Matt Kenseth Vs Joey Logano: Revisiting The Full Story 

"He didn't just take him out, he JUNKED him." -Tony Stewart

You can tell MATT IS DEFINITELY HOLDING BACK LAUGHING.. THAT DUDE IS FIGHTING IT BADLY

I was at Martinsville when Kenseth took Logano out; it's no exaggeration to say that the entire speedway (minus the handful of Logano fans) were on our feet cheering. The more often they showed the replay on the jumbotrons, the louder we got. Still my favorite day at Martinsville. Joey had it coming because he hit Kenseth going INTO the turn at Kansas. If you're going to do a bump and run, you do it on the straights or coming OFF the turn.

The fact that it was Matt that took Joey out made it so much better. I lost my mind watching this live and still love it today. One of my top 10 moments in NASCAR in my 40+ years as a fan.

Everyone in the comments needs to remember that this was during the time the 2 and 22 were pissing everybody off almost every week. If the 20 didn’t wreck him someone else would’ve eventually

The cheers and roars were added to by the feelings of the fans that Jr was robbed at Talladega. Really, that was Harvick's fault, but denying Jr a win he had to have on review at Talladega added to Logano being the villian here.

Matt was always a calm driver. Never wouldve thought he would do it. But damn if it wasnt awesome when he did

Joey absolutely deserves what he got and honestly has deserved more recently

I'm 67. I've been a NASCAR fan since I was 15yo and this is easily one of my all time top 10 greatest moments I've seen live. If Matt gets in the Hall of Fame this moment will be almost as important in getting in as his championship. They're keeping me away from him". LOL. Joey, Matt would snap you like the twig you are. Joey, you're one of the least popular drivers in NASCAR for a reason. If you're going to drive like Dale Earnhardt Sr. then OWN it like Dale Sr. He always did and was loved for it. You don't and are hated for it. Joey is just a whining two face. He reminds me of that kid who always sucked up to parents and then sold their kids dope. A true master of the two faces.

Too this day , Matt Earned show much respect from me, for Finally showing he wasn’t a robot !! And being the Only other person to do something with the 20 other than my man Smoke !!

These 2 almost had a little dust up in 2016 at Talladega, when Joey Logano kinda forced Matt Kenseth below the double yellow line. These 2 eventually got caught up in a wreck, and Matt Kenseth went upside down. After that, Matt Kenseth pointed at Joey Logano at the infield care center telling Joey to straighten up and do better (he didn't actually say that, but I just interpret).

nascar can be mad all the want but the fans loved it & matt kenseth of all people doesn’t drive dirty or nothing not a bully or known for being aggressive so he got what he deserved 🤣

Sure doesn't seem like just 7 years ago. Amazing how each of their careers have been from then till now. Wish Kenseth had kept racing with a good team. Think he had some good races left prior to his exit from Nascar.

I find it funny how much Joey is always talking about how he wants to be raced the same way he races others, or that he just raced someone the same way they raced him. But as soon as he is blocking someone or racing them hard and they return the favor he complains about it.

Great video! Excellent context, commentary and editing

Always enjoyable to watch Sliced Bread get what is coming to him. I once upon a time thought he was a pretty good racer and seemed like a decent person. And then he went to Penske, where he went full heel. He's proven he is more than willing to take people out but can't stand it when he gets it back. It's honestly shocking 3/4 the field hasn't put Joey into the wall for how he races. I'm still waiting for Byron to line up the shot one day much like Kenseth did and que the "I'm getting bullied" speech from the loaf.

Kenseth: *creates one of the most iconic moments in Nascar history* NASCAR: “Hold on there buddy, we have to suspend you, even though we created this monster of a system.”

just subbed. keep up the good work.

Kenseth wrecking Lagano at Martinsville after repairing and returning was the reason for the damage car policy.

AWESOME moment by Kenseth and one of the last moments I enjoyed watching NASCAR.

I don't like people intentionally wreck others but that payback was what made me a Matt Kenseth fan

The suspension was BS. MK fan since 98!

Definitely on Matt Kenseth side on this one!!!!

