Gordon, Kenseth settle their score or still sore?

Strained relations between the two drivers haven't improved much.
LOUDON, N.H. (AP) -- Jeff Gordon apologized to Matt Kenseth -- sort of.
And Kenseth accepted -- sort of.
Kenseth said the two former NASCAR champions spoke briefly on Tuesday during a test session in Indianapolis, but the face-to-face meeting apparently did little to settle their differences.
"He almost acted like he was mad a me," said Kenseth, spun out by Gordon late in last Sunday's NASCAR Nextel Cup race at Chicagoland Speedway.
"I thought we were OK but, obviously, we weren't," Kenseth said Friday at New Hampshire International Speedway. "I don't think we'll be going out to dinner tonight.
No better
"We talked after Indy but, honestly, when we talked about it, it was kind of one of them things where he came over and apologized but wasn't very apologetic, if you know what I mean."
Asked about Kenseth's comments, Gordon shrugged and said, "I did all I could. I pretty much left it up to him."
Kenseth had dominated the Chicagoland race. But, Gordon, who obviously had the faster car in the closing laps, got impatient and tried to get past with four laps to go by bumping Kenseth up the track. The result was a spinout at about 180 mph for Kenseth and a victory for Gordon.
Since it was Kenseth who spun out Gordon on the way to a third-place finish earlier this season in Bristol, payback was the immediate thought. Gordon insisted it was simply hard racing, saying he only tried to move Kenseth up the track, not to spin him.
But Gordon said he can certainly understand why the Roush Racing driver is upset.
Similar
"I look at the Bristol incident and this incident is so similar," said Gordon, who was penalized $10,000 and placed on probation until Aug. 30 by NASCAR for shoving Kenseth when he came up to apologize after the Bristol race.
"He came up to me and said he was sorry and didn't mean to do it, but I was fuming for a long time after that.
"All I do know, and people can believe me or not believe me, that wasn't payback. It really wasn't. It was racing hard and it just happened to be a guy that I had an incident with earlier in the season."
The four-time series champion said he has watched video replays of the Chicago incident and that it was obvious to him that after the two leaders slowed to drive under the lapped car of Casey Mears, he simply got back on the gas faster than Kenseth did.
"That's going to be something we might disagree on right now but, at the same time, if we don't both move on from this, then it's going to cost both of us a chance at the championship," Gordon said.