Joey Logano found the reaction of fans cheering after his wreck Sunday,”disgusting.”
Meeting with the press today at Texas Motor Speedway, the driver of the No. 22 Team Penske Ford spoke on the previous week’s incident with Matt Kenseth that occurred with 47 laps remaining in the Goody’s Headache Relief Shot 500 at Martinsville Speedway. The reaction of the fans in the stands was overwhelmingly cheering that he was taken out.
“Was I surprised to see the fans reactions? Yes, I was,’’ Logano said. “I was disgusted by it.’’
Logano said that he will “look at the silver lining on this one.’’
“There were more No. 22 T-shirts and Joey Logano T-shirts and hats walking around when I was walking out of Martinsville, I noticed that,” Logano said. “There were more fans rooting for me now than ever before. That is pretty cool. Instead of listening to the critics and fans that may not like me, I am going to look at the silver lining and know that I have more fans than I ever had before and I appreciate every one of them. They are very good people. I feel like they are not the ones throwing things on the race track. I think they are stand up people and I appreciate having them wearing my T-shirt. That is something I want to have my name involved with, with people like that, and I appreciate having a lot of support on my side.’’
When Logano was asked if he thinks this punishment will change the way guys react when they are mad at each other, he said, “I think it will. I think it will for certain drivers and what you would do in those situations. I can’t speak for everyone in our sport, you know what I mean? I just worry about what I am as a race car driver, what our team is as a race team and I worry about that and how I would handle situations and knowing the consequences of it.’’
Kenseth, the driver of the No. 20 Joe Gibbs Racing (JGR) Toyota was suspended for two races by NASCAR on Tuesday. Kenseth lost his two appeals on Thursday. While JGR has not said who will drive the car at Phoenix, Erik Jones will drive it in this weekend’s AAA Texas 500 in addition to running in Friday’s WinStar World Casino 350 Camping World Truck Series race and Saturday afternoon’s O’Reilly Auto Parts Challenge XFINITY Series race.
