"Don’t know what happened, it just took off on me. Sorry about that," Keselowski told his team over the radio after the incident.

Just after the wreck, the race was red-flagged at Lap 23 as rain began falling again. The official leaderboard has the No. 22 scored 42nd and the No. 2 in 43rd.

Both drivers returned to race after it resumed with Keselowski finishing in 35th, 22 laps down. Logano finished in 40th, 59 laps down and saw his streak of seven top-10 finishes to open the season end.

While it’s hard to say whether the weather conditions played into the mishap at all, the 2012 Sprint Cup Series champion was reticent to completely, as Milli Vanilli once lip-synced, "Blame It on the Rain."

"The rain was coming in and out and the car just took off on me. I would like to blame the rain, but I honestly don’t know," Keselowski said. "Usually when a car gets that far sideways and it’s kind of out of nowhere there’s a reason behind it.

"I hate racing in the rain, but I understand the position that NASCAR is in. They want to get the race going and this is one of those days where it’s gonna just keep raining off and on and we’re trying to get as many laps in at a time as we can to give the fans the best race possible, but we’re racing in the rain to do it and that’s what happens."

Most of all, he hates "that I took out my teammate in the process."

As far as the view from the No. 22, Logano mentioned that Keselowski’s car was free "from the beginning" and just got a little too loose. Given that he’s the most recent winner at Bristol, Sunday’s incident has to be all the more frustrating.

"Brad just got loose underneath that lapped car," Logano said. "You start checking up and it looked like he was gonna have it saved and he checked up more than I expected and the next thing you know I’m in the back of him and we’re both headed towards the fence. The last thing you want to see when you’ve got a rain delay here. It’s just such a bummer for both Penske cars."

One might think that where both Penske cars are already virtually locked into the Chase for the NASCAR Sprint Cup via wins at Daytona and Auto Club, the sting of Sunday’s early woes might be a little less painful.

But that is not close to the case.

"That doesn’t help anything," Logano said. "I want to win a race."

Logano indicated during the delay that the plan was to get back out and run as many laps as possible.

Not what we wanted for @AutoTrader_com. They are a great sponsor with just 1 race a year. We will fix it and ride around. Man this sucks.

— Joey Logano (@joeylogano) April 19, 2015

Keselowski, meanwhile, summed up his thoughts with the following tweet:

Days like today are times when I wish I knew where to find the poop emoji.

— Brad Keselowski (@keselowski) April 19, 2015

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The victory was Kenseth’s fourth at Bristol, his most at any track, and the 32nd of his career. Kenseth broke a 51-race winless streak dating to the Chase for the NASCAR Sprint Cup race at New Hampshire Motor Speedway in September 2013. The win all but locks up Kenseth’s spot in the Chase.
 
"It feels good to be back here," Kenseth said, sitting at the dais for the winner’s press conference. "Really, honestly, it does, it wears on you a little bit. We had such a good 2013 (seven victories), we came a little short of the ultimate prize there, but we had such a great season, and last year there were some races we had some chances to win and just things wouldn’t line up for us.
 
"We just couldn’t get it to happen. Tonight was kind of the opposite. Everything worked out. We had a good car on the short run, not so good on the last 40 or 50 laps of the run, and we had all them cautions and short runs at the end that really benefited us."
 
Ricky Stenhouse Jr. ran fourth, followed by Ryan Newman. Danica Patrick was ninth, recording her second top-10 of the year and the sixth of her career, breaking a tie with Janet Guthrie for most ever by a female driver.
 
Johnson’s second-place finish was an adventure. The driver of the No. 48 Chevrolet survived two wrecks and a lost lap (which he regained as the highest-scored lapped car under caution for debris on Lap 344).
 
Johnson first sustained damage when Kurt Busch‘s car twitched underneath him in Turn 3 and sent Johnson’s Chevrolet spinning.
 
"Yeah, the first half of the race or first third of the race I was behind the 24 (Gordon), and we just worked our way up through the field and things went pretty smoothly," said Johnson, who started 28th after a lackluster qualifying effort. "I had a very fast race car and felt like we were going to have a strong night. And then one of the restarts midway through the race, the 41 (Busch) — I don’t know what happened — but he lost control, got into me.
 
"I went into the outside wall in Turn 3, and a caution came out. We had a fair amount of damage to the right rear quarter panel. I didn’t think I hit that hard, but after I got out of the race car and saw the damage, no wonder it didn’t drive very good after that, and we needed two or three pit stops to get the quarter panel pushed back down so there was some sideforce on the back of the car on corner entry and once we did that, we weren’t as good as we were at the start of the race but still very competitive.
 
"(Crew chief) Chad (Knaus) called for two (tires) late in the race. That picked us up a few more spots, and then I think the last two restarts I was in the outside lane, and that helped me out quite a bit. Wild night, but glad to get it in."
 
If Kenseth’s winless streak ended, so did the productive streaks of three other drivers. Kevin Harvick, Joey Logano and Martin Truex Jr. all had posted top 10s in each of the first seven Cup races this season, but all three drivers had major issues on Sunday.
 
Logano slammed into Penske teammate Brad Keselowski after Keselowski lost control on a slick track on Lap 18. After extensive repairs, Logano finished 40th.
 
Truex’s Chevrolet experienced a bad vibration, then a loose wheel. He finished 29th, seven laps down.
 
Harvick was unable to avoid the wrecked car of David Ragan after contact between Johnson and Jeb Burton started a melee on lap 310. Harvick, who led 184 laps before the accident, spent 43 laps in the garage for repairs and came home 38th.
 
Nevertheless, Harvick, Logano and Truex hold the top three positions in the series standings. Harvick leads Logano by 30 points and Truex by 33. Johnson is fourth, 56 points back.

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