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    Joey Logano furious after Austin Dillon’s controversial ‘chickens–t’ move costs him NASCAR race

    By Post Wire Report,

    6 hours ago

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    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.

    “I hate to do that, but sometimes you just got to have it,” Dillon said.

    AUSTIN DILLON SLAMS INTO JOEY LOGANO!

    HE WINS AT RICHMOND. #NASCAR pic.twitter.com/6fCmEzG6WC

    — NASCAR on NBC (@NASCARonNBC) August 12, 2024

    Logano clearly doesn’t agree, as the two-time Cup Series champion was furious after the race.

    “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 (Denny Hamlin) to go along with it. And then he’s gonna go up there and thank God and praise everything with his baby, it’s a bunch of BS. It’s not even frickin’ close.”

    Dillon was leading before a crash led to a caution, and Logano raced into first after a restart.

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    Austin Dillon (3) bumps Joey Logano (22) during the final lap of a NASCAR race in Richmond, Va. on Aug. 11, 2024. USA Network
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    Austin Dillon (3) spins out Joey Logano (22) during the final lap of a NASCAR race in Richmond, Va. on Aug. 11, 2024. USA Network

    “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.”

    Dillon also sent Hamlin into the wall.

    “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. So I understand all that. There’s no ill will there. I get it. I just hate I was a part of it. It would have been fun if I was not one of the two guys that got taken out on the last corner.”

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    Austin Dillon (3) crosses the finish line to win the NASCAR race in Richmond on Aug. 11, 2024. Getty Images
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    Austin Dillon celebrates his NASCAR win on Aug. 11, 2024. Getty Images

    Dillon emerged from all the chaos with a victory in his No. 3 Chevrolet. That number was famously driven — often aggressively — by Dale Earnhardt. But times have changed since Earnhardt’s heyday, and Elton Sawyer, NASCAR’s senior vice president of competition, made it clear the end of this race would be looked at.

    “In my view, that’s getting really close to crossing the line,” Sawyer said.

    Actually vacating the victory, however, would be an extraordinary step.

    “Historically, that hasn’t been our DNA to take races away, but that’s not to say that going forward this wouldn’t start to set a precedent,” Sawyer said. “We’d have to look at it.”

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    Joey Logano reacts after the NASCAR race in Richmond, Va. on Aug. 11, 2024. Getty Images
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    Austin Dillon (3) and Joey Logano (22) during the NASCAR race in Richmond, Va. on Aug. 11, 2024. Getty Images

    Dillon appeared on his way to a much less controversial win after passing Hamlin for the lead with 29 laps to go. But then the Stenhouse-Preece crash and subsequent restart left Dillon in danger of an agonizing defeat.

    Dillon said he was trying to move Logano’s car, but hitting Hamlin as well was more of an instant reaction.

    “I’ve seen Denny and Joey make moves that have been running people up the track to win,” Dillon said. “This was the first opportunity in two years for me to be able to get a win. … I’ve seen a lot of stuff over the years in NASCAR where people move people, and it’s just part of our sport.”

    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.

    “I didn’t hear him, and I was on the radio with him. We’ll see,” Childress said. “If he did, he did a damn good job at it. He won the race.”

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