Brad Keselowski crew chief reacts to No. 6 car's wild wreck: 'Your buddy Logano ran you over'
Brad Keselowski and William Byron were involved in the sixth caution of the day in Sunday’s Go Bowling at The Glen at Watkins Glen with seven laps to go.
The final picture showed both buried into the wall with Byron’s right front wheel lodged into Keselowski’s window net. But what preceded the accident was Joey Logano getting into the left bumper of Keselowski, his former Team Penske teammate. That sent Keselowski sliding and into Byron, and the two hit the wall together.
After the wreck, Keselowski asked crew chief Matt McCall “What the hell happened there?” McCall responded, “Your buddy Logano ran over you.” Spotter TJ Majors added, “Cleaned out by Joey, 100%.”
The late wreck capped off an overall disappointing day for Keselowski at a time where he couldn’t afford to have one. He entered Sunday’s playoff race one point below the cutline after a P19 finish at Atlanta the week prior. Keselowski is now 12 points back going into Bristol next Saturday, the final playoff race in the Round of 16. Keselowski was hardly the only playoff driver to have trouble at Watkins Glen, as just two of the 16 drivers in the field finished inside the top-10.
Joey Logano admits fault in Brad Keselowski, William Byron crash
Logano took responsibility after the race, admitting he needed to check up more before making contact with Keselowski. He took aim at NASCAR for not cleaning up the track before restarts, which he believes helped cause the accident.
“I just wanted to talk to him,” Logano said. “I mean really, I’m not making any excuses, I needed to check up more but the track’s a complete disaster. They need to clean it up and I got pushed maybe four-wide at one point, so tried to give room there and got up in the marbles. When I went to turn back to the left, it’s got crap all over the tires and I got into him.
“It’s still on me, right, but at the same time, clean the damn track. I brought it up at least two to three times about cleaning the track before the restarts, but it just didn’t happen.”