Not even race winner Denny Hamlin’s Toyota was immune to body damage as he claimed his fourth victory at the NASCAR Sprint Cup race in Pocono, Pennsylvania.
In the rain-delayed race that resembled a short-track rumble at the 2.5 mile (4km) oval, Hamlin’s teammate, Kyle Busch, finished second and Tony Stewart was third. "Restarts were idiotic today. I've seen some of the worst driving I've ever seen in my life in a professional series,” said Stewart.
A scary eight-car crash occurred at the tunnel turn on the last lap, of a green-white checkered finish on lap 204, well behind the winner.
After the race Denny Hamlin, doing a burn out on the long main straight, put his car into the wall, nose first, damaging the front end.
Although he started 16th , but led 88 laps, Denny Hamlin said “it was similar to our win last year. I just drove through those guys, to get the win.” Then referring to the body damage he added “I owe the fab shop.”
The big accident was caused when AJ Allmendinger drove Kasey Kahne down off the track, Kahne spun in the west grass.
Kahne tried to recover, but bounded across the track in front of a cavalry charge of bunched up cars. It looked like he peeled the skin off of Mark Martin’s and Greg Biffle’s cars, then Kahne got airborne, and landed collecting Martin Truex, Jr. Jeff Gordon couldn’t slow down and hit Kahne.
David Ragan and Marcos Ambrose were also involved with the Aussie hitting the inside wall.
Kahne calmly said “he (AJ) just darts left I couldn’t turn against it. Bad way to end the day. I don't talk to AJ hardly ever and I doubt I am going to talk to him about this.”
Allmendinger said “I am not really sure what happened. Kasey had such a run on me and I went to defend. By the time I defended he was in the grass. That is my bad. I feel bad about that, I really do. It is what it is though.”
On lap 199 Joey Logano, who had a top-five finish in sight, was spun by Kevin Harvick as both drivers appeared to be racing for the piece of the track. After the race he had to be restrained by his crew as he tried to go over to talk to his rival.
“Was racing the 29 (Harvick) and he let me go in the middle on the back straightaway and then decided to dump me on the next lap,” said Logano adding, "it's probably not his fault, his wife wears the firesuit in the family, tells him what to do, so it's probably not his fault. ... I don't know what I ever did to (tick) him off but he's obviously stupid."
Kevin Harvick -- the points leader -- who hadn’t heard Logano’s remarks said that it was just a racing accident.
In the rain-delayed race that resembled a short-track rumble at the 2.5 mile (4km) oval, Hamlin’s teammate, Kyle Busch, finished second and Tony Stewart was third. "Restarts were idiotic today. I've seen some of the worst driving I've ever seen in my life in a professional series,” said Stewart.
A scary eight-car crash occurred at the tunnel turn on the last lap, of a green-white checkered finish on lap 204, well behind the winner.
After the race Denny Hamlin, doing a burn out on the long main straight, put his car into the wall, nose first, damaging the front end.
Although he started 16th , but led 88 laps, Denny Hamlin said “it was similar to our win last year. I just drove through those guys, to get the win.” Then referring to the body damage he added “I owe the fab shop.”
The big accident was caused when AJ Allmendinger drove Kasey Kahne down off the track, Kahne spun in the west grass.
Kahne tried to recover, but bounded across the track in front of a cavalry charge of bunched up cars. It looked like he peeled the skin off of Mark Martin’s and Greg Biffle’s cars, then Kahne got airborne, and landed collecting Martin Truex, Jr. Jeff Gordon couldn’t slow down and hit Kahne.
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David Ragan and Marcos Ambrose were also involved with the Aussie hitting the inside wall.
Kahne calmly said “he (AJ) just darts left I couldn’t turn against it. Bad way to end the day. I don't talk to AJ hardly ever and I doubt I am going to talk to him about this.”
Allmendinger said “I am not really sure what happened. Kasey had such a run on me and I went to defend. By the time I defended he was in the grass. That is my bad. I feel bad about that, I really do. It is what it is though.”
On lap 199 Joey Logano, who had a top-five finish in sight, was spun by Kevin Harvick as both drivers appeared to be racing for the piece of the track. After the race he had to be restrained by his crew as he tried to go over to talk to his rival.
“Was racing the 29 (Harvick) and he let me go in the middle on the back straightaway and then decided to dump me on the next lap,” said Logano adding, "it's probably not his fault, his wife wears the firesuit in the family, tells him what to do, so it's probably not his fault. ... I don't know what I ever did to (tick) him off but he's obviously stupid."
Kevin Harvick -- the points leader -- who hadn’t heard Logano’s remarks said that it was just a racing accident.