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Carl Edwards hasn't spoken with Kyle Busch about Richmond yet

Published Apr. 29, 2016 5:58 p.m. ET

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Carl Edwards is the hottest driver in the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series right now, having won the last two races, first at Bristol Motor Speedway two weeks ago and then at Richmond International Raceway last Sunday.

But Edwards won the Richmond race by putting the bumper to his Joe Gibbs Racing teammate Kyle Busch in the last corner of the 400th and final lap. Understandably, Busch didn't appreciate Edwards' aggression, especially since Busch had won two in a row right before Edwards began his streak.

Still, had the roles been reversed, Busch well might have done exactly the same thing to Edwards at Richmond that Edwards did to Busch. It's racing, after all.

This weekend the Sprint Cup teams are racing at the high-speed Talladega Superspeedway, where if Busch tried to give Edwards some payback, it could result in a huge, multi-car crash. So don't expect any retaliation in Sunday's GEICO 5O0 (FOX 12:30 p.m. ET).

Friday at the 2.66-mile Talladega track, Edwards was asked if he'd called or texted or met with Busch to apologize or at least explain about what happened on the last lap at Richmond.

The answer?

"No, Kyle  and I haven't had a chance to talk yet," said Edwards. "I was testing in Indy for two days and I missed the meetings. This weekend will require us to talk together as a group and work well together and I'm sure we'll have a chance to talk."

Oops.

Be that as it may, it begs an interesting question -- with the Edwards-Busch issue still fresh in everyone's minds, will the four JGR Toyotas and the  No.78 Furniture Row Racing Toyota driven by Martin Truex Jr. team up and run nose-to-tail like they did at the Daytona 500, where they combined to win and sweep four of the top five places?

Maybe, maybe not.

"We'll just have to see, but our cars were all really fast and the drivers all did a really good job of working together," said Truex who finished second in the Daytona 500 by 0.002 seconds to JGR's Denny Hamlin. "It takes full commitment and 100 percent from all the guys in our camp to be able to do what we did at Daytona."

But the plan is to give it a shot at least.

"I think we'll try to make it work, but there's no guarantees that it will work as well this time -- different race track, you know?" said Truex.

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