Mooresville, NC – One day after having finished second in the stars race and criticizing the way Christopher Bell ran for victory, Joey Logano told NBC Sports how Bell led him “was not as bad as I thought.”
Bell and Logano lasted a large part of the last 20 laps on Sunday evening in North Wilkesboro Speedway. Logano blocked Bell and tried to remove his track while Bell worked to get out of it. Bell made a second attempt and finally moved Logano on the track and took the lead with 10 laps. Bell then won his first star race.
After the race, Logano expressed his dissatisfaction with the Bell movement.
“I did everything I could do to hold it back and he went under me and released the brake and gave me no option,” Logano told FS1. “A little just made me get into the wall, and if I could have achieved it, it went around after a move like that, I just couldn’t come back to him.”
Christopher Bell won five points races and the star race from Coca-Cola 600 from last year.
On Monday, before a ceremony of the mayor of Mooresville and the municipal council honoring the teams of Logano and Ryan Blaney for having won the last three cup titles, Logano admitted that he had a different vision of the way in which Bell ran it in these last towers.
“When I returned and I watched it, I said to myself, it was not as bad as I thought,” Logano told NBC Sports. “If he was doing this (Logano’s moving on the track) The first time he arrived, I would be like,” guy, why would you do that? “”
“But he made solid attempts to surpass me. I made it flow from top to bottom of the racetrack. So I opened the door. As at that time, I opened the door (to more aggressive races). I had to do it to try to keep my head.
“But it’s also for me, it was like, ok, well, if you are ready to do it, you should be able to move this person on the circuit. Then I should have been able to come back to him.
“I set the tone that we are going to run like assholes. It is good that he does that to me. But when you’re just pissed off, right? You are like, “he made me climb the track. Then, when I looked at him, I said to myself: “No, it’s probably justified”.
“So, I shouldn’t have said that (after the race). You’re crazy. That’s what it is. He dropped me and then moved me. Would I have done the same? Probably. Especially after someone helped me everywhere in the racetrack as I did, I would probably have done the same thing.
“I am a very bad loser. I am a painful loser. I can’t help it. Who I am, but I think that is also what makes us winners. ”