TOP:NASCAR drivers Dale Earnhardt Jr., (88) Matt Kenseth (17) and Greg Biffle (16) crash as Jimmie Johnson (48) passes during the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series AMP Energy 500 at Talladega Superspeedway in Talladega, Ala, Sunday, Oct. 5, 2008. (AP Photo/Dale Davis) LOWER:Travis Kvapil (28), Carl Edwards (99), Juan Pablo Montoya (42), of Colombia, and Kevin Harvick (29) crash during the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series' AMP Energy 500 auto race at Talladega Superspeedway in Talladega, Ala, Sunday, Oct. 5, 2008. (AP Photo/Kevin Glackmeyer)

--(Cont'd From Front Page)-- As it turned out, he pushed too hard while bump-drafting Roush Fenway Racing teammate Greg Biffle through Turn 3 of Lap 174.

Biffle slid sideways, igniting an 12-car pileup that wiped out four other Chase competitors -- teammate Matt Kenseth, Dale Earnhardt Jr., Kevin Harvick and Kyle Busch -- in addition to Edwards and Biffle.

"I was just pushing Greg as hard as I could," Edwards said. "It's my fault, and I apologize to everybody caught up in that wreck. We had been pushing each other a lot, and it had been going really well. We just got in exactly the wrong spot there going into (Turn) 3, and he got real loose and that was just the way it went.

"It's my fault. I feel bad that I took my teammates out. I know Matt's mad and I'm sure Greg's mad, but you just do the best you can and hope for the best. It just didn't work out today. I was worried about the idiots when you come here -- and I was the guy that caused that one."

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