Kenseth, Stewart face off

Kenseth and Stewart collided on lap 108 of the 500-mile race, when Stewart sideswiped Kenseth's Ford Fusion on the back straight.

Kenseth went onto the infield before hitting the Turn 3 wall hard, incredibly missing everybody.

Stewart was penalised by NASCAR for aggressive driving, a rule Stewart had helped introduce after telling the media that someone would be killed at Daytona if driving standards did not improve.

The move followed an earlier incident between the pair.

"Tony took me out intentionally," Kenseth said. "There's no two ways about that. He was mad because earlier in the race when I passed him he got loose, which I didn't think I did anything wrong.

"I thought I left him plenty of room. That's the same way he raced. I actually learned that from him racing here close to people, so he wrecked me intentionally and got put to the end of the longest line.

"I don't think that's too big of a penalty at a drafting track, but that's just the way it is. I'm just really disappointed. Tony went out and said all that stuff earlier in the week. If he's worried about people's lives and everything, and then he's gonna wreck you on purpose at 190 mph, I wasn't too happy with that."

Stewart said he was still was angry with Kenseth for the earlier incident.

"Matt didn't think anything when he got me sideways over in Turn 2," Stewart said. "He should have thought about that first. But I got penalised but they didn't penalise him for getting me sideways.

"He should have been smart enough to know not to be tucking down our doors in the first 20 laps of a 200-lap race at Daytona. He has no room to complain. He started the whole thing and I finished it.

"He thinks I just ran over him. I thought I was clear and just moving down in front of him. He's screaming about it like he always does. Never mind the fact that he had me sideways in Turn 2. It's just amazing. Guys want to race a certain way then when something happens to them, they're the first ones to point fingers somewhere else.

"Matt's a top notch guy. I'm just tired to listening to him complain when something doesn't go his way, especially after he had me sideways going into [Turn] 2."