CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Story by Race Chaser Online Managing Editor Jacob Seelman — Nick Laham/Getty Images North America photo —

So, there’s been a lot of people this week that have said that there’s going to be some torn-up equipment and torn-up tempers at Martinsville.

After yesterday’s Eliminator Round media day at the NASCAR Hall of Fame, you know what the drivers’ response is to that? Basically, “yeah, it’s a short track and that tends to happen — but what’s your point?”

As much as we’d like to think the drama and the blows are going to continue at Martinsville, for all intents and purposes, it appears as though the eight Chase Grid survivors are ready to just put the fisticuffs away and race like the top-level drivers they are for a shot at the Sprint Cup title.

When you consider Brad Keselowski and Matt Kenseth in that mix, you think, “Nah, there’s no way one won’t wreck the other at the half-mile in Martinsville this weekend.”

Not so fast, though. It doesn’t seem like that’s going to be the case at all.

Lindsey Czarniak, who emceed the event on Tuesday, joked that Brad Keselowski “is on the Christmas card list of every other driver in the circuit.” Even Jeff Gordon, who has no team allegiance in this fight whatsoever, says he thinks the scuffle is behind the pair.

“Who? Kenseth? He pushed (Keselowski) to a win. It’s already over,” Gordon said when asked if Kenseth might take a bumper to Keselowski this weekend after the two’s run-in at Charlotte.

Kenseth didn’t come right out and say he was burying the hatchet, but he did concede that Keselowski earned his keep over the weekend, and has in general over the 2014 season, with six wins to his credit.

“He definitely works harder than most people,” Kenseth said of the driver of the Blue Deuce.

Now, while you had the Kenseth vs. Keselowski spat from Charlotte, you also had the Joey Logano vs. Danica Patrick spat as well, when the No. 22 bumped the No. 10 and chaos ensued. After the incident, Patrick came over the radio and said it was “too bad wrecking the No. 22 wouldn’t do anything to his Chase chances”.

It would this week, however.

But, according to Logano during the media day event yesterday, he says that he spoke with Patrick — and everything is behind the pair at this point.

“I think we came to a good conclusion of what happened — that’s in the past, that’s in the mirror, and we’ll move forward,” Logano, who has won a race in both prior rounds of the Chase to date, said of the incident. “It was a racing deal. It was one of those points that we were both being very aggressive. She was going to, obviously, try to take the spot and come down across me, and I probably should have gave at that point and I didn’t. I told her, really in all honesty, I probably should have backed out in that situation,” Logano admitted.

It’s been like this for sixty years; race car drivers don’t always come out admit when a problem is over — a lot of times they just pretend it never happened and move on to the next race. Logano was the exception to that in this particular case, but it’s still the same idea. Move on, and let it go.

Why are people worrying about who’s going to wreck who instead of who’s going to win Martinsville or who’s going to surprise some people with a strong run on Sunday? Why can’t they focus on productive drama for once?

It’s over people. The drivers have (it looks like) grown up and moved on to Martinsville instead of dwelling on Charlotte.

Maybe the rest of the masses ought to follow their lead.