Pit road has been a treacherous place for Cup Series drivers at Texas Motor Speedway. One stop in stage 2 of Sunday's race collected four different drivers and nearly took out two others.
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The entire field headed down pit road after William Byron brought out the caution with a single-car spin. The majority of cars made it back onto the track without issue, but not all.
Joey Logano and Cole Custer both sustained heavy damage in a pit road incident while Kyle Larson and Chase Briscoe made decent contact. This pit road chaos even ended Logano's day.
Chaos on pit road in Texas! Joey Logano is behind the wall. 👀 https://t.co/HXyTay1VaN pic.twitter.com/suNiqTyXf8
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The race-ending incident happened after Logano's team completed a two-tire stop. The three-time champion exited the pit stall and then began moving down pit road while navigating around other drivers. Custer then stopped directly in front of him.
Replay later showed that Custer had checked up to let Ty Gibbs exit the pit stall directly behind his. Logano had nowhere to go, so he slammed into the rear of Custer's No. 41 Chevrolet. This destroyed the left front of Logano's No. 22 Ford, as well as the rear of the No. 41.
Custer headed to the DVP area in the garage so that the team could work on repairing the car. Logano climbed from his wrecked car and headed to the infield care center.
"He just checked up in front of me," Logano said about Custer to Fox Sports' Jamie Little. "Couldn't stop. You're looking, trying to get up out of the way, and he just stopped. There's nothing I could do. I couldn't stop in time."
The Briscoe and Larson incident happened as the No. 19 team opted for only two tires. This drastically shortened the time on Briscoe's pit stop, so he went to exit his stall right as Larson went to enter his. The No. 19 and No. 5 cars hit each other. Briscoe then reversed and exited pit road.
Both drivers said that they had damaged their cars and that they did not have steering wheels in the correct position. This indicated that they had potentially damaged the toe links. Yet, neither returned to pit road for repairs. They kept racing.
Although Kyle Larson wrecked on Lap 160 while running around the rear of the field. He slammed into the wall after he "just lost it" and significantly damaged his car.
Kyle Larson goes around late in Stage 2 at Texas. pic.twitter.com/bMz5SMzCC4
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While these four drivers collided with each other on pit road, two others narrowly avoided an incident on the same stop. As Denny Hamlin exited his pit stall, he had to check up for rookie driver Connor Zilisch. Hamlin barely avoided hitting the rear of the No. 88 Chevrolet.
