After starting on the pole and running inside the top 15 throughout much of the afternoon, Joey Logano’s winning hopes faded with hard wall contact and a gnarly spin through the infield in the NASCAR Cup Series race on Sunday at Las Vegas Motor Speedway.
On Lap 182 of the 267-lap marathon, Logano and Brad Keselowski made contact fighting for position in the turn, sending Logano’s No. 22 Ford bouncing off the wall and through the infield. While Logano was able to work his way back to pit road, the 10-allotted minutes on the Damaged Vehicle Policy clock expired, forcing him behind the wall and into the garage.
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“Yeah, he did,” Logano said, when asked if Keselowski pinched him in the corner. “I’m sure he didn’t mean to do it. It is what it is. What are you going to do, right? We got fenced.”
Logano finished 13th in Stage 1 and 14th in Stage 2. He was credited with a last-place finish and his first DNF in 20 starts at Las Vegas.
Keselowski suffered minor damage, stayed in the race and finished 17th.