NASCAR Fontana 2013 Drivers’ Drama: Busch Wins, Avoids Hamlin-Logano Wreck In Finish To Be First, Stewart Confronts Logano

In our Nascar Fontana 2013 update, Denny Hamlin and Joey Logano raced side by side into the final lap, according to SportsIllustrated.com. The two bitter rivals was unwilling to give up even an inch – right up until they made contact with less than a mile to go in the race.

The end of the race was a bizarre yet possible outcome for NASCAR Fontana 2013. Hamlin ended up in the hospital, Logano in a shoving match with Tony Stewart, and Kyle Busch celebrating a victory, which all seems like an afterthought after all the fury in Fontana.

Hamlin was airlifted away from the track Sunday after his collision with Logano when doing the penultimate turn that sent him nearly head-on into the inside wall. The event and the wreck made for a spectacular finish on the fifth race of the NASCAR season.

Logano managed to finish third, despite having wrecked the outside wall and hitting Hamlin. Hamlin spun Logano last week at Bristol and sparked a bitter post-race confrontation.

Referring to the events of the last race, Logano says of Hamlin, “He probably shouldn’t have done what he did last week, so that’s what he gets.”

However, the 22-year-old Logano may have bigger worries than his sensational feud with Hamlin, whose team expects to be fine soon. Stewart got into a post-race shoving match with Logano, with the three-time champion putting out a threat to “whoop his (butt)” after Logano aggressively blocked Stewart out of a late restart.

Stewart says it’s time for Logano to learn a lesson. “He’s run his mouth long enough…He’s nothing but a little rich kid that’s never had to work in his life, so he’s going to learn what us working guys who had to work our way up (know about) how it works.”

The victor of the NASCAR Fontana 2013 events would seem like a forgotten champion after all the fiery exchange between players. He led 125 of 200 laps in his Toyota and earned his first victory of the season when he sped past Hamlin and Logano on the final turn. Dale Earnhardt, Jr. also lost out the spotlight, even though NASCAR’s most popular driver moved into the Sprint Cup Series with his second-place finish.

Nonetheless, even without Busch and Junior, NASCAR Fontana 2013’s drivers’ drama could be its own version of a Hollywood film in the making.

"I'm tired of these guys doing that stuff, especially out of a kid that's been griping about everybody else, and then he does that the next week,'' Stewart said. He was referring to Logano's complaints about other drivers' similar moves. "He sent Denny to the hospital and screwed our day up. He's talked the talk, but he hasn't walked the walk yet.''

After a fairly entertaining race highlighted by Logano’s aggressive move to block Stewart out of the final restart, the final lap of NASCAR Fontana 2013 became a spectacle pitting rivals already furious at each other about driving tactics.