Kyle Busch, Martin Truex Jr. wreck each other on restart at Brickyard 400

There has been a lot of talk this week about Kyle Busch and his chance to make history with what would have been a third win in a row in the Brickyard 400.

Instead, Busch is out of the race at Indianapolis Motor Speedway, along with Martin Truex Jr.

Just before a restart Sunday on Lap 110, Busch and Truex's teams were radioing back and forth about whether they would continue working together on restarts. Busch had won the pole and the first two stages and had the fastest car, with Truex his strongest challenger throughout Sunday's race.

"I think we need to race him,” Busch said.

Then, bang.

The green flag waved and Truex appeared to bobble and get into Busch. Both crashed into the Turn 1 wall. Truex’s car caught on fire and he was forced to exit quickly.

Both drivers were checked and cleared from the infield care center.

"I just got loose and wrecked him. It was totally my fault,” Truex said. “I didn't realize he was going to drive that deep and suck me up. But I have to take responsibility for that one. I feel bad for Kyle. He had a great car.

"We worked well together. That's the hard part about this when it's time to go. I should have picked the outside. Mistake on my part took us out of it."

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Truex, the points leader before this race, already has three wins this season and has qualified for the playoffs.

Meanwhile, Busch hasn’t won for a full calendar year in NASCAR’s Monster Energy Cup Series. His last win was the Brickyard 400 in 2016.

"I guess you have could have continued to play the teammate game and tried to settle it on a green flag pit stop,” Busch said. “But if he would be that much faster than me on a run and got out to a 3-second lead, then I'd never be able to make it up. That's the way it goes. Just chock it up to another one where we figured out how to lose these things by. And it's very, very frustrating.”

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