Joey logano vs matt kenseth wreck at martinsville speedway. Joey logano is the 2018 nascar cup series champion and the driver of the no. Watch the joey logano and matt kenseth crash video and interviews. Kenseth, eliminated from chase contention a week after contact with logano at kansas speedway as the two battled for the lead, was already laps down and nursing a. Matt kenseth taking out joey logano with driver interviews i tried to shorten it up as much as possible with showing everything that needed to. Its no secret that tyler reddick is a talented stock car driver. That retaliation, while cheered by many in the crowd as it ended logano s day, resulted in kenseth getting parked for the rest of the race and a suspension for the next two events. Matt kenseth suspended two races for intentionally. He made an agreement with his father, roy, that roy should buy a car and race, and matt would work on the car until he was old enough to race. Joey logano has had seasondefining moments at martinsville. Joey logano vs matt kenseth wreck martinsville nascar. Did you notice joey loganos historic martinsville mayhem.
Drivers are going to be like, well, he aint going to do nothing. Don petersenassociated press it is surrounded by meadows where. Kenseth retaliated two weeks later at martinsville speedway in virginia, sending loganos car. Kenseth was suspended by nascar for two races for intentionally wrecking logano here. Watch the joey logano and matt kenseth crash video below. Matt kenseth 20 rams joey logano 22 at martinsville last fall.
Matt kenseth 20 intentionally wrecks joey logano 22 payback from an incident three races ago to take the race leader out with 47 laps remaining, and jeff gordon went on to win the nascar sprint cup series auto race at martinsville speedway in martinsville, va. Matt kenseth puts joey logano into wall at martinsville. Kenseth became the first premier division driver to be suspended multiple races due to ontrack behavior for deliberately taking out logano during the nov. In response to the martinsville incident, nascar officials announced that kenseth has been suspended for the next two sprint cup races and placed on nascar probation. Nascar suspends matt kenseth for 2 races for actions. Matt kenseth vs joey logano payback martinsville fall 2015 full. Nascar slaps kenseth with tworace suspension over logano. It was a solid day for us here at martinsville speedway. Highlights of matt kenseths nascar career nascar talk nbc. The matt kenseth vs joey logano battle came to blows at martinsville speedway. After wrecking earlier in the race at martinsville, kenseth, who was 10 laps down, decided to exact his revenge as joey, the leader, passed him by. 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. Nascar suspends matt kenseth 2 races for wrecking joey logano nascar announced matt kenseth will be suspended two races for wrecking joey logano at martinsville on sunday.
Unapologetic matt kenseth defends wrecking joey logano at. With matt kenseth returning to the cup season for the rest of the. Nascar veteran matt kenseth earned headlines, cheers and criticism sunday at martinsville speedway for his intentional crash of race leader joey logano. Matt kenseth had just turned joey logano hard into the martinsville speedway wall. Nascar suspends matt kenseth 2 races for wrecking joey logano. Nascar parks matt kenseth 2 races for wrecking joey logano. The joey logano vs matt kenseth battle came to blows at martinsville speedway. But in a telephone interview with the associated press, kenseth said he. Matt kenseth says he has no regrets over wrecking joey logano.
What drivers said after martinsville playoff race nascar talk. Kenseth was once again battling for the lead at martinsville when he ended up making contact with logano s team mate brad keselowski on lap 436 as the penske pair tried to work in tandem at the. Ap joey logano kept peeking around matt kenseth as the laps ticked away at kansas speedway, the two of them in entirely different situations in the chase for the sprint cup. Matt kenseth vs joey logano wreck at martinsville speedway. Penskes joey logano booked his place in the nascar cup title decider by sealing martinsville victory in a lastcorner collision with martin truex jr.
Plenty of hype surrounding joey loganos and matt kenseth. Joey logano vs matt kenseth hits boiling point at martinsville speedway. Jeff gordon went on to win the race and will battle. The second part of the melodrama unfolded tuesday evening. Nascar suspends kenseth for two races for wrecking joey. Nascar has suspended matt kenseth for two races for deliberately wrecking joey logano in the closing laps on sunday at martinsville speedway. Joey logano 22 and matt kenseth 20 tangle in turn 1 during the nascar sprint cup series auto race at martinsville speedway in martinsville, va. In 2015, matt kenseth, who had been eliminated from championship. Logano once lost the chance at a championship after not calling a driver. Nascars top 5 moments from martinsville speedway nbc sports.
Joey logano, matt kenseth put 2015 feud behind them. Martinsville speedway is set to kick off the threerace round of 8 of the fourround. See more ideas about martinsville speedway, martinsville, nascar racing. You can call matt kenseth s wrecking joey logano on sunday at martinsville quintessential nascar or a real nightmare for the sport. Kenseth was once again battling for the lead at martinsville when he ended up making contact with loganos team mate brad keselowski on lap.
