Matt Kenseth Takes Out Joey Logano at Martinsville Speedway Sunday, Nov. 1st 2015
11-4-2015 | Tom J. | MSN Sports Story
NASCAR suspended Matt Kenseth for two races Tuesday afternoon for deliberately wrecking Joey Logano in the closing laps on Sunday at Martinsville Speedway.
Kenseth, frustrated over a series of incidents with Logano and his Team Penske teammate Brad Keselowski, drilled Logano into the wall on Lap 454 of the 500-lap race at Martinsville. At the time of the incident, Logano was leading and Kenseth was 10 laps down.
That was not the first incident between Kenseth and the Penske drivers in the race.
On Lap 435, Keselowski triggered a crash on the backstretch that wrecked Kenseth's car and cost him a shot at a good finish.
Two weeks earlier at Kansas Speedway, Logano made contact with Kenseth, spinning him out while Kenseth was leading the race. Instead of winning at Kansas and advancing in the Chase, Kenseth finished 14th. He was eliminated from the championship battle the following week at Talladega in the final race of the Contender Round of the Chase.
Kenseth believes Logano wrecked him intentionally at Kansas.
"He's lying when he said he didn't do it on purpose because he lifted your tires off the ground offset to the left, and he's too good a race car driver to do that by accident," Kenseth said of Logano.
The tension between Kenseth and the Team Penske drivers stretches back more than a year. At Charlotte Motor Speedway in October 2014, Kenseth famously ran after Keselowski and put him in a headlock after Keselowski hit Kenseth's car on pit road after the race.
The last time NASCAR suspended a driver for on-track contact was four years ago at Texas Motor Speedway, when Kyle Busch was forced to miss both the NASCAR Sprint Cup and XFINITY Series races after deliberately wrecking Ron Hornaday Jr. in a Camping World Truck Series race at that track.
Conversely, NASCAR did not suspend Jeff Gordon for intentionally hitting Clint Bowyer in Phoenix in 2012, or Carl Edwards for flipping Keselowski at Atlanta in 2010.
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