NASCAR Fans Recall Matt Kenseth Incident as Joey Logano Subtly Threatens William Byron Amidst Their Feud

Joey Logano gathered a lot of criticism after his actions towards the end of the race at Darlington. But what pissed most people off even more, was what the Team Penske driver said after the race as a justification for bumping William Byron out of the way to take the win.

Logano had claimed that he simply took revenge on the Hendrick driver for a dangerous move he made on him earlier in the race.

And it seems like he’s still sticking to the same reason while leaving his door open to even more criticism.

“What happened last week, happened. I got fenced, I’m staying by the same stuff I said last week, I got fenced, I retaliated and won the race. Like I said last week, that’s kinda how it works, I won’t get pushed around,” Logano said in a recent interview. “In my book, we’re back to even. Reset and go again.”

“If he wants to keep going back and forth, I’ll keep swinging. I don’t think that’s a good play for him in the long run … He can keep going. But I can promise you I’ll keep going and I’ll go bigger every time.”

NASCAR fans react to Logano’s comments

NASCAR spotters had slammed Joey Logano for his earlier comments

In a recent episode of the Door Bumper Clear podcast, spotters Freddie Kraft and Brett Griffin expressed their disapproval of Logano wrecking Byron.

“The biggest thing to me is, (he) never made an attempt to pass him. Like if you work a guy over and listen, I’m all for ‘winning at all costs’. We’ve built this system around, ‘You’ve got to win a race. You’ve got to win a race to get into playoffs.’ He’s on a 40-race winless streak or something like that? ‘Win at all costs.’ But at least make some kind of attempt,” Kraft said.

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Brett Griffin went on to describe the one thing that he was the most spot-off on, and that was Logano’s “lame-ass excuse” of, “I will not be bullied. He ran me in the fence.”

“If you’re gonna be racing like a d-bag, you gotta own it. Don’t play a victim on TV, like, ‘I had to pay him back, he was bullying me’. No. That’s not the way that played out at all,” Griffin added.

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