The next week at martinsville, logano had the dominant car for most of the race. Drivers have been suspended before for ontrack actions, but. Nascar has suspended matt kenseth for two races and placed the no. A revengedminded matt kenseth appeared to deliberately wreck raceleader joey logano during sundays championship playoff race at martinsville speedway.
Matt kenseth wrecked joey logano as logano led in sundays race at martinsville speedway the. Nascar matt kenseth gave joey logano his payback sunday. Matt kenseth vs joey logano hits boiling point at martinsville speedway. Nascar has suspended sprint cup driver matt kenseth for two races after he wrecked leader joey logano with 47 laps remaining in the goodys 500 on sunday at martinsville speedway. Eight drivers remain in championship contention with four tickets to the. Logano qualified for the nascar playoffs in 2020 with a win at las vegas motor speedway and then. Joey loganos bid for a fourthstraight win in the chase went away thanks to the bumper of matt kenseth and his title chances might have disappeared as well. Kenseth wrecks logano in closing laps at martinsville video. Looking to squash any notion that the drivers are running amok on the track, nascar suspended matt kenseth for two races tuesday. Click here to visit our frequently asked questions about html5 video. Though, truex stated the phone call featured a cuss word or two. Joey logano has spent the year playing second fiddle to nascars big three.
Kenseth who was multiple laps down took out leader joey logano with under 50 laps to go, of 500 at martinsville. At lap 454, bam, matt kenseth ran joey into the wall, creaming both cars in the process. Matt kenseth wrecks joey logano after logano puts kenseth a lap down at martinsville speedway. Please feel free to get in touch with any questions you may have. See more ideas about nascar, joey logano and nascar racing. Joey logano nascar driver page stats, results, bio.
Joey logano, nascar reap what they sow in martinsville. Matt kenseth suspended for 2 races for intentionally. Kenseth, 44 years old and 614 starts into his cup career, now moves to the 2017 season amid routine questions about his future in nascar. Two weeks after matt kenseth was taken out by joey logano, kenseth returned the favor, wrecking him when logano was. Matt kenseth wrecking joey logano and driver inter youtube. Theres been no word about a contract extension between. Nascar playoffs at martinsville, where blood will boil.
Logano vs kenseth is good for nascar, and nascar knows it. In addition to the tworace suspension, kenseth will be on nascar probation for six months. The tension between joey logano and matt kenseth boiled over at martinsville speedway on sunday, ultimately overshadowing jeff gordons win in. But when kenseth put race leader joey logano into the wall on lap 455 at martinsville speedway on sunday, it was more than retribution for loganos hardracing efforts two weeks earlier. If you think matt kenseth is the only nascar driver having issues with logano, you havent been paying attention. Matt kenseth crashes joey logano at martinsville videos. Speedway and added a grandfather clock to his trophy case. Matt kenseth suspended two races for taking out joey. Joe gibbs racings matt kenseth got his revenge on rival joey logano sunday at martinsville speedway, wrecking the team penske driver as he was leading sundays chase race at martinsville speedway.
Joey logano says matt kenseth will have his after wreck. Joey logano 22 and matt kenseth 20 tangle in turn 1 during the nascar sprint cup series auto race at martinsville speedway in virginia on sunday. My dad bought a car when i was and raced it at madison, kenseth said. Just as big of a story as gordon winning was matt kenseth putting logano into the wall on. Initial crash between keselowski and kenseth, payback with logano and kenseth, replays and interviews. Logano knocked kenseths car out of the way as he raced to a win oct. The context of the phone call was slightly different than the postrace interviews at martinsville speedway. The incident raised questions over what is acceptable given the. The matt kensethjoey logano feud moved to a higher level sunday as the two drivers crashed hard in the final laps of the goodys headache relief. However, matt kenseth, in retaliation for logano spinning him out a couple weeks earlier, deliberately crashed logano with less than 50 laps to go.
Logano was running on a hot streak, having nabbed the pole at martinsville, before the wreck. Logano spins out kenseth late, wins at kansas speedway. You can call matt kenseths wrecking joey logano on sunday at martinsville quintessential nascar or a real nightmare for the sport. Fed up with getting crashed, a ninelapsdown matt kenseth drove leader joey logano into the wall with 46 laps remaining. The unimpressed joey logano expressed his disapproval after the crash, as quoted by autoweek. Penskes joey logano will be familiar with the view from pole position at martinsville speedway, having started at the front in the last two events at the halfmile oval and now successfully. Matt kenseth, joey logano meet again at martinsville. Matt kenseth wrecks joey logano at martinsville official. Kenseth began stock car racing in 1988 at the age of 16 at madison international speedway.
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