Joey Logano won the NASCAR Cup Series race at Las Vegas Motor Speedway Sunday (Oct. 16), securing his place in the Championship 4.
Logano had a tight battle with Ross Chastain in the final six laps, sliding just in front of him with less than three laps to go.
The No. 22 Team Penske driver earned his third win of the season.
Polesitter Tyler Reddick led the first several laps before Austin Cindric went by him around lap 34. Then after green flag pit stops, Daniel Suarez went out front.
Bubba Wallace took the lead on lap 57 and went on to win stage one after Kyle Busch’s spin brought out the caution shortly before the stage ended.
Things then went a bit wild after the start of stage two. Wallace lost the lead to Suarez and eventually went down to sixth place when a battle with Kyle Larson went south. Larson drove up close to Wallace in turn 3, causing the No. 45 to hit the wall. As they came down across the racetrack, Wallace appeared to turn down and hook Larson’s left rear, which sent the No. 5 back across and into Christopher Bell.
Contact between @BubbaWallace and @KyleLarsonRacin! @CBellRacing is involved! #NASCARPlayoffs pic.twitter.com/tnDoLks2dz
— NASCAR (@NASCAR) October 16, 2022
All three drivers’ days were done, with Bell being an innocent bystander.
After Wallace got out of his car, he confronted Larson on the frontstretch and shoved him a few times before they went their separate ways.
Bubba Wallace is NOT HAPPY with Kyle Larson.
Some pushes and shoves after they wreck. #NASCAR pic.twitter.com/aaAn0idrJp
— NASCAR on NBC (@NASCARonNBC) October 16, 2022
“Cliff [Daniels]’s smart enough to know how easily these cars break,” Wallace told NBC Sports. “When you get shoved into the fence deliberately like he did, trying to force me to lift, the steering was gone. He just so happened to be there. …
“Larson wanted to make a three-wide dive bomb, never cleared me. I don’t lift. I know I’m kinda new to running up front, but I don’t lift. Wasn’t even in a spot to lift, and he never lifted either, so now we’re junk. Just a piss-poor move on his execution.”
“No, (his reaction) didn’t surprise me,” Larson said to NBC Sports. “I obviously made an aggressive move into (turn) 3. I got in low and got it loose and chased it up a bit. He got into my right front and it got him tight and into the wall. I knew he was going to retaliate. He had a reason to be mad but his race wasn’t over until he…
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