Kenseth, Logano haven’t settled it
Like an angry couple who can’t get past the issue of the spouse who keeps leaving the milk out of the fridge, Matt Kenseth and Joey Logano have a relationship that has gone sour again.
Logano gave Kenseth a Talladega love tap during the Geico 500 on Sunday, which led to Kenseth getting shoved from the front pack to the middle one.
Which in turn put Kenseth in harm’s way as his car was sent spinning and flipping in the air later in the race.
It looked horrific, although Kenseth walked away fine … except for the burn he felt inside.
“We had a good car and I’m not sure at first what happened — the 22 (Logano) ran me off the race track, and that got me way behind so I thought we were done with that, but maybe we aren’t.”
To review, Kenseth received a two-race suspension near the end of the 2015 season for purposely wrecking Logano at Martinsville, an act he deemed necessary payback for previous encounters.
He had some words for Logano outside the infield care center Sunday, an exchange that Logano brushed off as part of doing business.
Regardless, it’s obvious that Kenseth and Logano are not “done with that.”
Talladega spares Tony:
As track workers at Talladega scrape off the final piece of sheet metal from Sunday’s carnage, a bit of good news:
Tony Stewart wasn’t involved in any of it. Lord knows it’s been a rough year already for Stewart, who missed the first eight races of the season after suffering a back injury riding an ATV near Phoenix before the Daytona 500.
Per doctor’s orders, he had to hop out of the car early at Talladega before giving way to Ty Dillon on Lap 53.
Regardless, “Smoke” was feisty as ever.
“It sucks, to be honest,” he said after getting out of the car. “I know why we have to do it, but it sucks. It still sucks that you have to do it but if I hadn’t broke my back at the end of January, we wouldn’t be in this situation. Good news is this is the last timewe have to do it, and I am back in nextweek.”
Last word: Austin Dillon, on the dicey dynamics of restrictor-plate racing:“We all have to do it. I don’t knowhowmany really love it. But I know our moms and wives and girlfriends, they don’t like it because they have to watch their loved ones put themselves in situations they don’t like.”
— George Diaz