Corey LaJoie and Skip Flores provide a startling perspective on Kyle Larson and Daniel Suarez’s wreck.

Kyle Larson’s run in this past Sunday’s race at Iowa was wrecked on Lap 219 when Daniel Suarez collided with his left rear coming off Turn 4 and drove him into the wall.

Larson appeared to have the fastest vehicle in the race up until that time. Of course, he finished with a season-low P34. Corey LaJoie and Skip Flores, a tire changer for Ryan Blaney’s No. 12 crew, talked about the accident on “Stacking Pennies” this week.

LaJoie shared his thoughts, saying it appeared Suarez got a bit loose going out of the old asphalt before Larson made it three-wide.

“So, the 99 [Suarez], right after he gets off the old asphalt, he’s got a bunch of wheel because he’s in the gas like turn baby turn, turn, turn, turn. And when the 5 [Larson] is that tight on his door, that’s gonna induce a tight. So, when he hits that old asphalt, he loses the nose and gets into the left rear of the 5.”

Kyle Larson turning the page to New Hampshire

Flores, meanwhile, believes there may have been a point earlier in the race where Larson used Suarez up. And when Larson made it tight coming off Turn 4, Suarez wasn’t gonna budge.

“The other thing that I think that happened that no one’s talking about, and it might not be directly correlated to this, but I do believe that the 5 used the 99 up when he was coming back through the field earlier,” Flores said. “… I don’t think that he did it on purpose. But the 5 and don’t quote me on this, but I believe he got under the 99 into [Turn] 1 and just kind of did the merge. Like took his lane away.

“Which Kyle was coming through the field, they pitted off-sequence and thought they had a flat tire, and they didn’t. He ripped back through the field almost to the lead during that cycle. But when you get used up by somebody and they put you three-wide, you’re not gonna give him an inch.”

Whatever the case, Larson missed an opportunity to win back-to-back races and will now turn his attention to this Sunday at New Hampshire. While he’s never taken the checkered flag in Loudon, he has been close multiple times. He finished P3 last season and has tallied four other top-three finishes at the track. Look for him to once again be in the mix this time around.