Joey Logano Reveals Terrifying Moment at Track Before Pocono

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Joey Logano Reveals Terrifying Moment at Track Before Pocono originally appeared on Athlon Sports.
Joey Logano finished 16th on Sunday at Pocono and The Tricky Triangle. Through 17 races, the three-time Cup Series champion has recorded 11 top 20s, four of them inside the top 10, including his win at Texas Motor Speedway in early May.
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On Tuesday, the Team Penske driver made his regular weekly appearance on SiriusXM NASCAR Radio for his "Behind the Wheel" segment. He recapped his mediocre weekend in Pennsylvania and also brought up how he was invited by RTR Vehicles to attend their Formula Drift event at the Raceway Park in New Jersey — his first time being hosted at such an event.
"And speaking of car culture, that's a cool car culture that's different from what NASCAR is," the 35-year-old said. "It was fun to see because they had all other types of cars that they were drifting. The atmosphere is quite different, but fun to see."
Joey Logano during practice for NASCAR Championship race at Phoenix Raceway.Mark J. Rebilas-Imagn Images
Recalling the event, however, he revealed the horrifying moment when what he described as a tornado hit the racetrack—his first experience of this nature.
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"A tornado went through there," he said. "That was wild while I was there. A tree fell on top of one of the race cars or drift cars. I don't think they call them race cars because they're not racing. A tree fell right on the roof. Crushed it, crushed the car. It was a pretty wild event. I can't say I've been in the middle of something like that before.
"But it was like, you know, when a storm's rolling in, you're like, 'Oh, it's just a storm.' Then, all of a sudden, you see things flying through the air, and you start looking for the cow that's flying. I'm like, 'Oh boy.' The billboards were flying. Like the billboards flew onto the racetrack - all of this stuff," he described.
Understandably, he was greatly concerned about his family during the chaotic storm. "I'm sitting in this suite, and I'm like — step back from the windows, let's go to the corner over here, get the kids kind of corralled," he explained."This is no longer a safe place.
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"Then, when you walk back outside after the storm rolls through, you see trees down. And as I said, billboards were on the racetrack, and it was crazy. It was pretty wild," the Penske driver concluded.
Despite his claims of a tornado, the National Weather Service office in the area suggested that the damage was caused by dangerous straight-line winds exceeding 60 mph.
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This story was originally reported by Athlon Sports on Jun 27, 2025, where it first appeared.