john oreovicz's answer to the question was a simple "yes" and noted that many of the historic moments in nascar did "involve contact and controversy -- the '79 daytona 500, richard petty and david pearson banging their way to the line a few years earlier, or much more recently, brad keselowski's bump and run on jeff gordon at texas last year. dale earnhardt's legend was made by the style of aggressive driving that logano demonstrated on kenseth, and that's the kind of stuff that france and his marketing executives wish would happen a lot more often."