Austin Dillon may have just made himself Public Enemy No. 1 among his NASCAR peers.
Entering Sunday’s race in 32nd place with little hope of making the playoffs, a desperate Dillon bumped leader Joey Logano on the final lap and sent Logano spinning into the wall, giving Dillon his first win in two years and an automatic playoff berth.“It’s chickens–t, there’s no doubt about it,” Logano said during a post-race interview on the USA broadcast. “He’s four car-lengths back, not even close. Then he wrecks the 11 to go along with it.
“I beat him fair and square on the restart and he just pulls a chickens–t move. He’s a piece of crap,” Logano said in a separate session with reporters. “The kid, he sucks, he’s sucked his whole career and now he’s gonna be in the playoffs, and good for him, I guess.”“He’s going to be credited with the win, but obviously he’s just not going to go far,” Hamlin said. “You’ve got to pay your dues back on stuff like that. But it’s worth it, because they jump 20 positions in points.
Dillon said he was trying to move Logano’s car, but hitting Hamlin as well was more of an instant reaction. Owner Richard Childress, Dillon’s grandfather, expressed a similar sentiment. Childress was also asked about possible audio of Dillon being told to wreck another driver during the frantic finish.
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