe I moved down a little bit, I don\u2019t know if there was no room for error, and two cars collided. So that\u2019s what it is. I spent the last two days at Disney World with my two little kids and had a good time.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n Menard and Johnson have spoken since the incident but the latter says little has changed even if he admits he could have handled the situation differently. <\/span><\/p>\n \u201cI don\u2019t know if there\u2019s really anything different,\u201d Johnson said. \u201cI mean, it\u2019s great to have that conversation and talk to him. He knew then and he knows again after today, our phone call, that it wasn\u2019t intentional. Looking back, I could\u2019ve given him a few more inches, that way when he came down, there was a bit more margin for error between us. There\u2019s always lessons to learn going back and looking at the tape and talking to someone about those things, but I think where he and I stand, I\u2019m sure he wasn\u2019t happy after the race, but he knew it wasn\u2019t intentional, and it was more of racing thing than anything.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n Lastly for those holding out hope that Menard will one day join Twitter; the son of Menards founder John Menard says “it’s not going to happen.”<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Paul Menard expresses his displeasure with Jimmie Johnson following the Advance Auto Parts Clash last Sunday. Now the former Brickyard winner is looking to “move on” from the end of the race that he led for 51 of 59 laps. Of course the lap that mattered most was the last lap which came after Menard […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":19421,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,788],"tags":[708,503],"coauthors":[675],"class_list":["post-19422","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cup-series","category-news","tag-nascar","tag-paul-menard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19422","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19422"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19422\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19421"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19422"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19422"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19422"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=19422"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}