Joey Logano wasn’t angry and understood why Kevin Harvick pushed him out of the groove in the final laps of the Duck Commander 500 Saturday night at Texas Motor Speedway.
No hard feelings between Joey Logano, Kevin Harvick after run-in
Joey Logano understood why Kevin Harvick nearly wrecked him towards the wall and would’ve done the same thing had the roles been reversed.
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The two were contending for the win when Logano pulled down in front of Harvick, who responded by shoving Logano up the track and nearly into the wall. Logano admitted to throwing a block on Harvick, and took no issue with how Harvick responded.
“It’s the end of the race. I blocked him and he got into me,” Logano said. “I get it. Early in the race that’s not acceptable. End of the race we’re racing for the win. I’d do the same thing.”
Neither Logano nor Harvick suffered damage with both continuing on without incident. Harvick finished second to winner Jimmie Johnson. Logano, who fell to ninth, charged to fourth.
Like Logano, Harvick downplayed Saturday’s run-in citing it a byproduct of hard racing and is expected over in the latter stages.
“Yeah, it’s fine,” Harvick said. “That’s the chance you take when you block. You have to just knock them out of the way.”
Because each have a victory this season and virtually guaranteed a spot in the Chase for the Sprint Cup, Logano and Harvick are only concerned with amassing wins. That playoff security contributed to neither taking umbrage with the other.
Logano and Harvick have a history of animosity between them. The two had an altercation following a 2010 incident at Pocono Raceway with Logano quipping afterward Harvick’s wife DeLana “wore the fire suit in the family.”
More recently, Logano and Harvick tussled in February during the non-points Sprint Unlimited at Daytona International Speedway. After contact between them on the track, Harvick door-slammed Logano on the cool-down lap and confronted him on pit road. Harvick contended Logano had blocked him, something that Logano also did the season before at Talladega Superspeedway.
After moving Logano, Harvick then issued a warning to Johnson, who put a block on Harvick as they raced for the lead.
“Remind that mother****** what happened to (Logano) when he blocked me?” Harvick radioed his team.
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