Tough luck for Reutimann

David Reutimann looked like he was going to give Toyota its best showing the NASCAR Nextel Cup Series. He was running in third, but with less than 10 laps to go in the race at Talladega Superspeedway, he blew an engine and finished 32nd.
If Reutimann could have stayed in third place, it would have been Toyota's first top 10, first top five and best finish in Cup racing to date.
“I’m so bummed out," said Reutimann, driver of the No. 00 for Michael Waltrip Racing. "I had a chance to run pretty good today, I thought. That stuff happens and I’m just disappointed for the whole team. The way we ran out there today had nothing to do with the driver -- it had everything to do with the car this team built. I hated to oil the track down like that, but I couldn’t seem to get down to the bottom of the track. All I was doing was looking out at the wall.”
Reutimann said while running in third place he was waiting for something bad to happen to his car.
"I didn’t know if somebody was going to run over me or if something was going to break," Reutimann said. "Things were going too good all day long, you hate to look at it that way, but that’s Talladega. I’m thankful that today was a pretty safe race, but I’m disappointed that I didn’t get to race for the win there at the end.”