Kyle Busch was not a happy race car driver Sunday. The 2016 NASCAR Cup champion was in contention for the win late in the Kobalt 400 at Las Vegas Motor Speedway. Or at least a top five finish.
He was battling for the top five finish on the final lap with Joey Logano. Entering turn 3, Logano underneath Busch slipped up off the bottom of the turn. He made contact with Busch who was sent spinning. Busch’s Toyota spun down onto pit road but made no contact. He was able to slide across the line 22nd, Logano was scored 4th.
After the race Busch confronted Logano. A wrestling match ensued with Logano being pulled away, and Busch tangling with crewmembers on the ground. Busch walked away from the fray bloodied on his forehead.
“I don’t know,” Logano said when asked what happened. “We were just racing hard there at the end. I was underneath him on the backstretch and he tried to crash me into the corner getting underneath Brad (Keselowski) there and at that point I was just trying get through the corner. I was sideways all the way through and get into him. Nothing intentional. I understand his frustration, he crashed. The same thing could have happened into 3 what he did to me.”
Busch wasn’t so forgiving.
“I got dumped,” he said. “He just flat-out drove straight into the corner and wrecked me. That’s how Joey races. He’s gonna get it.”
Greg is the author of "The Nuts and Bolts of NASCAR: The Definitive Viewers' Guide to Big-Time Stock Car Auto Racing" and has been published in major publications across the country including the Los Angeles Times, the Cleveland Plain Dealer and the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. He was also a contributor to Chicken Soup for the NASCAR Soul, published in 2010, and the Christmas edition in 2016. He wrote as the NASCAR, Formula 1, Auto Reviews and National Veterans Affairs Examiner for Examiner.com and has appeared on Fox News. He holds a BS degree in communications, a Masters degree in psychology and is currently a PhD candidate majoring in psychology. He is currently the weekend Motorsports Editor for Autoweek.
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