Some weeks you're the bat...

my biggest problem wasn't with Kenseth or Logano, but Nascar. They've always let drivers police themselves. They allowed a mad Jeff Gordon a few years before in the playoffs, who wasn't on the lead lap by the way, take out and intentionally wreck Clint Bowyer. Clint was going to be going to Homestead with a chance to win the title, before Gordon paid him back. Guess how many races Gordon got suspended? NONE, ZERO. ZIP. Too many people show up to watch Jeff Gordon, not Matt Kenseth. They never should've suspended him for two races.

@13:40 Classic interview "I just ran joey over disappointing end for sure" 😂😂😂

underrated video

Hell of an interview from Matt

I also think it's important to note to younger fans that Matt Kenseth never wrecks anybody. He's literally the cleanest driver on the track so when this happened It was definitely a shock I think to most fans.

Flashforward to 2021 Daytona 500, Matt admitted to crashing Joey on purpose during the fox RU-vid live stream with Biffle and deegan. Which made me a bigger fan of his lol

"Caution comes out, and the crowd roars"

I’m here after the Bubba Wallace-Kyle Larson incident at Las Vegas.

Little known fact. Kenseth is responsible for two things. A playoff system as it was his run away title in 2003, where NASCAR decided they needed to do something. And the Damage Clock Policy. A big part of that is to keep someone from doing, what Kenseth did.

So Joey is NASCAR Cup champion again and Matt is unemployed.

And history showed itself the right way Joey Logano got destroyed in turn one by Matt the way it should have been

LOVED IT!

I instantly became a Kenneth fan!!!!

🔥🔥🔥

“Wassup prick” -Joey logano auto club 2022 talking the Kenseth

The Irony of The Matt Kenseth/Joey Logano Saga is in a way The Jeff Gordon/Clint Bowyer Saga plays a role in this Considering that Logano driving the 20 Joe Gibbs Racing Toyota with Dollar General as the sponsor was the driver wiped out in Gordon's retaliation against Bowyer at Phoenix in 2012

The architect of Jeff Gordon’s last win

You don't agree it wasn't once but twice by 2 different drivers you can't get bullied like that on the track

Best vid yet I remember this

Matt had all rights to wreck Joey and NASCAR suspended Matt for 2 races. Due to this Matt finished 15th in the points. Also Matt had 5 wins this season and looked like a championship contender.

This is a great video but how does not one remember at talledega a lap or two before kenseths flip logano shoved him below the line and flipped him off down the back stretch

So let me get this straight..if a driver has already advanced to the next round he should just not compete and let others win?

Even though I didn't see the 2015 fall Talladega race live, I think dale jr should have won it

Kenseth: Tom Logano: Jerry

Kenseth had that dawg in him

You block and you get moved that’s on you. Kenseth wrecked his career with this move. He was never a contender after this and was soon out of a ride. Joey is a two time champion since. The only cool thing about this was I got to see Jeff Gordon’s final win live in person.. in the dark. Also Martinsville got lights due to this and the damage vehicle policy became a thing. Also fun fact Danica got suspended for two races also because she wrecked David gilliland at this race.

You forgot to show the final positions of the playoffs.

Joey Logano shouldn’t have spun him, but spinning him was justified after getting walled. I mean he gets paid to win races, not let another team get away with it.

NASCAR had all the opportunity to dissolve this situation between Matt and Joey. From what I gather, that never happened. It didn't take rocket science to see they had issues ongoing and that something that eventually happened at Martinsville could have happened. They let it boil over. And, honestly, while NASCAR played it off like they were disappointed that it happened, I wouldn't be a bit surprised that they secretly wanted something like this to happen. Imagine the storyline and ratings. Well, they got the storyline, at least.

Joey Logano, the one person I hate more than danica Patrick

Justice was served. Logano had it coming.

kenseth had that coming. anybody would have dumped him for blocking that much

This was the moment that humbled Joey Logano. It was a big wakeup call for him that the immature stuff he did in the early years of his career was no longer going to fly.

Being the good guy and being wrecked twice by the same team seems like bullying. When there is bullying you need to get some respect. Kenseth always was a good guy who never wrecked others. Never mess with the good guys, because they are day and light, no shades of gray..Grip ins asphalt is the same, you have it, or you do not. Logano and his team mate made that mistake, and karma rained. But I know Logano got the message. His bad deeds took him out from the final.

always love to revisit the series of events that led to me being a matt kenseth fan. never liked logano

Kenseth didn't care what happened to him at that point. That was his last year racing. He had said earlier in the year that he didn't have a ride for the next year and wasn't really looking. NASCAR suspends him?

to quote fernando alonso, "Karma!"

