Despite having a solid start in Pocono Raceway, emerging as the stage 1 winner, the reigning Cup Series champion, Joey Logano’s day came to a disastrous end. While the driver had a dream start, carrying speed and leading the early laps, things went for a quick toss as he spun his way out shortly into stage 2.
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With his perfect day ruined in a second, the driver vented out his frustration at the on-track safety officials. Blurting out abuse, the driver literally put on a show taking the community by surprise and causing a rift. While the driver spewed out his anger, fans quickly got to the scene, giving out their thoughts.
Joey Logano’s “get this thing up” outburst splits the fandom as the driver ends his day miserably
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Heading to this race week, Logano was most probably eyeing a decisive result as his early performance highlighted his mindset. But bad luck found the driver shortly after the restart despite winning stage 1. Following a timely pitstop, Logano found himself in the middle of the traffic when things took a sudden U-turn as he spun out of control in lap 36, coming into turn 1.
The Ford suffered front-end damages along with blown-up tires and did not fire up making the driver furious. As the safety officials rushed to the #22 car, Logano boiling over with rage vented out his frustration, spewing nonsense and literally giving them an earful.
NASCAR reporter Jeff Gluck tweeted a short clip of the driver’s in-car verbal assault. In the clip we see the driver, shaming the on-track team, saying, “M****erf***ers, get that f***ing truck here, get the truck, get the f***ing thing, get this thing up, come here, haul me in, pick it up,” seeking attention to get back in the race.
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Though the driver had enough reasons to be furious, it certainly wasn’t a class act. However, the Team Penske driver deemed the worker’s inefficiency to take him further away from a return to the race, essentially ending his and his fans’ hopes.
While the driver justified his action, saying, “I’m trying to tell them to hook it up and they kept trying to push me. We wasted a lap and a half before they tried to hook it. There’s a better way to do it,” NASCAR nation chimed in with their opinions on the driver’s outcry.
While some deemed the driver’s act, “Classless” other fans understood his emotion, saying,
“Definitely understand.”
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Another user said the obvious, “Chewing out the track workers ain’t it tho”
“Frustration, yes. But the track personnel doesn’t need to be verbally abused like that.”
As fans noted down their thoughts, fans also slammed NASCAR’s negligence of having incompetent workers on a high-speed track like Pocono,
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“It just seems like nascar gives their people no training. Like they just kinda stand around and wonder what to do.”
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