NASCAR Insider convinced Corey LaJoie would not be penalized despite ending Kyle Busch's race at Pocono: "I think it was a miscalculation"

Kyle Busch's playoff hopes took another blow during the latest race at Pocono Raceway. A restart incident with Corey LaJoie sent him spinning, marking his fifth DNF in the last seven races.

LaJoie's actions on the track enraged several fans, who took to social media to express their anger at the Spire Motorsports driver. However, NASCAR insider Jordan Bianchi has a different opinion.

Speaking on the Teardown Podcast following the Pocono race, Bianchi clarified why it was a racing incident and why LaJoie might get away without a penalty for his incident with Busch. He further explained why this incident was different from Carson Hocevar wrecking Harrison Burton a few weeks ago.

"There's enough shadow of doubt here on whether it was malicious or deliberate. Was it a very aggressive move? Yes, on restarts though, you are very aggressive. We see it all the time where drivers will fan out, somebody throws a block, and the other guy who got blocked will go lower on the track and try to go below him. That's what happened here," Bianchi said. [35:30]

Bianchi said he'd give LaJoie the benefit of the doubt because, in his opinion, he didn't intentionally wreck Busch. To Bianchi, LaJoie's actions were more on the line of aggressive driving and giving Busch "a little bit of a shove" while he was at it.

"I don't think it was a deliberate attempt to wreck him. I think it was a miscalculation. I think he made a mistake, and the consequences unfortunately knocked out four, five, six guys," Bianchi added.

Bianchi, the co-host of the Teardown Podcast, claimed that the LaJoie-Busch incident was nowhere close to the Hocevar-Burton incident from a few weeks ago, where a driver deliberately hooked the other to crash him.

For Bianchi, the incident in question was more of a racing incident, one which ended up looking "really bad" because of the circumstances during which it happened.

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Corey LaJoie explains how he wrecked out Kyle Busch

Speaking after the race, Corey LaJoie shared his version of events which led to Kyle Busch wrecking out of the race. The Spire Motorsports driver said that the restarts at Pocono are crazy, and if a driver has any momentum, he has to take it and go to the bottom "to stake your ground."

LaJoie claimed he got a big push from AJ Allmendinger, which made it four wide as he went to the left rear of the #8. Busch blocked the move from LaJoie, who stayed straight despite the block. LaJoie further explained that he expected their bumpers to line up, allowing him to push Busch forward as he took a lane.

However, Busch blocked again while LaJoie claimed he had "more position on him," which ultimately spun out the RCR driver.

“Hate it; took out him and some other guys, but that’s just what you have to do. You have to take momentum when you have it because if you don’t, the guy behind you is going to put you in a worse spot than you’re going to put the guy in front of you. That’s just how the racing is," LaJoie described as per Racer.