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Kyle Busch calls out Joey Logano after Daytona 500 wreck

FaceProfileby:Thomas Goldkamp02/16/25
Kyle Busch
Mark J. Rebilas-USA TODAY Sports

A wreck involving Joey Logano and Ricky Stenhouse Jr. collected multiple other drivers, including Kyle Busch. Busch had been running P3 but was swept up in the big wreck.

He thought he could return to the track, but NASCAR protocols prevented him from doing so. So it was day over for the driver of the No. 8.

Kyle Busch took serious issue with Logano’s driving after being knocked from the race.

“Looks like the fastest car got in a hurry to get to the wreck,” Busch said in a post-race interview on FOX. “Logano was by far the fastest car today. Saw a lot of laps led and he could about do anything. The Penske cars were very strong. We still got 20 laps to go and he’s trying to go through the middle and make a hole that isn’t there. Just created chaos.”

The wreck occurred when Logano got a big run out behind Stenhouse. 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.”

Kyle Busch among them.

The long-time NASCAR driver was irate with Logano’s judgment and blasted him after the race.

“Hate it for all of our guys on the Zone Chevrolet,” Busch said. “We had a fast car and we were in position and just kind of biding our time and seeing what was going to happen next. Yeah, just, you’ve got to know how wide your racecar is to be able to find a hole that it will fit in, and he obviously doesn’t know that.”