Sunday (May 19) marked the second time that the NASCAR Cup Series held its All-Star Race at North Wilkesboro Speedway.
As compared to last year, people could move around. It was something of a slog with the old pavement that was older than I am.
Of course, Sunday night’s All-Star Race will be remembered best for the post-race fracas. Before we get to that, we have to talk about the coverage that led up to it.
As you can see, the broadcast caught Kyle Busch getting into the wall exiting turn 2 on the first lap live. There was no mention at the time of actual contact being made to cause it. Regardless, Busch was angry.
Clint Bowyer made a note on-air immediately that Busch was going to pay Ricky Stenhouse Jr. back for the slight. Sure enough, he did.
While no contact was made here that put Busch in the wall, Bowyer said that Stenhouse “pushed [Busch] up into the wall.”
Basically, he squeezed him. I don’t think anything intentional happened here on Stenhouse’s part, but Busch overreacted. As for FOX Sports, the coverage here was ok. I didn’t really have too much of an issue with it.
Afterward, Stenhouse talked with Jamie Little about how he thought Busch was mad after his wall contact. He then referenced the time that Busch got in a fight with his current car owner Richard Childress in 2011.
What I don’t understand here is that the booth didn’t seem to believe that anything was going to happen after the race. We knew that Stenhouse was stuck in the infield until the race ended since North Wilkesboro doesn’t have a tunnel.
This isn’t the 1980s. NASCAR isn’t going to let drivers out of the race run across the track under yellow so that they can leave the track.
As far as I’m concerned, the above interview and the subsequent one that Stenhouse did with reporters afterward argue intent to confront Busch after the race. I thought the heck was going to go down at that point. I disapprove of the aforementioned heck.
Now for the fracas itself. That fight went down during Joey Logano’s interview on the frontstretch.
This is the view of the donnybrook from our own Anthony Damcott. The view you saw on FOX Sports 1 is from the man with the gray and black baseball cap on the right. You can see that he…
Click Here to Read the Full Original Article at …