Brooklyn, Mich. – Joey Logano is still emotional one week after he got the best of Austin Dillon in a two lap overtime shootout and Dillon drove through him and Denny Hamlin to win the Richmond race. Moments after Logano reached pit road and unloaded on Dillon and then did a burnout in front of his pit stall, it left Logano 50K lighter after the fine and still unrepentant on what happened.
The interview on the left (below) is very enlightening and worth watching. Joey gets into it with one reporter Jerry Jordan.
JOEY LOGANO: “It’s chicken shit. There’s no doubt about it. He is four car lengths back, not even close. Then he wrecks the 11 to go along with it. Then he’s going to go up there and thank God and praise everything with his baby. It’s a bunch of BS. It’s not even freakin’ close.“
“Dude, I get it, bump-n-run. I get it. I didn’t back up the corner at all. He came in there and just drove through me. It’s ridiculous that that’s the way we race. Unbelievable.“
“I get bump-n-runs. I do that. I would expect it. But from four car lengths back, he was never going to make the corner. Then he wrecks the other car, wrecks the 11 to go with it. What a piece of crap.”
In the media center at MIS today, while talking to me and another reporter, Logano is still visibly upset with what happened last weekend. Now, that is pure emotion. Logano said he is unchanged on what transpired by Dillon to himself and Denny Hamlin. He is sorry though for doing the burnout in Dillon’s pit box. He said that while he should not have done it, he was in control and no one was in danger of getting hurt.
Logano was asked if he was happy that a charity got his 50K fine for the pit burnout and he said he wired the money to NASCAR. He has no idea if the money reached a charity or not.
To get the entire six minute two reporter scrum in the MIS media center, click above. It really is worth watching.
