Logano 'P***ed Off' After Bell Gave Him 'No Option' In NASCAR All-Star Race
Team Penske driver Joey Logano missed out on the $1 million prize in the NASCAR All-Star Race at North Wilkesboro Speedway after seeing his lead slip away.
Logano shared his frustrations after being edged out by Christopher Bell, who went on to celebrate on Victory Lane, while speaking to the media after the race. He explained:
"I'm glad you had a blast. I'm p***ed off right now. Just dang it, we had the fastest car. The Shell-Pennzoil Mustang was so fast. I'm trying to choose my words correctly on the caution situation.
"Obviously I got bit by it, so I am the one frustrated. 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 [Bell] 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.
Joey Logano, driver of the #22 Shell Pennzoil Ford, waits on the grid prior to the NASCAR Cup Series All-Star Race at North Wilkesboro Speedway on May 18, 2025 in North Wilkesboro, North Carolina.
Joey Logano, driver of the #22 Shell Pennzoil Ford, waits on the grid prior to the NASCAR Cup Series All-Star Race at North Wilkesboro Speedway on May 18, 2025 in North Wilkesboro, North Carolina."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."
The 34-year-old added:
"Just frustrated after you lead so many laps and the car is so fast and you don't win, it hurts quite a bit. ... Yeah, I'm all about no gimmicks with the caution. I am all about that. Me and Marcus Smith aren't seeing eye to eye right now, OK? I've got to have a word with him.
"It's all you've got. I was hoping I could just fight him long enough to where the advantage would go away a little bit, but it just never did. I did as best I can blocking my butt off, but once he got under me just released the brake and gave me no option to either fence it and wreck or run up in the marbles and spin out like what happened to Heim in the Truck race. I get it.
"We're racing for a million bucks, but things carry over all the time, but it just stings. I'm upset because we had the best car. We had the best car by a long shot and we didn't win. I don't know. A lot of things are running through my mind I probably shouldn't say."
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