The controversial restart to complete the Toyota Homeowners 400 over the weekend has created fairly the spark throughout NASCAR, with a ton of drivers providing their opinion on the possibly too-early restart by eventual race-winner Denny Hamlin.
Joey Logano, who was just a few vehicles again and completed in second after the restart, was fairly opinionated on NASCAR’s lack of evaluate on the restart.
“I’ll let you know one factor, if I get black-flagged for doing that subsequent week I’m going to be pi–ed,” Logano mentioned on Sirius XM radio.
As a lot as something, Joey Logano questioned the method for the evaluate, which by no means appeared to happen till it had grow to be a controversial matter post-race.
“As a result of why was it OK final week?” Logano mentioned. “I don’t suppose this was even a query. The restart was not even below evaluate till (Martin) Truex mentioned he jumped the beginning. Proper, like that was it. It wasn’t even a thought in NASCAR’s thoughts, I don’t suppose.
“As a result of if there’s something, they’re very fast to say, ‘The restart’s below evaluate.’ I imply they’d say that whereas they had been taking place the again stretch, proper after they took the inexperienced. That’s sometimes the way it goes. And this one, not a phrase was mentioned till well beyond the tip of the race once we’re doing post-race interviews. And now it’s a scorching matter.”
Joey Logano broke down one different comparable state of affairs he might recall that concerned a restart below evaluate, and it performed out somewhat in a different way than Sunday’s at Richmond.
Whereas Hamlin appeared to leap somewhat early and speed up earlier than reaching the restart zone, the situation Logano recalled concerned virtually the other: a driver slowing all the way down to keep away from being penalized for a too-early restart.
“There was one below evaluate within the Xfinity Race, proper, after I was up within the FOX sales space?” Logano recalled. “With Aric Almirola and who was on the surface of him there? I believe perhaps it was Chandler (Smith). I don’t keep in mind precisely who it was. However so his protection, Aric’s protection to the roll and him attempting to time the restart was to let him get all the best way previous him after which go. So go late within the field, that was Eric’s protection to that.
“And what that appears like, to everyone, it seems like Aric Almirola brake-checked the sphere. No he didn’t. He maintained the warning automotive velocity or his velocity he was getting into the restart zone at and since everybody thought they had been going as a result of they had been timing it it seems like he brake-checks the sphere, and so they put that below evaluate. There was nothing to evaluate there, for my part, and so they did evaluate it and so they realized nothing there. They let it go.”
Joey Logano’s conclusion?
“Gosh, if that’s below evaluate, the final restart of the Cup Race must be below evaluate,” he mentioned.
