Joey Logano potential NASCAR penalty: Footage emerges of revving engine, confrontation with official on pit road

It’s no secret that Joey Logano wasn’t happy after getting intentionally wrecked by Austin Dillon on the final lap of Sunday’s Cook Out 400 at Richmond Raceway.

That was evident by Logano’s post-race interview when he referred to Dillon’s race-winning move as “chickenshit,” but before that, Logano decided to rev his engine on pit road near a crowd of crew members, as well as Dillon’s family.

On-car footage has since emerged of the incident showing Logano getting into a fiery confrontation with a NASCAR official.

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NASCAR is expected to make a ruling Tuesday on a possible punishment for Logano.

“We’ll take, you know, we don’t want to make a split-second decision and get it wrong, so we want to make sure we go back, and we’ll look at everything that happened on the last lap and postrace and see if any penalties need to be issued,” said Elton Sawyer, NASCAR Senior Vice President of Competition, when asked about Logano’s actions, via Bob Pockrass of FOX Sports.

Austin Dillon pissed at Joey Logano for revving engine near wife, kid

Dillon, who took the checkered flag after wrecking Logano and then Denny Hamlin immediately after, took issue with Logano taking out his frustrations on pit road in front of his wife and daughter.

“The only thing that did piss me off about Joey was when he came through there, my wife and kid were headed across to get to cross, and he revved the engine up right in front of my kid and Johnny Morris and those people,” Dillon told Kevin Harvick on his “Happy Hour” podcast Monday. “I get it. You got to be mad and upset but do it like in an interview or talk to me about it. You got to be careful on pit road with that type of stuff.”

In Logano’s mind, he had every right to be upset. Dillon not only cost him the victory, but did so in questionable fashion.

“No, when you get that far ahead, three four car lengths ahead in three. I didn’t back up the entry, I was like, ‘I’ll just wrap the bottom here, I’m good.’ And he just drives in so hard,” Logano said, via Matt Weaver of Sportsnaut. “Obviously, he didn’t make the turn because he hit me and the 11 was going to win the race. So, he had no intention to race. I beat him fair and square on the restart and he just pulled a chickenshit move. He’s a piece of crap, he sucks. He’s sucked his whole career, and now he’s going to be in the playoffs and good for him, I guess.”