Joey Logano received the opening stage at Martinsville Speedway and went on to earn his first top-ten end of the yr, however he nonetheless leaves the Virginia quick monitor pissed off.
The three-time and reigning Cup Collection champion was battling onerous on a late-race restart when Ross Chastain minimize down in entrance of Logano, in an effort to get again to the underside lane on a restart. He did clear the No. 22 Staff Penske Ford, however Logano then acquired into the again of Chastain to point out his displeasure with the transfer.
On the next restart, Chastain was in the same place once more with Chase Briscoe. He once more discovered a small gap to get to the underside and Briscoe — like Logano — determined to ship a message along with his entrance bumper. Nonetheless, all Briscoe ended up doing was working over the curb and taking pictures up the monitor … immediately into the aspect of Logano’s automobile.
Logano went spinning, forcing the ultimate warning flag of the race. Impressively, he drove all the way in which again as much as eighth within the closing working order, however that did little to ease his disappointment.
“I am sick of paying the value”
Joey Logano, Staff Penske Ford
Photograph by: Logan Riely / Getty Pictures
“It looks like it’s been a typical 2025,” stated Logano. “A reasonably strong automobile after which one thing occurs … We went for that stage win early within the race in Stage 1. I believe that was the fitting name. We acquired ourselves again within the ballpark there and the lengthy haul was fairly good. It was simply type of like a decide them off one by one type of factor after which Ross simply sticking it in a good spot. He did it to me on the restart earlier than.
“I can’t even blame Briscoe for delivery him. I believe he acquired himself in a bind attempting to ship him. [Chastain] simply races like a jackass each week and I preserve paying the value. I’m sick of paying the value.”
Each Chastain and Logano have a status for being two of essentially the most aggressive drivers within the Cup Collection, however a run-in between them has been a uncommon incidence. Requested in a post-race media scrum if he had something he needed to say to the motive force of the No. 1 Trackhouse Racing Chevrolet, Logano smiled as he replied: “Not for the time being. Nothing good.”
Logano wasn’t the one driver aggravated after 400 laps of quick monitor racing. Tyler Reddick and Ty Gibbs engaged in a post-race dialog following an on-track incident, as did Chris Buescher and Noah Gragson.
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