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CUP: Logano, Harvick Square Off Again
Joey Logano and Kevin Harvick were sent to the NASCAR hauler for late contact at Pocono...
Joey Logano hits the wall after contact with Kevin Harvick at Pocono Raceway. (Photo: Getty Images)
Kevin Harvick and Joey Logano ended up in the NASCAR hauler following late-race contact and an angry confrontation on pit road after Sunday’s Gillette Fusion ProGlide 500 at Pocono Raceway.
LINK> UNOFFICIAL RESULTS: GILLETTE FUSION PROGLIDE 500 - POCONO
PDF> UNOFFICIAL DRIVER POINTS: GILLETTE FUSION PROGLIDE 500 - POCONO
The two were racing for position on Lap 199 of what was scheduled to be a 200-lap race when Harvick’s No. 29 Richard Childress Racing Chevrolet made contact with Logano in Turn 3, sending the No. 20 Joe Gibbs Racing Toyota around and bringing out a caution to set up a green-white-checkered finish.
Harvick went on to finish fourth, while Logano was 13th in the final rundown.
After the race, Logano pulled down onto pit road and tried to confront Harvick. Logano’s father, Tom, who had his NASCAR annual credential suspended last year for confronting Greg Biffle on pit road after a race, told his son to “Go get him.”
Harvick’s crew interceded between the drivers, but each had harsh words for the other after the race.
“It’s just racing,” Harvick said. “I got in there and thought I held a straight line and he wound up coming down. So I hate that it happened and we’ll just go on and keep at it.”
Asked if he talked to Logano about the incident, Harvick said, “You can’t talk to him, he’s 20 (years old).”
Logano had some unkind words of his own.
“He let me go in the middle of the straightaway and decided to dump me in the next turn,” Logano said. “I don’t know what the deal is with me, but it’s probably not his fault. His wife wears the firesuit in the family and tells him what to do.”
The two had a similar incident earlier this season at Bristol Motor Speedway, when Harvick dumped Logano racing for fifth place on the final lap.
“He kept chopping down on me … and it just worked out the way it did,” Harvick told SceneDaily.com after the Bristol race. “I don’t feel like he gave me any room.”
“I don’t understand that at all,” Logano said after the Bristol race. “It was for fifth place, so I don’t know what he was doing. It wasn’t for the win. We ran together clean for almost the whole race and then he dumps me on the last lap. I don’t understand what he was thinking.”
LINK> UNOFFICIAL RESULTS: GILLETTE FUSION PROGLIDE 500 - POCONO
PDF> UNOFFICIAL DRIVER POINTS: GILLETTE FUSION PROGLIDE 500 - POCONO
Tom Jensen is the Editor in Chief of SPEEDtv.com, Senior NASCAR Editor at RACER and a contributing Editor for TruckSeries.com. You can follow him online at twitter.com/tomjensen100 and e-mail him at Jensen is the author of “Cheating: The Bad Things Good NASCAR Nextel Cup Racers Do In Pursuit of Speed,” and has appeared on numerous television and radio shows. Jensen is the past President of the National Motorsports Press Association and an NMPA Writer of the Year.
LINK> UNOFFICIAL RESULTS: GILLETTE FUSION PROGLIDE 500 - POCONO
PDF> UNOFFICIAL DRIVER POINTS: GILLETTE FUSION PROGLIDE 500 - POCONO
The two were racing for position on Lap 199 of what was scheduled to be a 200-lap race when Harvick’s No. 29 Richard Childress Racing Chevrolet made contact with Logano in Turn 3, sending the No. 20 Joe Gibbs Racing Toyota around and bringing out a caution to set up a green-white-checkered finish.
Harvick went on to finish fourth, while Logano was 13th in the final rundown.
After the race, Logano pulled down onto pit road and tried to confront Harvick. Logano’s father, Tom, who had his NASCAR annual credential suspended last year for confronting Greg Biffle on pit road after a race, told his son to “Go get him.”
Harvick’s crew interceded between the drivers, but each had harsh words for the other after the race.
“It’s just racing,” Harvick said. “I got in there and thought I held a straight line and he wound up coming down. So I hate that it happened and we’ll just go on and keep at it.”
Asked if he talked to Logano about the incident, Harvick said, “You can’t talk to him, he’s 20 (years old).”
Logano had some unkind words of his own.
“He let me go in the middle of the straightaway and decided to dump me in the next turn,” Logano said. “I don’t know what the deal is with me, but it’s probably not his fault. His wife wears the firesuit in the family and tells him what to do.”
The two had a similar incident earlier this season at Bristol Motor Speedway, when Harvick dumped Logano racing for fifth place on the final lap.
“He kept chopping down on me … and it just worked out the way it did,” Harvick told SceneDaily.com after the Bristol race. “I don’t feel like he gave me any room.”
“I don’t understand that at all,” Logano said after the Bristol race. “It was for fifth place, so I don’t know what he was doing. It wasn’t for the win. We ran together clean for almost the whole race and then he dumps me on the last lap. I don’t understand what he was thinking.”
LINK> UNOFFICIAL RESULTS: GILLETTE FUSION PROGLIDE 500 - POCONO
PDF> UNOFFICIAL DRIVER POINTS: GILLETTE FUSION PROGLIDE 500 - POCONO
Tom Jensen is the Editor in Chief of SPEEDtv.com, Senior NASCAR Editor at RACER and a contributing Editor for TruckSeries.com. You can follow him online at twitter.com/tomjensen100 and e-mail him at Jensen is the author of “Cheating: The Bad Things Good NASCAR Nextel Cup Racers Do In Pursuit of Speed,” and has appeared on numerous television and radio shows. Jensen is the past President of the National Motorsports Press Association and an NMPA Writer of the Year.
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