Joey Logan said in an exclusive interview with ESPN on Tuesday that he is remorseful for the fact that Denny Hamlin was injured in a last-lap wreck between the two at Auto Club Speedway. However, 22-year-old said he was not remorseful for how he raced.
Five years ago, Logano entered NASCAR as a teenage phenom with high expectations. He admittedly got "walked on" when he entered the sport and stressed that Sprint Cup drivers must prove to other competitors that they won't be intimidated.
"You have to stand up for yourself," Logano said. "We're racing against the same people every weekend, and you have to show them that you're out here to win the race. You're out there to stand strong, and you're doing that for your whole team.
"I'm representing my whole team when I get into that race car, and I'm not going to get pushed around. I'm not OK with getting pushed around. I wouldn't expect anybody out there to be OK with being pushed around."
Logano called the Hamlin accident a product of "hard racing" between the two during the final lap in California. He noted that he was well aware of whom he was racing just then, in the aftermatch of their run-in at Bristol Motor Speedway the previous week.
"You feel like you got done wrong," Logano said. "You feel like you got spun out, so it doesn't help that relationship [with Hamlin], obviously. You remember that. That goes through your mind."
A clip from Logano's interview with ESPN can be seen here:
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