Daytona Beach – Jeff Gordon interrupted the question.
“Did people have made stupid movements and stuff,” asked a journalist at the post-Daytona 500 press conference, “or is it right-“
“Joey did it,” said Gordon, causing laughter at Daytona International Speedway.
“Yeah, that’s right,” added William Byron.
They were not the only ones to feel this either.
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With 14 laps to do when opening the NASCAR CUP series on Sunday, Joey Logano was stuck too close to the neighborhoods, by crushing the left back of a Ricky Stenhouse Jr. block and by triggering a big accident that collected Several of the best cars, including Kyle Busch, Ryan Blaney and Chase Elliott.
“It looks like the fastest car rushed to go to the wreckage,” said Busch, whose sequence without victory in major American races has reached 20 years. “Logano was by far the fastest car today. I saw a lot of laps, and he could do anything. Penske cars are very strong.
“We still have 20 laps to do, and he tries to go to the middle and make a hole that is not there and create chaos … You must know how width your racing car is to find a hole in which he will integrate. And he obviously doesn’t know it.
Busch finished 34th.
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Logano led 43 laps, the second plus behind Austin Cindric 59. He won stage 1. But due to the late chaos, he ranked 35th.
Here’s how he explained.
“47 had an undecided moment, and that’s what sometimes causes you trouble, it’s when you have to choose one,” said Logano. “I went to the second way. I felt like I had to get there in front of the 47 there. I had to go to the second car of my row to have a chance to win the race. I saw my opportunity to descend in front of a Ford with Noah (Gragson). I felt like we could work well there.
“It just seemed that I was there. We had a late block. I raised. It seemed to go up. I returned there, then he returned. I started to lift again, and at that time, the record is so big that all the cars behind you simply push you. At this point, you are just for the trip.
And the version of Stenhouse.
“I have the impression that the holes were quite small that he was trying to fill,,” he told Fox Sports. “I had some late blocks on him while we were shopping through there. We were still 10 years old. I hoped he would stay with me, Corey) Lajoie. We were preparing to lead to the first, the second and the third with another 10 to go. »»
Stenhouse, the winner of 2023 Daytona 500, granted the 18th Sunday.
Byron avoided another big on the last round, gaping freely through the outside and in the victory path. He started the last ninth round.
“I don’t know what to do differently at the moment,” said Logano. “It’s easy to say, don’t take precedence. But not to do so don’t win your race. “”
This article originally appeared in Daytona Beach’s Journal: Daytona 500: Joey Logano makes criticism from Kyle Busch for wreckage
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