Joey Logano recently shared his thoughts on his decade-old clash with Matt Kenseth. The Team Penske driver looked back on his 2015 Kansas Speedway wreck with the former driver but refused to change his “aggressive” methods despite having faced severe repercussions that year.
Kenseth dominated 153 laps at the 2015 Hollywood Casino 400 race, but the battle came down to the final moments when he tried to fend off the hard-charging Logano. The latter was aggressively bump drafting and spun the former while exiting through the turn.As a result, the Team Penske driver raked in his second consecutive win, while the Joe Gibbs Racing driver fell to a 12th-place finish. However, two race weekends later, Kenseth avenged the Kansas move by deliberately taking out polesitter Logano, at Martinsville Speedway.
Despite facing the harsh payback, Joey Logano in a look back at the incident, declined to change his racing approach, saying,
“I wouldn’t do any different.”
The two-time Cup Series champion elaborated further and said (via NASCAR).
“When I look back at it, I look at the race in Kansas, which kind of started it all (the payback at Martinsville). On the one hand you can say, ‘You already won two races, you’re on the next round, why were you trying to race so aggressive for the win?’ Because it’s a race win in the Cup Series. That’s why.
Would I change that? No, I’m still trying to win the race that doesn’t change. Did I dump him [Kenseth] on purpose? No, but I did try to pack some air on him a little bit and when he come to block me the third time, I said, ‘Not happenin’, brotha.’ So, am I changing my actions from what happened in Kasnas? No, I wouldn’t do any different.”
