Treacherous Texas bites Brad Keselowski, Bubba Wallace and more as Joey Logano prevails

Bob Pockrass

FOX Motorsports Insider

FORT WORTH, Texas — Brad Keselowski, Bubba Wallace, Michael McDowell and Kyle Busch are veteran NASCAR racers who all lost control of their race cars on Sunday at Texas Motor Speedway.

The track certainly has its challenges, with different widths and banking in Turns 1 and 2 and then in Turns 3 and 4. This means drivers and teams must choose which set of turns to maximize speed. A bump between Turns 3 and 4 adds to the sketchiness of the track.

So it shouldn’t be much of a surprise that another veteran, three-time Cup champion Joey Logano, prevailed in the chaotic race.

There were 12 cautions throughout the race, where, in order to maximize downforce, teams tried to get the cars as low to the ground as possible. But hitting the bump can force the bottom of the car to scrape the pavement, causing the driver to lose control.