Joey Logano won Sunday night's NASCAR All-Star Race, but Ricky Stenhouse Jr. and Kyle Busch stole the show with their post-race fight.
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Busch ended Stenhouse's night on the second lap of the race, sending him into the wall as cars were fighting for position in the early going.
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A clearly furious Stenhouse climbed into Busch's pit box to confront his crew and told reporters he would "handle it" after the race. When reporters asked Stenhouse what he meant, Stenhouse replied, "you can just watch afterwards."
Because of the old-school design of the track, Stenhouse wasn't able to leave and had to stew on crashing just minutes into the race. Once the two drivers were face-to-face, all bets were off.
After the fight, Stenhouse said he would make sure to wreck Busch at Charlotte Motor Speedway for the Coca-Cola 600, to which Busch replied, "Bring it, I don't give a f***."
Busch defended his actions on the track.
"I’m tired of getting run over by everybody," Busch said as he was walked off. "But that’s what everybody does. Everybody runs over everybody to pass everybody."
In his post-fight interview, Stenhouse told reporters that the frustration between the two drivers didn't start with the wreck on Sunday.
"Kyle and I have always raced each other really hard, back to the Nationwide series when we were competing for wins week in and week out," Stenhouse said. "We never had any issues, and then I wrecked him one time at Daytona, and he’s been kind of bad-mouthing me ever since then.”
“Yeah, just definitely built-up frustration with how he runs his mouth all the time about myself," he added. "But I know he’s frustrated because he doesn’t run near as good as he used to, and I understand that."
