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Clint Bowyer, Kevin Harvick break down the wreck between Joey Logano, Ricky Stenhouse Jr.

FaceProfileby:Thomas Goldkamp02/16/25
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The big one at the Daytona 500 claimed multiple drivers, including Joey Logano and Ricky Stenhouse Jr. The wreck came with 15 laps to go in the race.

It will alter the course of the race, with a handful of potential winners taken off the track.

“Twenty-four cars have been involved in today’s incidents so far,” broadcaster Clint Bowyer said. “Let’s take a look back as Ricky Stenhouse and Joey Logano fought for position here.”

The wreck occurred when Joey Logano got a big run out behind Ricky Stenhouse Jr. As he closed down the space, Logano saw a lane to the middle to potentially slip by Stenhouse.

Stenhouse attempted to block him, and that’s what started the big chain reaction.

“Yeah, you see Stenhouse is going to make this last-second block right here when Joey goes to the inside,” Kevin Harvick said on the broadcast. “And it’s tight. Joey lifts out of the gas, and I think that in-car camera out of Joey’s, the hole is closed right there, opens briefly and Logano is just, he’s there and Stenhouse is not giving an inch. It caught a lot of cars up in this at the end.”

The cars careening across the track collected Kyle Busch, among others, while Ryan Blaney also sustained some damage.

To the eyes of the NASCAR broadcast crew, the wreck involving Joey Logano and Ricky Stenhouse Jr. didn’t necessarily have a clear party at fault. It was hard racing, for the most part.

“I mean the 47, it was pretty clear he wasn’t going to give him that spot,” Bowyer said. “Full commitment, that’s what you expect out of both of those guys.”

Harvick agreed with that assessment on the Joey Logano, Ricky Stenhouse Jr. incident.

“I mean it’s just two guys who don’t want to give,” Harvick said. “I mean we’re 15 laps to go. In that scenario, Stenhouse doesn’t want to give up the track position and Logano feels like the block was too late and he is probably a little bit frustrated.”