[autotag]Austin Dillon[/autotag] shocked the NASCAR world on Sunday night, but it didn’t come without some controversy. Dillon led with two laps to go before a caution and had a bad restart in overtime. The driver of the No. 3 car dumped Joey Logano in Turn 3 on the final lap and proceeded to take out Denny Hamlin. Both drivers were extremely upset with Dillon after the event.
In fact, Dillon responded to Logano on Kevin Harvick’s podcast, Kevin Harvick’s Happy Hour, after the latter called him out on pit road. Also, the Richard Childress Racing driver quoted Richard Childress regarding the possibility of Logano retaliating.
“[Joey Logano] threw some low blows in there,” Dillon said. “Obviously [he was] frustrated in the moment, but the two guys that I got into it with have done that a lot that I’ve learned from on the last lap of the races themselves. I’ve heard Joey’s interviews, ‘How bad do you want it? You got to do whatever it takes.’ I’ve seen him do it at Martinsville and different places on the last corner. So this time, he was a victim of it. Sometimes, it happens.”
AUSTIN DILLON SLAMS INTO JOEY LOGANO!
HE WINS AT RICHMOND. #NASCAR pic.twitter.com/6fCmEzG6WC
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“He’s got a lot more wins than I do. If he retaliates, he retaliates. My grandfather [Richard Childress] said, ‘You might kick a dog, but he’ll bite back.'”
Dillon was also not pleased with Logano for his actions on pit road after the event, as the No. 22 car smoked his tires near the No. 3 crew and his family. Dillon and Logano are both likely to receive penalties from NASCAR this week. However, this development between the two drivers isn’t expected to go away anytime soon.
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