Just like when Jeff Gordon dumped Bowyer lol

MATTY ICE IS THE MAN

If I was a multi-millionaire I would make it known the Cup garage that wrecking Logano would pay very well. Especially for the guys say 25 & lower in points. Foot slipped off the brake pedal stuff. Maybe sun got it their eyes? Just racing stuff happening. I'd say after about 30 wrecked cars in same season the team would have a meeting.

Joey did nothing wrong, if that dust up at Kansas was bad racing Earnhardt would have been wrecked every day, Matt was soft Joey laughs at the end, he is a 2 time cup champion

Smollett gets suspended for Homestead while Kenseth got suspended for Texas and Phoenix WTF?

He blocked his block n the attacker got spun. Oh well

6:25 I believe Kenseth would’ve actually punched Joey in the face if he lost the race to Jr.

Ya kenseth.

The 2015 season in general was the worst. Junior getting robbed of a possible win by Harvick's bullshit and Kyle Busch winning the championship even though he was injured throughout most of the season is the reasons why the 2015 season is forgettable but that's just me.

If Logano had not wrecked Kenseth at Kansas, I'm confident that he would have won his first championship that year. Logano was angry after the Martinsville wreck. You could see it in his face but if you look closely, I'm pretty sure he was wishing he could have just let it go at Kansas and raced to the end without dumping Kenseth. I think people forget that the Kansas race was very important to Kenseth's playoff survival -- hence why he raced Logano so hard -- while it was a meaningless race to Logano for the playoffs.

I believe that joey did nothing wrong

The problem people have with Lagano isn't that he wrecks people. It's he pretends like they did it to themself. (Abusive relationship driver)

22 Y/o me : Lamao fuck logano 15 Y/o me: JEFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF

Didn’t Brian France voice his approval for Logano dumping Matt in the initial incident?

Okay Joey spins Matt but holy sh*t what a fckin save

Still rent free but Matt is 100% justified. Not a question in my mind. Logano is a prick.

As a Logano fan I really felt bad when he got spun by Kenseth. NASCAR Isn’t supposed to be clean like F1, Joey Logano was just doing what it takes to win. Kenseth blocking for me atleast was a good option to spin him out. Not on Logano’s side for the brake check though.

Joey didn’t have to wreck him!

joey was right in spinning matt, but idc how intentional matt did it, if u spin someone, you gotta take it if they hit you back

Never liked Kenseth……… UNTIL THIS HAPPENED!!

Demise90 you must not know NASCAR very well. The goal in NASCAR is to WIN every race. You said in your commentary that Joey didn't need to win cause he had already won. That is their job, to win races.

Lets just be honest. Logano got what he deserved and most people enjoyed watching Kenneth take him out.

BS move by the 20 he wasn’t gonna win in Kansas either , 22 was far better at the end . 22 didn’t wreck him either , 20 car and ridiculous blocks got him turned. Martinsville to take out the leader when you’re not even in the payoffs is just hurt little boy , if I can’t win you won’t ? NASCAR failed in penalizing him big time . 22 could have won 4 in a row in the new chase format , that’s unheard of !!! 22 gets the last laugh anyways , still racing and winning championships.

13:06 Just a complete coward move: Can't AGREE more

Lmao only a legano fan could twist reality enough to make legano sound like the victim here "legano was in the right for purposefully wrecking a car racing for the win when he had nothing to gain but kenseth was in the wrong for wrecking a car racing for the win when he had nothing to lose" absolute clownery

The playoff format is effed up. NASCAR sucks and always will.

Can anyone say deja vu?

The previous comment has a potentially deadly flaw. There's no place for vigilante in nascar. Someone is going to get killed. Get even with your fists, NOT a 3,000 pound car. It's just STUPID.

Wrecking a guy is not good hard racing.

