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Tuesday 3 November 2015

NASCAR needs ROYALS
consistency to REIGN
quell ‘Wild West’
Kansas City wins World Series title in 30 years
BY JENNA FRYER
AP AUTO RACING WRITER Member of the Kansas City Royals celebrates after Game
CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) 5 of the Major League Baseball World Series against the
-- When Matt Kenseth New York Mets Monday, Nov. 2, 2015, in New York. The
steered Joey Logano into Royals won 7-2 to win the series.
the wall, the crowd roared
its approval as a veteran Associated Press
driver delivered old-school Page 19
payback. The thunderous
ovation continued at ev-
ery replay. This is NASCAR’s
version of the “wild West,”
as one driver put it, and
it is riddled with inconsis-
tencies. Three races ago,
Joey Logano wrecked
Matt Kenseth, ending his
title hopes, and NASCAR
chalked it up as “quintes-
sential” racing. Then de-
fending champion Kevin
Harvick sparked a wreck
at Talladega that kept his
repeat bid alive. NASCAR
shrugged it off, saying it
couldn’t find any evidence
Harvick meant to do it.
On Sunday, Kenseth deliv-
ered a serious blow to Lo-
gano’s run toward a cham-
pionship by pile-driving him
into the wall at Martinsville.
NASCAR officials? They will
probably punish Kenseth
harshly- and that puts them
on a very slippery slope.
It was NASCAR that ush-
ered in this “Boys, have
at it” era, and it was NAS-
CAR that didn’t park Jeff
Gordon in 2012 when
he deliberately wrecked
championship contender
Clint Bowyer. With Logano
now last in the eight-driver
Chase field with two races
remaining to qualify for the
finale, why should it be any
different for Kenseth?
“What Matt Kenseth did
was so far beyond the
‘Boys, have at it’ excuse
that it doesn’t belong in the
same conversation,” Fox
analyst Larry McReynolds
said Monday. “If NASCAR
doesn’t drop the hammer
hard on him, shame on
them.”

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