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Danica Patrick, Martin Truex Jr. team rants highlight Fontana in-car audio

The NASCAR Sprint Cup season is just beginning but drivers' tempers were in end-of-season form on Sunday in Fontana, Calif., during the Auto Club 400.

Danica Patrick and Martin Truex Jr. were irate after getting involved in accidents they blamed on the incompetent driving of others.

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Patrick passed Kasey Kahne's car on Lap 121, but then he made contact with her car between Turns 1 and 2, sending Patrick crashing hard into the wall.

"Damn it," Patrick's spotter Brandon Benesch told crew chief Billy Scott on the team's radio.