FONTANA, Calif. -- Matt Kenseth says he has yet to hear from Tony Stewart about last weekend's incident in the Daytona 500 that sent Kenseth into the wall.

"I'm sure we'll talk eventually," Kenseth said Friday at California Speedway. "I don't feel like I need to go talk to him because I didn't feel I was in the wrong at all. Obviously, he does, but I don't feel like I did anything wrong.

Stewart ran Kenseth into the grass in turn 3 last weekend. That came after Stewart said Kenseth nearly caused him to spin by taking the air off his spoiler earlier in the race.

"He started the whole thing, and I finished it," Stewart said after last week's race.

NASCAR penalized Stewart for aggressive driving after Kenseth hit the wall. Stewart had to restart at the rear of the field. Series officials did not talk to Stewart about his post-race comments this week and didn't plan to talk to him this weekend.

Kenseth admits the incident has been difficult to forget. Kenseth ran well until the incident. He finished 15th; Stewart placed fifth.

"We had the best shot at winning the Daytona 500," Kenseth said. "Growing up stock car racing, to win the Daytona 500 is all of our dreams. I felt like I had that taken away from me unfairly"

Dale Earnhardt Jr., who ran behind Stewart and Kenseth before the incident, said Stewart's move wasn't blatant.

"I don't think Tony meant to turn him in to the infield," Earnhardt said. "They had been beating on each other. I'm sure Tony would do it differently if he had the opportunity."

Banned

NASCAR has given Shane Hmiel a lifetime ban after he failed another drug test, a NASCAR official said.

NASCAR spokesman Ramsey Poston said the sanctioning body sent Hmiel a letter last month informing him of the lifetime ban. It is the first ban for violating NASCAR's substance-abuse policy.

The 25-year-old Hmiel, who is a Pleasant Garden, N.C., native, was suspended indefinitely in September 2003 for violating the substance-abuse policy. NASCAR reinstated Hmiel in February 2004 and then suspended him indefinitely in June 2005 after testing positive for a banned substance.

Qualifying

Kurt Busch, driving a 2004 Dodge Intrepid instead of the Charger, won the pole for Sunday's race with a lap of 187.086 mph. It's his fourth career pole and his first since November 2004 at Homestead.

Greg Biffle, who won this race last year, starts second. Jimmie Johnson was third with Joe Gibbs Racing rookies J.J. Yeley and Denny Hamlin completing the top five.

Pit stops

Fox Sports signed Darrell Waltrip to a multi-year contract extension. ... NASCAR announced this week that Gary Nelson, who has overseen the development of the car of tomorrow, will form his own company that will specialize in safety, performance and other technology-driven aspects of motorsports.