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A wreck late Sunday at Martinsville Speedway impacted multiple Chase drivers after an aggressive restart, a recurring theme during the Goody’s Headache Relief Shot 500.
The No. 2 of Brad Keselowski got into the No. 20 of Matt Kenseth off Turn 2 on Lap 434. This sent Kenseth’s Toyota spinning directly into the right side of Kurt Busch‘s No. 41.
Jeff Gordon, eight-time Martinsville winner, carefully skirted involvment and avoided damage.
Keselowski, who has led for a total of 143 laps, took his Team Penske Ford to the garage immediately with significant damage. Busch had to pit for significant work to his car.
After stepping out of driver’s seat, Keselowski said, “I got hit from behind and (that) pushed me into the 20 and my right-front wheel hit Kenseth’s left-rear and it just broke the right-front suspension off the car. The car wouldn’t turn and just kept going straight until I couldn’t do anything and I started wrecking everybody. I just didn’t have any steering wheel left.”
At the end of the race’s 500 laps, Keselowski finished 32nd and Kurt was 34th. The Penske driver now sits sixth on the Chase grid with Busch right behind him in the seventh spot.