NASCAR to review Corey LaJoie, Kyle Busch Pocono wreck: ‘It got some folks attention’

Brad Moran, the NASCAR Cup Series managing director shared some news on the wreck involving Corey LaJoie and Kyle Busch. On SiriusXM NASCAR Radio, Moran said “It got some folks attention,” and NASCAR will look at the footage, audio and SMT, per Kelly Crandall of Racer.

LaJoie spun Busch going into Turn 1 at Pocono Raceway on Sunday with 40 laps to go. After a restart, Busch blocked LaJoie to the left down the straightway, which led to LaJoie hitting Busch in the left rear. Busch’s car went down onto the apron before returning to the track and collected Ricky Stenhouse Jr., Ryan Preece, Harrison Burton and AJ Allmendinger.

After the race, LaJoie spoke to NASCAR.com about the wreck. “You’ve got to take the run,” he said, per Racer. “I’m not the guy that wants to wreck anybody but I think if Kyle blocks only once, then we both go around the corner and live to fight another day. But that second block that he thought he had covered and he didn’t, was what did him and did a couple of other guys in.”

Corey LaJoie shares more on wreck with Kyle Busch

LaJoie went on to say that the wreck was an unfortunate situation. “Restarts are so crazy there,” LaJoie said. “If you have any momentum, you have to take it and go to the bottom to stake your ground. I got a big push from [Allmendinger] and it was like four wide, and I went to the left rear of [Busch], and he blocked it once and I stayed straight. I was anticipating our bumpers lining up and then pushing him forward and him taking a lane. But he blocked again when I had more position on him, and [I] spun him out.

“Hate it; took out him and some other guys, but that’s just what you have to do. You have to take momentum when you have it because if you don’t, the guy behind you is going to put you in a worse spot than you’re going to put the guy in front of you. That’s just how the racing is. You have to be super aggressive on restarts and sometimes you’re the windshield and sometimes you’re the bug.”

LaJoie earned a P19 finish at Pocono, and it’s his sixth top-20 finish of the year. Busch did not finish the race and now has five DNFs this season.