When Joey Logano’s Ford Fusion spun out Kyle Busch and sent him spinning down pit road on the final lap, his rage boiled over—making Joey Logano the target. The 2017 Kobalt 400 at Las Vegas Motor Speedway wasn’t just about Martin Truex Jr.’s dominant win at that point. It was about fists, fury, and a feud that spilled onto pit road.
What followed was raw, unfiltered chaos. No script. No apologies. Just two drivers and a scuffle that etched itself into NASCAR lore.
The Day Kyle Busch and Joey Logano Threw Punches in Las Vegas
Busch and Logano battled for third three laps from the finish as Brad Keselowski’s sputtering Ford faltered ahead. Busch swerved low to block Logano on the backstretch—a split-second decision that backfired.
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Logano dove deeper into Turn 3, clipping Busch’s rear bumper. The contact sent Busch spinning onto pit road, his car crunching against the inside barrier. By the time Busch climbed out, his face was smeared with blood—and his temper was white-hot.
“I got dumped. [Logano] flat out just drove straight in the corner and wrecked me,” Busch told reporters post-fight, his forehead gashed. “That’s how Joey races, so he’s going to get it.”
Logano shrugged off the melee. “There wasn’t much talking, just a lot of swinging. I was racing hard there at the end,” he said. Crew members swarmed, dragging Busch away mid-swing. The brawl lasted seconds but fueled debates for years.
Why the 2017 NASCAR Brawl Still Haunts Las Vegas Motor Speedway
The fight wasn’t just about one race. For Busch, it was the climax of a simmering rivalry. In the ‘12 Questions’ interview in 2020 with Jeff Gluck, Busch accused Logano of morphing into a “two-faced” driver after joining Team Penske, “Then he goes over to Penske and gets Brad [Keselowski] in his head and starts to become this cocky Brad No. 2.”
“You can’t be this happy-go-lucky, laugh-all-the-time, ha-ha whatever to everyone’s face and then on the racetrack put this different act on,” Busch said, “Like who you are is who you are; you can’t be two-faced. I hate two-faced.”
Logano defended the contact as accidental, claiming that he entered the corner too low and got loose. But fans weren’t buying it, especially after Logano joked about dodging Busch’s punch with “ninja reflexes.”
The clash exposed NASCAR’s razor-thin line between competition and chaos. Eight years later, it remains a benchmark for raw driver emotion. There were no sponsorships, no PR spin, just two rivals swinging—and a sport grappling with its own identity.
For Logano and Busch, the brawl was a lesson in NASCAR’s unwritten rules: race hard but expect harder consequences. And in Vegas, what happens on pit road doesn’t stay there.