NASCAR CUP SERIES: NASCAR ALL-STAR RACE

May 18, 2025

Joey Logano

Pit Lane Interview

Q. Joey, I know second is not what you wanted, but you were at a tire deficit at the end of the race. And what a heck of a battle between you and Christopher Bell. What was a blast to watch.

JOEY LOGANO: I'm glad you had a blast. I'm pissed off right now. Just dang it, we had the fastest car. The Shell-Pennzoil Mustang was so fast. You get to -- I'm trying to choose my words correctly on the caution situation. Obviously I got bit by it, so I am the one frustrated obviously.

Gosh, I don't know. I felt like the falloff wasn't too bad as the sun went down, and yeah, six cars or so stayed out with us. Thought maybe we could hold him off but the 20 had a good enough restart, cleared too many of them too fast. I couldn't get away in time. It took me six, seven laps to get my car up and rolling again.

I did all I could do to hold him off and he got under me and released the brake and gave me no option. Kind of just ran me up into the wall, and if i could've got to him, he was going around after a move like that, I just couldn't get back to him. Just too much to try to make up with the tire deficit.

Just frustrated after you lead so many laps and the car is so fast and you don't win, it hurts quite a bit.

Q. With the caution at the end, I know you weren't a fan of that and how that came out. Maybe a point race here and no cautions like that; what do you think about that?

JOEY LOGANO: Yeah, I'm all about no gimmicks with the caution. I am all about that. I'm a little -- me and Marcus Smith aren't seeing eye to eye right now, okay? I've got to have a word with him.