There's a generally-accepted protocol when two drivers get into it during a race. They'll spout off to each other, they'll each give a "we're gonna remember this" quote to the cameras, and then the next week they'll say that they talked on the phone and hashed everything out, and all's copacetic.
Jeff Gordon hates all that.
"This whole calling thing, I don't know who started that, but I didn't know that existed," Gordon said Friday afternoon. "When I was coming up, we didn't call one another.� We didn't say anything.� We went to the next race and we either confronted it at the time or confronted it the next week or two weeks later."
Gordon noted that the conversations are every bit as strained as you'd think they'd be, with nobody really interested in mending fences, just covering behinds.
"I prefer [other drivers] to wonder if I'm ever going to get them back," Gordon said. "Then at the same time, usually I forget about it and move on and we go racing and we don't worry about it.� I don't let it linger."
Gordon did acknowledge that he did recently contact one driver: "I will tell you the only guy that I really reached out to and called was Martin Truex Jr., and that's because I completely screwed that up," he said. "At Sonoma, I just made a bonehead, bad move watching my mirror because Juan Pablo (Montoya) was making a diving move in on me and I ran over the top of him.� I felt really bad about that. I called him.� But if it's a racing incident and we're racing hard or whatever something happens, I don't call them."
So there you go. If the phone doesn't ring, it's Jeff.
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