DAYTONA BEACH — interrupted the query.
“Did individuals make dumb strikes and stuff,” a reporter requested in the course of the post- press convention, “or is that simply —”
“Joey did,” Gordon stated, eliciting laughs at Daytona Worldwide Speedway.
“Yeah, that’s honest,” added.
They weren’t the one ones who felt that manner, both.
With 14 laps to go in , Joey Logano bought caught in too shut of quarters, jamming the left rear of a Ricky Stenhouse Jr. block and setting off a that collected a number of of the highest automobiles, together with , Ryan Blaney and .
“Appeared just like the quickest automobile bought in a rush to get to the wreck,” stated Busch, whose winless streak in Nice American Races hit 20. “Logano was by far the quickest automobile as we speak. Noticed a variety of laps led, and he may about do something. The Penske automobiles are very sturdy.
“We nonetheless bought 20 laps to go, and he is attempting to undergo the center and make a gap that is not there and simply created chaos … You gotta understand how broad your racecar is to discover a gap that it’ll slot in. And he clearly does not know that.”
Busch completed thirty fourth.
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Logano led 43 laps, second-most behind Austin Cindric’s 59. He gained Stage 1. However as a result of late chaos, he positioned thirty fifth.
Right here’s how he defined himself.
“47 had a little bit of an indecisive second, and that’s what will get you in hassle at occasions, is while you’ve type of bought to select one,” Logano stated. “I went to the second lane. It felt like I needed to get in entrance of the 47 there. I needed to get to the second automobile in my row to have an opportunity to win the race. I noticed my alternative to get down in entrance of a Ford with Noah (Gragson). I felt like we may work collectively nicely there.
“Simply appeared like I used to be there. We had a late block. I lifted. It regarded like he was going to return up. I went again in there, after which he got here again down. I began lifting once more, and at that time, the check-up is so large that every one the automobiles behind you’re simply shoving you into it. At that time, you’re simply alongside for the experience.”
And Stenhouse’s model.
“I really feel just like the holes had been fairly small he was attempting to fill,” he advised Fox Sports activities. “I bought a pair late blocks on him as we had been making our runs up via there. We had been nonetheless 10 to go. I hoped he would follow me, him and (Corey) LaJoie. We had been on the point of drive to first, second and third with nonetheless 10 to go.”
Stenhouse, the winner of the 2023 Daytona 500, slotted 18th Sunday.
averted one other Massive One on the ultimate lap, skating free via the surface and into Victory Lane. He started the final lap ninth.
“I don’t know what to do otherwise in the intervening time,” Logano stated. “It’s straightforward to say simply don’t make the transfer. However not making the transfer doesn’t win you the race.”
