Joey Logano spun with a flat tire with 42 laps remaining in the First Data 500 at Martinsville Speedway on Sunday after contact from Denny Hamlin resulted in Logano making contact with the wall cutting down a tire. According to NASCAR Hall of Famer and NASCAR NBC analyst Dale Jarrett, Logano's spin was intentional to bring out a caution.
“There’s no doubt in my mind he spun his car intentionally and finally in a place when he realized he had a problem, and he was going to need a caution, because they were going to go a couple laps down if they had to pit under green and make this change,” Jarrett said an the latest NASCAR on NBC Podcast.
According to a twet from NASCAR reporter Nate Ryan, NASCAR officials did not review footage of Logano's spin in an attempt to determine intent.
The in-race contact between Logano and Hamlin resulted in a post-race confrontation on pit road that ultimately resulted in #22 (Logano) tire technician Dave Nichols Jr. pulling Hamlin to the ground from behind. Nichols was suspended for one race. He was the only individual penalized because of the incident.
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