Sunday night was NASCAR's All-Star Race, held for the second season in a row at historic North Wilkesboro Speedway. Joey Logano won the non-points event in dominant fashion, started from pole position and led all but one of the race's 200 laps. It's the most laps any driver has led in NASCAR's All-Star Race.
But that is not the topic of conversation this Monday. Instead, the main characters are Kyle Busch and Ricky Stenhouse Jr., who traded paint in the early stages of the race, and some fists in a post-race fracas.
It all started on just the second lap of the race, when Stenhouse got to the inside of Busch. With Michael McDowell on the inside of Stenhouse, the cars were three wide on the tight, short North Wilkesboro Speedway, and Busch ended up squeezed into the wall for a second. As the broadcast team on FOX Sports noted that Busch was "not going to be happy about that," it did not take long for the driver to strike back: Busch nudges Stenhouse in the left-rear quarter panel, sending Stenhouse off the line, and.
.. Mark Schofield.