Coste2Coste wrote:Furniture Row racing is shutting down at the end of the season.

Bucky wrote:

Coste2Coste wrote:Furniture Row racing is shutting down at the end of the season.

i guess they're gonna hire dozens of people with signs to stand at intersections and advertise their closing sale

BigEd76 wrote:Remaining 12: Ky.Busch, Harvick, Truex Jr, Keselowski, Bowyer, Logano, Ku.Busch, Blaney, Elliott, Kyle Larson, Aric Almirola, Alex Bowman

Round of 12 races: Dover, Talladega, Kansas
Round of 8 races: Martinsville, Texas, Phoenix
Championship: Homestead

ReadingPhilly wrote:was naive of him to think that logano wouldn't do that.

mtcal wrote:

ReadingPhilly wrote:was naive of him to think that logano wouldn't do that.

yah, he definitely doesn't have the experience in that kind of driving yet

ReadingPhilly wrote:

mtcal wrote:

ReadingPhilly wrote:was naive of him to think that logano wouldn't do that.

yah, he definitely doesn't have the experience in that kind of driving yet

he has a ton of experience, that's why it was dumb to think that.

“I raced him as hard as I race everybody,” Truex said. “I took the lead from him fair and square and then he gave me a cheap shot. It’s a cheap win. I hope he’s proud of himself.”
Truex’s Furniture Row Racing No. 78 Toyota surged into the conversation for the win with a methodical march past several daylong contenders. With the laps remaining reaching single digits, he found himself to the low side of Logano’s Team Penske No. 22 Ford, and the two cars rooted for position lap after lap.
Once Truex cleared Logano shortly after the white flag fell, Logano sized him up for the final set of turns and applied liberal amounts of front bumper. Logano had just enough momentum to finish first, with Denny Hamlin sneaking in for second place as Truex fought for control under the checkered flag.
“It was fun all the way up to the last turn, and he decided to just knock me out of the way,” Truex said. “So, I get that he wants to go to Homestead and I don’t know, man. I don’t race like that. I don’t appreciate it when others race me like that. Little bumps, obviously, we run into each other all the time, but just to deliberately knock me out of the way for the win, I thought was a cheap shot, in my opinion, and I’ll remember that if he’s in front of me coming to the checkered flag.
“He may have won the battle, but he ain’t winning the damn war,” an emotional Truex continued. “He ain’t.”
Not surprisingly, team owner Roger Penske took exception with Truex’s assertion that Logano’s tactics were not above board. Somewhat surprising was the forceful nature of his rebuttal.

“He’s a racer and should know better than to say that,” Penske said. “That’s as clean a shot as you can have in a race like this. … To me, I’m really looking forward. We want to go to Miami. Joey ran a great race. As far as I’m concerned, that’s just a comment that I don’t think we deserve. We’ll race him day after day. Stirring some controversy that he’s trying to spread. From my perspective, Joey drove a great race.”
Logano admitted to making a hawkish move, but expressed that his approach was far less blatant than Hamlin’s infamous nudge of Chase Elliott in last year’s playoff race at Martinsville.
“As a race car driver you think about a lot of things, but my goal was not to wreck him in any way,” Logano said. “My goal was to win the race, but I don’t want to win by dumping somebody. I want to win by making a move, and that’s the classic bump and run. That is the move that our sport — and Martinsville in particular — was built on. I feel like I owe it to my race team to do everything I can to be able to win a race and get ourselves to have another shot at a championship. That’s my job. They did their job today and I had to do mine.”

Polar Bear Phan wrote:The saddest part is that had Truex done that to Logano with 7 laps to go, I think he would've pulled away and won by a second or more.