Matt Kenseth won the prestigious Slinger Nationals title Tuesday night, moving his NASCAR teammate Erik Jones (Joe Gibbs Racing) out of the way in a move that had Kenseth apologizing.
A late-race restart at Slinger Speedway -- a quarter-mile high-banked track located in Slinger, Wisconsin -- led to a hearty bump in the renowned Super Late Model, non-NASCAR event. (In the video below, Kenseth is in the No. 8 and Jones is in the No. 20.
"My move wasn't a very good one," Kenseth told the Sentinel-Journal newspaper. "It was definitely uncalled for. I hit him way too hard. … It was definitely way too extreme, way too hard. I was just trying to move him up off the bottom a little bit and overshot it a bit."
It was the seventh Slinger Nationals title for Kenseth, a Wisconsin native.
"That's not really short-track racing in my book," Erik Jones told the Milwaukee newspaper, which reported the two drivers spoke after the race.
Kenseth and Jones will both head to Indianapolis Motor Speedway next for this week's respective NASCAR Sprint Cup Series and NASCAR XFINITY Series races.