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Carl Edwards was standing outside the infield care center, collecting his thoughts and preparing to view a replay on Fox of his wild final-lap wreck in Sunday’s Aaron’s 499. Ryan Newman, who finished third but had little left of his No. 39 Chevrolet to show for it, walked out behind him and tapped him on the arm. “See you next week, where we can race,” Newman said and walked off. Edwards’ reaction to his car barrel-roll down the frontstretch and into the catch-fence while leading the race on the last lap was more pointed. “I guess we’ll do this until someone gets killed and then we’ll change it,” he said. “That’s the way it is. We do our best. We’re put in this box by NASCAR and we have to race this way. If you look at how the final four cars were finishing, you had to be pushing the guy in front of you.” That was scene unfolding at Talladega Superspeedway on the final lap. — Charlotte Observer