Jimmie Johnson is still waiting for an apology, or simply an explanation, from Ryan Blaney over what transpired between them last weekend during the Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series race at Watkins Glen International.

The two drivers, very much at different stages of their respective careers, had a face-off on pit road following the race, a confrontation that included Johnson waving a finger in Blaney’s face.

Johnson claims Blaney ran right through the seven-time champion’s car during the closing stages of the race. Blaney maintains it was a byproduct of hard racing between the two, and ultimately something both drivers contributed to.

Blaney says he let Johnson have his say on pit road at the Glen, offered his feedback, and felt like the ordeal was over.

And then Johnson accused Blaney of quivering under the scrutiny of the moment just minutes later on NBCSN. Naturally, Blaney was sought for comment as soon as the garage opened, and he rebutted the notion that he was intimidated by Johnson.

Blaney told NASCAR.com that he hadn’t reached out to Johnson because he felt like it was over. Johnson himself told the website that he had been waiting to hear from the young Team Penske driver all week and he received nary a word.

"I have learned more about Ryan’s point of view through reading articles than I have from out of his mouth, and that part bothers me," Johnson said during a media scrum on Friday at Michigan International Speedway. "It’s pretty sad. When I went to go talk to him after the race, at some point he said he felt bad but I never heard, 'I’m sorry. I didn’t mean to,' nothing that would make me think that he didn’t care if it happened.

"That aspect only confirmed the way I felt in my car. So, I thought I would get a call from him during the week, just the friendship that we’ve had, the amount of respect that I thought we had for one another, and I didn’t."

Blaney, for his part, was adamant after qualifying on Friday that he doesn’t need to reach out and still doesn’t need to apologize beyond what he said last weekend.

"I talked to him on Sunday after the race," Blaney said. "I saw that he said he was expecting a call. We talked after the race. There's no need for a call. He is expecting an apology. I told him I'm sorry he spun after the race but there is nothing I can do about it. When you come across my nose, that is going to happen."

Blaney added that he was less inclined to talk to Johnson after the veteran suggested he was in any way intimidated by their pit road chat.

"That actually really pissed me off," Blaney said. "I let him chew my ass out for like two minutes or whatever it was. I was very respectful and gave my side of the story.

"And then for him to say that after we got done talking -- that brought the respect level down a lot. Respect should go both ways. It shouldn't be just me respecting him. I haven't reached out. If I see him, I'm sure we'll exchange words. But we already talked as far as I'm concerned."

It was an insinuation that Johnson didn’t back down from on Friday.

"It was an observation and it was happening," Johnson recalled. "I didn’t hear a lot of details that I expected to hear, and I could have gone into a much more intense line of thought and said a lot more that would have been a lot more damaging to him than saying his lip was quivering.

"I don’t understand the sensitivity to that or why it’s such a big deal. His lip was quivering, and he didn’t have a lot to say. It’s one of the facts that took place in the conversation."

Was Johnson trying to suggest that Blaney was afraid?

"Too many details to worry about," Johnson said. "Again, this could have been cleared up with a phone call. The phone is still sitting in my bus and there hasn’t been a call placed to it."

And Blaney maintains one isn’t coming either.

"He said he expected an apology and he keeps saying I drove through him," Blaney said. "This is just amazing to me. Look at my left front fender after the race and it has yellow paint on it from where his 'Goodyear' rubbed all the way up on my fender.

"I've checked up for so many guys over the years and if you keep doing that, you're going to keep getting chopped. It happened so fast. I told him I'm sorry he ended up getting spun but I'm not going to apologize because I didn't gas up and drive through him. I don't do that to people and he apparently thought I did. We're never going to agree on that. We're race car drivers."

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