Joey Logano thought he had solely stirred up a bit of storm with teammate Austin Cindric when Logano went on an expletive-laden rant on his in-car radio following the second stage at Talladega Superspeedway.
Little did he know, the noise would come with baseball Corridor of Famer Chipper Jones.
Nonetheless, there’s solely one of many two he cares about, and that’s Cindric. Logano might be questioning why Jones hates him, however he can’t actually sweat that.
So what occurred on Sunday?
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Cindric pushed Bubba Wallace to the stage win. It resulted in a Logano rant (not all of the expletives are the identical phrase) to his workforce on their in-car radio:
“Method to [expletive] go. What a silly [expletive]. God. He simply gave it to him. Gave a Toyota a stage win. Method to go. That dumb[expletive]. … Put that in his freaking notes and textual content it to us.”
After successful the race, Cindric mentioned he understood Logano’s frustration.
“I felt like I type of simply bought pinched, was making an attempt to not wreck the automobiles in entrance of me, together with Joey,” Cindric mentioned. “It was a messy finish of the stage … between myself, the 21[of Josh Berry]. Joey might have most likely achieved higher. We let one slip there.
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“I can perceive his frustration with out type of seeing the entire image. These are the forms of issues that while you’re anticipating somebody to have your greatest curiosity, these are the challenges, proper? We’ve loads of conferences centered round that. I really feel prefer it requires fixed upkeep. It is not at all times fairly. The conversations aren’t at all times simple.”
Logano, talking on SiriusXM’s NASCAR channel Tuesday, mentioned that they had their dialog and moved on. He felt that the workforce guidelines weren’t adopted and that it wasn’t Cindric’s first offense.
“It was the straw that broke the camel’s again,” he informed the community. “And, yeah, I lit up fairly shortly. As a result of I care.”
However what about Jones?
After the race, Jones posted on X:
Jones later celebrated Logano’s disqualification from a fifth-place end due to a technical violation.
Logano informed SiriusXM that he wouldn’t touch upon one other athlete as a result of he doesn’t know what they’re going via.
“Has Chipper Jones ever pushed a race automobile at Talladega?” Logano requested. “That may be my first query. I’m fairly sure he hasn’t. That’s like me saying one thing about baseball.
“I do know nothing about baseball. That’s like me saying one thing that he did in baseball that was flawed. It doesn’t matter. You care about what individuals say, their opinion, when you actually know them they usually know you they usually perceive the situation and the scenario.”
Jones does know racing.
He grew up about 20 miles from Daytona Seashore and has attended a number of races through the years. He is aware of sports activities and definitely has an opinion on phrases having penalties.
Logano is a likable man outdoors the race automobile. Nonetheless, he admits he’s a special particular person contained in the race automobile, and he’s not the one driver who appears to have a special persona as soon as the helmet goes on. Some individuals don’t thoughts that however some really feel that Logano goes over the road.
The final massive controversy for Logano was ripping Austin Dillon after the 2024 Richmond race. And if I needed to guess, Jones most likely sided with Dillon. Or on the very least felt the essential feedback from Logano weren’t warranted. However that’s a complete guess.
Jones, although, definitely didn’t say something that different followers who dislike Logano haven’t mentioned up to now. And Logano admitted he might have toned it down and saved himself a bit of little bit of controversy, however the conversations with Cindric had been going to occur regardless.
So how does Logano transfer on?
Straightforward. He’s in his seventeenth yr of Cup racing. This gained’t faze him one bit. It can price him some followers however that gained’t stress him out. What’s stressing him out is being eleventh within the standings and nonetheless searching for his first prime 5 this yr.
Bob Pockrass covers NASCAR and INDYCAR for FOX Sports activities. He has spent a long time protecting motorsports, together with over 30 Daytona 500s, with stints at ESPN, Sporting Information, NASCAR Scene journal and The (Daytona Seashore) Information-Journal. Comply with him on Twitter @bobpockrass.
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