So as a Joey Logano fan I am going to call you out on saying Joey didn't need to win. Roger Penske pays Joey to win. Not win on occasion or win when you have to, just win everyday. If he goes out and lays back he is not doing his job and deserves to be fired. Also, Joey never wrecked Kenseth at Kansas, he spun him out because he blocked him. On to Talladega, yes Joey cut him off, no doubt about it but it caused no major strife so there was no issue. At Martinsville, Kenseth was out and during the race, Keselowski got loose... no team orders. Again Matt is out, so he should leave the playoffs alone. He didnt spin him out, or move him like Joey did, he wrecked him and gave him one of the hardest hits of the Gen 6 car at Martinsville. Now by the laws of NASCAR, Joey has done nothing wrong but Kenseth clearly takes him out which would result in no personal gain to his career. In Matt's defense, He is allowed to be upset that he was spun by Joey at Kansas, and wrecked by Keselowski at Martinsville but personally I believe it is only fair to wreck another driver is when you are in true contention to advance or win a race (like what Harvick tried with Busch last year at Martinsville I believe or what Joey did to MTJ in 2018. In Joey's defense, spinning Kenseth was to help him get a points cushion and as you know in these playoffs, every point matters). I am not going to try and force you to see my opinion because I don't care what you think because arguments like these are biased no matter how you try to be impartial, but in the eyes of NASCAR, one driver did nothing wrong according to the rules but one did and that resulted in a suspension. I have also realized that people are quick to jump down Joey's throat for most times defending himself. or fighting back like Darrell Waltrip said on that broadcast almost 10 years ago. At Joe Gibbs they treated him like dirt. When he moved to Penske and grew a back bone people still attacked him but got upset that he fought back. Case in point, Bristol 2013, Hamlin purposely spins Logano and later at Auto Club when Logano and Hamlin are racing hard Logano gets loose and collects Hamlin, along with some previous blocking with Tony Stewart (which is legal) and somehow Logano gets turned into the bad guy because he chose to do what Roger Penske paid him to do. Go for the win. The Kenseth debacle was also a retaliation on Logano's part because he was at least 10mph faster than Kenseth and he still chose to block which put Logano into the wall. There are even more races where Joey gets provoked first and then he retaliates and gets the blame for it. In my opinion, NASCAR needs more drivers like Logano, aggressive fast drivers who are not afraid to do what it takes to get the win because that it what they are paid to do. You want to see clean racing, go to an open wheel motorsport event like Indy or F1 but fenders and bumpers are used in NASCAR for a reason. The reason I say this is Joey himself said if a driver was to use the bumper on him, he would be upset but he understand that is how racing works. Earnhardt did all this and worse but he is still revered and nicknamed "The Intimidator" but Logano is nicknamed a child who uses daddy's money like 90 of those white men didn't get money from their fathers to put them in a race car and drive and do the same thing for their children. So yeah I don't side with Kenseth, never have and never will. If you think Joey deserved that, you are asinine.

Logano is a garden weasel

Karma’s a bitch Joey, never been a bigger blocker.

The narrator sounds very one sided on this one. 😂 why are you so mad bro. Matt did what needed to be done. That how you do it hit him where it hurts.

I wouldn't care if he was 100 laps down ! Lagano deserve it and got what he deserves. Then he needs Brad kolasksi needs his turn being the ball off the bat.

Ok dude. I can’t tell what side your on but let me say this. Joey Logano did spin Matt Kenseth at Kansas. However if you watch the clip you can tell that Matt tried to block him and ended up fencing him while doing so. He then proceeded to continue blocking (instead of maybe just being patient to let up a little bit and then try work his way back around Joey) with a slower car. I’m sorry you’ve got to be able to get tapped and not spin out (which clearly he had a problem with) The brake check incident at Talladega probably could have been avoided. I doubt Joey did it intentionally. However this is just bad timing and that’s what people forget. Martinsville was completely uncalled for. His actions in deliberately wrecking Joey Logano should have warranted a much harsher punishment than just a 2 race suspension looking at the fact that he put every other car behind him at risk. To be eliminated from the playoffs, have a basically destroyed car and go several laps down only to slam Joey Logano into the wall when he’s leading the race and probably going to win. I think people need to realize that Matt (even before this) isn’t so innocent when it comes to wrecks. He is incredible when it comes to any “bad moves” . You all need to realize that.

Matt Kenseth was known as one of the cleanest drivers on the track but Logano wasn't...lol When NASCAR suspended the wrong driver was the day NASCAR started to decine...imolol

Matt was the baby kn this fued, all his fault

8:55 how to properly pass someone you don’t like

“ he bumped me so i feel great about taking him out”