Brickyard Moments: Trouble in Bodineville

Sunday afternoon, the Sprint Cup Series makes its 15th trip back to the place where they said stock cars will never race, the Indianapolis Motor Speedway. All this week, FanHouse will relive the best moments we've seen at the Brickyard.

On Monday, we watched as Jeff Gordon took his No. 24 Chevrolet Lumina (Talk about a throwback...) to victory lane at the legendary speedway in the inaugural running of the Brickyard 400. It was a great moment for NASCAR and its fans in the mid-west.

That same race, though, hosted another moment that will live in NASCAR lore for a long, long time. For Geoffrey Bodine its a memory he'd like to just forget:



Ah, Indianapolis. The city of non-brotherly love.

As you saw, Geoffrey Bodine (in the black No. 7) was running second on a restart with just 60 laps to go in one of the most-anticipated races in NASCAR history. In the lead was his younger brother Brett, driving the green No. 26.

Geoffrey got underneath Brett in Turn 3 and gave his brother an unnecessary tap, loosening up the rear end of the No. 26 and allowing Geoffrey to slide underneath for the lead. Brett was none-too-happy about the move, and decided to pay back his brother immediately, rooting under the No. 7 and spinning Geoffrey out in front of the entire field coming off of Turn 4.

Geoffrey spun the car around and somehow only collected Dale Jarrett (in the green No. 18) in the process while the entire field skated by. Both cars were done for the day.

Following the wreck, Geoffrey was interviewed on ABC and had this to say (sorry, can't find the video):"

We've had some family problems, some personal problems between the two of us, and he [Brett] unforunately took it out on the race track and I never expected he'd do it," said Bodine.

"He's my brother I love him, but he spun me out."

It's not often that the dirty laundry in a family gets aired on national television, but then again, it's not often that brothers wreck each for the lead at Indianapolis.

In case you wondering, both guys have made up and don't seem to hate each other anymore.