Quote Originally Posted by Yankee Racer
Backing off would've been impossible at that point, I think. It's easy to be a Monday morning quarterback. Making a split-second decision is different. Teammates should be allowed to race, and Marco raced. That's racin'. Kanaan got into the marbles long after Marco was gone.
While we will never know TK's true reaction to Marco being on the inside of him. Was he surprised? Was he shocked? Was he trying to stay away so they both wouldn't crash?

We do know that Marco being there did force him to change his line.
However, there were many other passes made just prior to going into the corner were the high side car made it through.

IMHO, because he was not expecting Marco to be there, he turned in too late and was never able to get low enough to make it through the corner.