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Steve O’Donnell, NASCAR Executive Vice President and Chief Racing Development Officer, said Monday that competition officials were continuing to review Sunday’s post-race conflict between Kyle Busch and Joey Logano at Las Vegas Motor Speedway, but the sanctioning body is inclined "not to react" pending further video review.

O’Donnell’s remarks came Monday morning in a guest appearance on SiriusXM NASCAR Radio’s "Morning Drive" program.

O’Donnell said NASCAR’s competition department was reviewing video footage of the incident, which stemmed from on-track contact between the two drivers’ cars on the last lap of Sunday’s Kobalt 400. Logano’s No. 22 Ford slid into Busch’s No. 18 Toyota in between Turns 3 and 4. The bump sent Busch spinning to a 22nd-place finish, while Logano drove away to place fourth.

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Busch walked with purpose toward Logano after exiting his car on pit road, then lunged at his rival after reaching him. The two were pulled apart, but Busch wound up at the bottom of a pile in a scuffle with officials and crews. A NASCAR official escorted Busch, bloodied by a nick on his forehead, from the scene.

"It’s certainly under review," O’Donnell said. "We have to take everything, make sure we look at all the video, but just from our in assessment last night, as far as on-track I don’t think we saw anything that was intentional by any means. We have to have discussions with both drivers. I think our intention would be not to react unless we see something we haven’t seen yet."

"It’s an emotional sport," O’Donnell added, "and I think it shows exactly how much every position on the track means."

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NASCAR officials had no immediate comment about the incident Sunday. O’Donnell also said that officials from the sanctioning body would bring Busch and Logano together for further discussions before getting back on track at Phoenix Raceway.

Asked about the possibility on punishment for crew members on Logano’s No. 22 team, who jumped into the fray after Busch threw a swing, O’Donnell reinforced that NASCAR prefers to leave things in the hands of its drivers.

"What our position has been is that we want to leave it in the drivers’ hands," O’Donnell said. "What we don’t want to see — and the drivers have asked for this, which is very fair — is a crew member initially approaching a driver or initiating some type of altercation with a driver. The early review of this is, this was two drivers with crew members kind of stepping back. Once something happens, a crew is taught, which I think is right, that if someone comes up in your pit box and attacks your guy, you have the right to try and break that up or bring it to a stop. I think that was the initial review that we saw."

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NASCAR Chairman and CEO Brian France said Monday that the sanctioning body is "not going to get too wound up about" Sunday’s post-race altercation between Kyle Busch and Joey Logano at Las Vegas Motor Speedway.

France’s remarks came during an impromptu appearance Monday afternoon on SiriusXM NASCAR Radio’s "Tradin’ Paint" program.

Last-lap contact between the cars in a contest for fourth place left Busch fuming at Logano after the Kobalt 400 for the Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series. Busch’s No. 18 Toyota spun toward pit road while Logano drove away from their collision to take the position.

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Busch marched toward Logano’s No. 22 Ford afterward and took a swipe at his rival, setting off a scrum that involved both crewmembers and NASCAR officials. The two were separated and had harsh words for each other afterward.

Steve O’Donnell, NASCAR Executive Vice President and Chief Racing Development Officer, told SiriusXM on Monday morning that competition officials were inclined "not to react" pending a review of video footage of the altercation. France echoed O’Donnell’s feelings, reiterating that the emotions and high stakes that helped spark Sunday’s outburst are inherent in stock-car racing.

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"Listen, it’s an emotional sport as you know," France told SiriusXM. "There’s so much on the line for all these drivers and teams. … So much is expected of these guys to do their thing, so when things happen that are going to happen at a race, it’s not terribly crazy to understand that emotions are going to blow over sometimes, and we get that."

France spoke out against on-track retaliation, saying that he believed Busch and Logano would work through their differences and that the incident would not carry over from Las Vegas to another venue.

