Joey Logano Opens Up on Viral Explicit Rant at Talladega

What’s Happening?

During Sunday’s Jack Link 500, Team Penske’s Joey Logano went viral for his expletive-filled rant against teammate Austin Cindric at the end of stage two. Logano has now opened up about this viral rant in a recent interview.

Logano’s Outburst

During the final lap of stage two during Sunday’s race at Talladega, Austin Cindric had a chance to push his Team Penske teammate Joey Logano through the tri-oval. However, Cindric instead lifted, leaving the No. 22 out to dry, awarding the stage win to Bubba Wallace’s Toyota.

Shortly after Logano’s second-place finish in stage two, FOX played the audio from Logano’s in-car radio, which revealed not only how angry the third champion was with his teammate.

“Way to go Austin, way to go, you dumb fuck! Way to fucking go. What a stupid shit. You just gave it to him [Wallace]. Gave a Toyota a stage win. Nice job.” — Joey Logano

This audio was at the center of attention after Cindric went on to win Sunday afternoon. Fans, media members, drivers, and even a Baseball Hall of Famer are calling out Logano for his poor sportsmanship.

Logano finally addressed the matter on Tuesday during the episode of Beyond the Wheel on SiriusXM NASCAR Radio. The Cup Series veteran opened by clarifying what teammates, be they in-house or manufacturer teammates, have to agree on prior to a race weekend.

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“We Move on”

“When you go superspeedway racing, there are different rules in place for the teams,” Logano said. “There’s the OEM rules, there’s the team rules, and you try to put these all in place to try to give your cars the best chance to win.”

Yet, in Logano’s opinion, these rules were not followed by the No. 2 when he lifted in the tri-oval. “The rules that were set in place weren’t followed,” Logano said. “That ticked me off quite a bit because I feel like I’ve always done the right thing, and I try really hard to do that. And the rule has been put in place because of things that we’ve done wrong in the past, right?”

Of course, through a race weekend, we see these “rules” get broken time and time again; maybe a teammate does give a push, and maybe a Chevrolet pits with the Toyotas. For Logano, however, Cindric’s failure to push him was “the straw that broke the camel’s back.”

“Austin and I talked about it; we gotta move forward, right? That’s what it is. So, you know, I explained my side, he understood. We move on. That’s pretty much all there is to it. There’s no sense of airing our dirty laundry and really airing out what the actual rules are ’cause that’s private information that doesn’t need to be out to everybody.” — Joey Logano

However, Logano did laugh about it and show a little regret for his semi-public outburst, saying that though this conversation needed to happen, he probably shouldn’t have hit the talk button.

“Should I have hit the button and probably spouted off so much? Probably not. Probably blew up into a little bigger situation than what it needed to, but the conversation either way needed to happen. But just more people were talking about it now.”

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