Hours after staff proprietor Roger Penske’s IndyCar drivers swept the front row for this year’s Indianapolis 500 in qualifying, Logano added a $1 million prize along with his win in NASCAR’s annual all-star occasion.
Logano, who has but to win a points-paying NASCAR Cup race this season, began on pole and led 199 of the 200 laps. Denny Hamlin ended up Logano’s hardest challenger, almost grabbing the lead on a three-wide transfer halfway within the race, and he additionally closed the hole within the last laps as Logano edged him by 0.636 seconds.
However the main flashpoint was elsewhere, because the race ended with a struggle within the storage between Stenhouse Jr. and Busch.
In the beginning of the race Busch obtained free and up into the skin wall on the opening lap after which additionally on lap 2, which despatched him into Stenhouse and compelled the #47 out of the race. A pissed off Stenhouse then parked his wrecked automotive in Busch’s pit slot.
After the race, Stenhouse – who needed to wait till the top of the race as thee is not any infield tunnel – confronted Busch, which resulted in a heated confrontation and ended with fists flying, with Stenhouse laying the primary hit on Busch.
NASCAR will look into the post-race fracas and any penalties can be introduced subsequent week.
Watch: Ricky Stenhouse Jr. swings on Kyle Busch post-race at North Wilkesboro
“I felt Kyle and I by no means had any points and I wrecked him one time at Daytona and he form of dangerous mouthed me ever since then,” Stenhouse stated after the incident.
“I’m undecided why he was so mad – yeah, I shoved it three-wide, however he hit the fence, form of got here off the fence and bumped into me. After I was speaking to him, he stored saying that I wrecked him. It was positively built-up frustration with how he runs his mouth on a regular basis about myself.
“I do know he’s pissed off as a result of he doesn’t run close to pretty much as good as he used to.
“I used to be enthusiastic about the remainder of the night time, and he ruined it.”
Busch, who completed tenth out of the 20 automobiles, left the monitor with out remark.
Behind winner Logano and runner-up Hamlin, Chris Buescher ended up third, with Kyle Larson – who certified fifth for the Indy 500 earlier within the day – in fourth as Ryan Blaney rounded out the highest 5.