To put it simply, what David Gilliland did on Sunday at the Texas Motor Speedway was unacceptable.

Not on the lead lap, Gilliland was caught by Juan Pablo Montoya's No. 42 Texaco/Havoline Dodge on Lap 263. With Montoya hot on his heels, Gilliland drove up the track coming off Turn 2 and put Montoya into the outside wall. The next lap, Montoya got into the rear of Gilliland's No. 38 going into Turn 1, allowing him to move underneath for the pass.

Coming off Turn 2, Montoya had driven to the bottom of the corner while Gilliland came off the turn at the top of the track. Apparently unhappy with Montoya's bump and run move, Gilliland drove down into the right rear quarter panel. The contact sent Montoya's Dodge hard into the outside wall.

"I was running high the lap before and he went inside of me. He (No. 38) ran straight to the wall and I tried to get away," Montoya explained. "He put me into the wall. So I went into one and I punted him just a little bit to say, hey, you're running like 50 laps behind. I hit him a little bit. If I had wanted to wreck him, I would have wrecked him. He came out of four and just wrecked us. It's very disappointing.  It has been great for everybody at Ganassi; we've got great cars now. It's just frustrating to have that happen."

This is the second week in a row Montoya has had a great run throughout the race only to have it slip away at the end in a situation not entirely of his making. Last week's promising run in Atlanta was ruined when the lapped car of Clint Bowyer made contact with the No. 42 on pit road. Montoya was later caught up in a wreck not of his making and finished 40th. This weekend, after running so well all afternoon, Montoya's damage was too much recover from as he was forced to settle with a 43rd-place finish.

"Our Texaco/Havoline Dodge was great all day," Montoya added. "It's a shame. We had another top-10 racecar today and weren't able to finish the race. Our car was good in the heat of the day and was getting better as the sun went down. It is disappointing because the last few races, we've had new cars and ran really strong. I don't know what the 38 was thinking."

NASCAR held the No. 38 on pit road for a five-lap aggressive driving penalty, however, once they saw Montoya's day was over the decided to park Gilliland for the remainder of the event.

"It's a shame we've got some tore up race cars and we got parked, but I got up in front of him - my spotter said I was clear - and I kind of slid up in front of him and he jacked my rear wheels off the ground going down the back straightaway and then got into me again going into turn one and two and jacked me up way up the track. I was trying to let him go and got a good run off the corner and just kind of misjudged it coming down across him," Gilliland explained. "I was gonna let him go, so I feel real bad for those guys. I guess they were running on the lead lap and now our team is parked, so I feel real bad for my team and Yates Racing. It's unfortunate because we had a pretty good day that we had going. Our CitiFinancial Ford Fusion was running pretty good - not quite as well as we'd like, but we were just off a little bit. It's just a disappointing finish to our day."

While Gilliland's view of the situation seemed innocent enough, the tape speaks for itself. Anyone who drives race cars for a living in one of the most premier series in all of motorsports should know better than to put someone else in harms way. Retaliating on the track in a situation like that does more than tear up equipment, it could also hurt someone.

NASCAR made the right call by parking Gilliland and - after a meeting with NASCAR president Mike Helton and Robin Pemberton, vice president of competition - it appears there will be no further penalties. While it is usually Montoya who is seen as the hothead, this time Gilliland was the one in the wrong. Hopefully, being parked by NASCAR will teach the Yates Racing driver to keep his cool on the track and to think before overreacting from now on.