‘He brake-checked the heck out of me,’ Joey Logano on what cost him a win against William Byron at Martinsville
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Joey Logano and William Byron
Joey Logano, who won the unofficial season beginner of 2022, the LA “Clash at the Colosseum” missed out on his first official race win in the Next-Gen car at Martinsville against a dominant William Byron who became the first multi-race winner in the new generation car.
Joey Logano broke into the frontline alongside Austin Dillon to break the dominant run of Hendrick Motorsports drivers William Byron and championship leader Chase Elliott and was able to move his way up to P3 in the final restart. In the final restart of the race with two laps to go both the driver started to race hard but Joey Logano failed to take the chance to advance during Byron’s mistake in Turn 4.
Now the Team Penske, No. 22 Ford Mustang driver and 2018 Cup Series Champion has come forth revealing that he should have been more aggressive on William Byron towards the end and he made the right move by break checking him.
Find out what Joey Logano said
Joey Logano acknowledged that he should have driven a little harder on William Byron on Martinsville with the Next-Gen car and considering the superiority it has on the corners compared to his car. He went on to say it is too much and too a lot for him to do at the corners to have a chance at winning against Byron, such as making the turn and bumping him.
“You’ve got to punt them a little bit harder with this car, it seems like, but it was all I could do to get to him. That was kind of the tough part — his car was superior to mine into the corner for sure,” Joey Logano said.
“That’s where the Hendrick cars have been strong all year; they get into the corner harder than anybody. So, it was all I could do to get to him. Getting to him and bumping him, and me trying to make the turn, it’s just all too much and I couldn’t quite get it done,” Joey Logano added.
Joey Logano went on to explain that William Byron made the right move at Turn 1 on the white flag by break Checking him hard and by stopi9ng him at two-thirds. He added that he missed the chance to overtake Byron at Turn 1 but he failed to quite get the job done on time.
“(I) thought, OK, here’s my chance. Went into (Turn) 1 on the white flag lap and got to him and tried to root him up a little bit and I did, but not quite enough. And then he kind of was able to turn back down and just stop me at the two-thirds. We were going to the gas, he hit the brakes and it just checked me up big, which was the right move,” Joey Logano Explained.
“He brake-checked the heck out of me and he should have and it worked for him. Then I was just too far back into (Turn) 3. My chance was into (Turn) 1 to try to get him up next to me and didn’t quite get the job done there,” Joey Logano added.
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