"My guess is that Kyle and Joey will sort that out and there really won’t be anything we need to worry about down the road," France said. "If there is, we’ll deal with it. We’ll look at the tape and look at the crewmember participation and different things, but we also want to be realistic that this is … there is just a lot of emotion and a lot of pressure on these guys to do well and compete at a high level. And when something goes terribly wrong, as it did for Kyle, emotions are going to get the best of all of us at some point or another. Obviously, that’s what happened on Sunday."

France also touched on several other pressing topics in his Monday appearance:

On Las Vegas Motor Speedway adding a second Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series event in place of New Hampshire Motor Speedway: "Clearly, Las Vegas is a very accepted NASCAR market, but on balance, we don’t like to see any track lose an event. It just has a bad feeling in your stomach when that happens."

On the racing produced by breaking events into three stages in NASCAR’s national series: "So whenever we do that, whether it’s stage racing or giving greater incentives, then obviously you get a higher performance level. And that’s true of any sport, not just us."

On the move to reducing downforce in NASCAR’s aerodynamic rules: "I was not a fan originally on the lower-downforce package, but I’m wrong a little bit on that — or a lot wrong — because that’s proven to be the cars are harder to drive, it’s more exciting for sure, and so the net of it is that attendance is up and ratings have been up and we’re happy with things, but watching every week to make sure we deliver the best racing in the world."

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LAS VEGAS — Leaving his wrecked No. 18 Toyota on pit road following Sunday’s Kobalt 400 at Las Vegas Motor Speedway, Kyle Busch walked briskly with a purpose to Joey Logano and the No. 22 Ford. Without word, he immediately threw a punch at Logano, triggering a fight between the two on the ground and chaos on pit road involving crew men and NASCAR officials.

A Team Penske public relations employee pulled Logano forcefully away from the incident, while Busch remained on the ground, tussling with several members of the No. 22 crew in a sea of yellow fire suits. A NASCAR official pulled Busch from the brawl and he and another official restrained Busch, shouting, "Kyle!" as Busch flailed his elbows and struggled to break free.

They led him away from the scene, as the surrounding crowd reacted loudly.

"I got dumped," Busch said, a trickle of blood rolling down his forehead and onto his nose as he strode away from the track. "Flat-out just drove straight into the corner and wrecked us. That’s how Joey races, so he’s gonna get it."

Busch and Logano were running in the top five and racing hard for position on the last lap when Logano appeared to become loose and made contact with Busch’s No. 18 Toyota before the final turn, sending it spinning across the track. Logano crossed the start/finish line fourth, while Busch was 22nd.

"We were just racing hard there at the end," Logano said, red-faced after the incident. "I was underneath him on the backstretch and he tried to crash me into the corner getting underneath Brad (Keselowski) there and at that point I was just trying get through the corner. I was sideways all the way through and get into him. Nothing intentional.

"I understand his frustration, he crashed. The same thing could have happened into (Turn) 3 what he did to me."

Logano said he saw Busch walking toward him angrily at the end of the race, but there weren’t any words exchanged prior to the brawl.

"He wasn’t in a talking mood," Logano said. "He was in a fighting mood, I guess. I don’t know. Typically, you can handle this stuff like men and talk about it. You don’t have to fight, but whatever.

"I’ve never had an issue with Kyle," he continued. "Kyle and I have always raced really well together. We’ve never had an issue, but I guess that’s over."

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Busch made a trip to the infield care center after the pit-road spat, but was not called to the NASCAR hauler. No. 22 crew chief Todd Gordon, along with a handful of Team Penske crew members did visit the NASCAR hauler after the race, but on their own consensus, according to a NASCAR official. No one was called to the hauler.

Joe Gibbs Racing team owner Joe Gibbs sped away from the garage quickly on a golf cart.

NASCAR Vice Chairman Mike Helton and NASCAR Executive Vice President and Chief Racing Development Officer Steve O’Donnell also stepped into the NASCAR hauler, but did not comment on the incident. A NASCAR official said the sanctioning body likely would not make any statements Sunday because officials need to review footage before any decisions are made.