Jeff Gordon, a three-time all-star winner, led the field for the start of the fourth and final segment that featured five lead changes in the last 10 laps.
Kyle Busch squeezed through the middle of Kenseth and brother Kurt Busch and then moved to the outside of Gordon to take the lead with nine laps to go.
Gordon reclaimed the position on the following lap, but Kyle Busch got a push from Ryan Newman to move to the outside of Gordon. Kansas City Star
Gordon wasn’t about to give way to Kyle Busch. He stayed inside and challenged aggressively. Before Gordon knew what happened, he was three-wide with Busch next to him and Ryan Newman on the outside wall.
Gordon and Kyle Busch made contact, and the contact sent Gordon swerving across the track. His car caught fire and crashed into the wall, releasing fluid all over the track.
“That’s the All-Star event,” Gordon said, after being evaluated and released from the infield care center. “That’s just a bunch of guys racing really, really hard. I heard ‘three-wide’ at the last second.
“I got a bad restart and Kyle obviously got one heck of a restart. I don’t know where he came from. . . . Thankfully nobody got into me. It was a great night for us up until that point.” Los Angeles Times
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