After Joey Logano and Matt Kenseth tangled while racing for the lead two weekends ago at Kansas Speedway, NASCAR chairman and CEO Brian France called the incident “a great example of everybody doing probably exactly what they should be doing.”
But after Sunday’s Chase race at Martinsville Speedway, where Kenseth dumped Logano in what appeared to be obvious payback for their Kansas dust-up, NASCAR may have a different perspective.
Unlike the Kansas wreck in which Logano knocked Kenseth out of the way as the two battled hard for an all-important win in the closing laps, Sunday’s collision came as Logano led and Kenseth nursed a slow and badly damaged car around the track after being involved in a separate wreck a few laps earlier.
As long as Jeff Gordon wins the championship NASCAR will be happy.