Gordon holds off McMurray for Sprint Cup win

Is it right? Kenseth felt he had to do something after Logano essentially ended his championship hopes two weeks ago at Kansas.

Jeff Gordon took the lead in the Goody’s Headache Relief Shot 500 at Martinsville Speedway with 22 laps remaining Sunday and held off Jamie McMurray to claim his first NASCAR Sprint Cup Series victory of the season. It is the ninth win for Gordon at Martinsville, third among all NASCAR drivers.

“I felt like if we points raced our way into Homestead, that would help make up for it if we didn’t win”, Gordon said. “This has turned into a fairy tale year”. Yes, Gordon, whose top-5s this year – five – are fewer than the number of Logano’s wins.

“What was disappointing today was the incident that I think we’re referring to would be a driver that’s not competing for a win, in fact, was many laps down when that happened”, O’Donnell said. I really thought we were going to have a shot for the win before they got me the first time.

“It was just a complete coward move, especially for a championship race vehicle driver and race team”, said Logano of Kenseth. Here, he was a complete coward…. Kenseth’s dumping of Logano, while celebrated by fans, could soil NASCAR’s reputation and call into question its credibility as it determines whether to further sanction Kenseth. “It wasn’t given to us, I can tell you that”. That reaction from my team, and to have my family come up… this is unbelievable.

NASCAR officials did not announce whether there would be any additional penalties against Kenseth.

I’m writing it because what Kenseth did was so blatant, so potentially unsafe for Logano and the rest of the drivers who somehow missed the aftermath of the crash, that I can’t agree that a monetary punishment is appropriate, not for a driver who has won $112,685,093 in Sprint Cup prize money alone. I much rather be out there racing for a win than to be in that spot.

Calgary’s Cameron Hayley posted the best result of his rookie NASCAR Camping World Truck Series season at Martinsville Speedway with a third-place finish in the Kroger 200 on Saturday driving the No. 13 ThorSport Racing Toyota Tundra. We were still leading the race.

We never make an announcement on a Sunday night. “I am so proud of this team”. Our restarts were pretty good.

Formula One: Nico Rosberg won the first Mexican Grand Prix since 1992 for his fourth victory this season, denying Mercedes teammate Lewis Hamilton in his bid to tie the Formula One record of 13 victories in a season.

“It’s practice and not racing, and it’s a big difference”, he said. This after Honda boss Yasuhisa Arai said he is still in talks to get such a deal done with Red Bull.

There is only one option for NASCAR in dealing with the Matt Kenseth-Joey Logano incident Sunday at Martinsville Speedway, where Kenseth, multiple laps down, took aim at leader Logano, spun him, then drove him hard into the wall. To be fair, Logano had a race to win, too, but it’s doubtful he needed to wreck Kenseth’s clearly inferior machine. Gordon, Kyle Busch, Martin Truex Jr. and Kevin Harvick all finished in the top 10 to put themselves in good position to advance, while Joey Logano had a rough day.