Kenseth anything but laid back

Matt Kenseth was a victim at Las Vegas Motor Speedway. It looked like he was on his way to a top-five finish in the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series race in Vegas, perhaps even a win, when Jeff Gordon clipped him and took him out of the race.
Gordon ended up crashing his car on an infield wall and Kenseth limped to a 20th-place finish.
Kenseth said Gordon was breaking a rule, laying back on the restart and creating dangerous racing conditions for the drivers behind him. And Kenseth blamed NASCAR for not enforcing that rule.
“They’ve kind of got a rule that they don’t really, to my knowledge, ever police of laying back more than a car length and Gordon is famous for laying back," said Kenseth, driver of the No. 17 Ford for Roush Fenway Racing. "He was laying back a lot, so I laid back so he wouldn’t pass me and then the 99 took off late because he saw everybody laying back."
Carl Edwards, in the No. 99 Ford for Roush Fenway Racing, won the race, his second in a row. He beat Dale Earnhardt Jr., in the No. 88 Chevrolet for Hendrick Motorsports, and Greg Biffle in the No. 16 Ford for Roush Fenway Racing.
"I got a run on the 88 and the 24 (Gordon) got a run on me and we kind of split him coming off two and then the 24 just wrecked me," Kenseth said. “We were the same as the 99, but we just got too tight at the end and I couldn’t run with him at the end when we needed to. I just got too tight.”
Kenseth had no kind words for Gordon, even though it looked like Earnhardt Jr. contributed to the collision when he spun his tires on the restart. Gordon took responsibility for causing the crash and suffered a nasty collision that ripped the radiator out of his car.
“It’s disappointing, but it all started back on the restart," Kenseth said. "Jeff is kind of famous for laying back and NASCAR has a rule that you can’t lay back more than a car length or you can be black-flagged, but it’s usually not enforced, so I saw him laying back. I knew he was gonnna get a run on me, so I laid back a little bit. Carl went late and that kind of started the chain and we were three-wide going into one. We came off two and I was up as high as I thought I could get and Jeff just came across. Whether it was on purpose or not, it just kind of wiped us out.”