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Joey Logano Explains Why He Wore Blatantly Illegal Gloves · Kenny Wallace Media

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  Jenna Fryer AP NASCAR showed us your glove today, and it was.
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  Geez, Jenna, you know we put it on the pole.
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  You want to talk about that first or do you want to go
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  straight to that? Were you wearing the glove
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  today? Are.
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  You wearing the glove at the Daytona 500?
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  He's wearing my gloves, my SFI gloves.
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  Roger said that he spoke to you and he was very disappointed in
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  that. It looked very blatant to us.
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  When the team comes to you and says wear this glove, you just
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  say OK. I mean, yeah, you know, it's
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  kind of how a lot of things work and you know, as a driver you,
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  you know, you you work with the team and hey, I'm going to take
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  a portion of responsibility of that too.
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  Obviously, I should I put the glove on?
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  You know, it said I didn't build a glove and go make it on my
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  own. I can't sew, OK.
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  So yeah, I mean that's what it was and you know, we have
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  conversations about it. What I'm proud about his team is
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  that, you know, yeah, that was a tough situation for us.
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  It's hard to go through and embarrassing for sure.
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  But the fact that we got through it and just move on and and
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  focus on the next week and we show that we have some speed in
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  our race car and be able to put it on the pole here kind of says
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  to me is a statement type lap. So proud of that.
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  I did that. I honestly had motivation.
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  But does this does it make this pole mean any more?
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  The fact that you went out there and had speed without, we assume
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  any sort of. I got plenty of motivation,
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  really. Ever since you said I wasn't
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  going to make the playoffs this year, I've had plenty of
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  motivation. OK, so I'm I'm a good, I'm in a
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  good place. And you know, the thing about
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  the glove is they say, well, you know these things aren't tested
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  for fire retardant and stuff like did you do you feel like
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  you put yourself in a sort of unsafe?
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  No position, No. I I personally did not.
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  If if I ever, you know, I wouldn't ever put myself in a
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  situation where I feel unsafe. I have kids.
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  I have a wife. I have a family that I care way
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  more about than race cars. And yeah, no, I feel concerned
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  about what we did. I didn't race with it.
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  So qualifying on speedways is pretty simple, Jeff.
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  It's it's one thing to come out and have super Speedway poles,
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  but to do this at first downforce check, I mean with the
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  the the new car, are you surprised that you expect this
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  to happen? I didn't expect it.
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  When I saw our short run speed in practice, I was kind of like
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  this this might not be where we need to be.
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  We we showed that we had a great long run speed.
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  Our second run we made an adjustment, went back out and
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  was like oh wow, we're like really competitive car's driving
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  pretty good so I felt good about that.
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  But our short run like fire off, we weren't real fast.
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  We weren't far up the board and then barely made it through the
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  first round, you know, just by the skin of our teeth there.
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  But and then be able to, you know, make some adjustments.
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  I was proud of what Paul and and the guys were able to do, to be
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  able to make it adjustment the car driving closer to perfect
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  and for the second round and be able to put it up here.
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  I really didn't think after the first round we had a chance of
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  putting it on a pole, so I'm proud of the adjustments that we
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  made there. So we got some work to do
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  tonight for sure. But the first pit stalls, nice.
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  Obviously starting up front for the Pencil 400 in the Pencil
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  Mustang, huge for our race team. So that makes dinner tonight a
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  little bit easier for me. So it's good.
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  And then we'll fire off tomorrow and hopefully get a bit more
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  short run speed and we can make our long runs really good.
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  What's that? Yeah, Yeah.
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  All right. We have time for two more.
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  Joey's got to get up to the Fox booth, so we'll go there in the
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  middle. Got three in the middle, Reed
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  and then Jerry. Good.
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  Brian Twining bets Words Media Group.
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  Joey, we saw you do this last year and then we all know how
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  the race went. How optimistic are you about the
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  new body style and what you got to see in the very limited
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  amount of practice time that you guys will have the long run
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  speed to maintain track positions?
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  Yeah, we're we're still uncertain of what the the new
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  dark horse Mustang will be like. You know, it's really
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  challenging to unload at a track like Vegas with limited practice
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  where you can't change many things, right?
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  We can't go to throwing springs and stuff at this car and you're
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  going off of really not much like physical notes with this
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  car, some of what we had last year.
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  But the Arrow numbers are different with this car and
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  you're putting a lot of trust into what the wind tunnel
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  numbers spit out and how much of it's real and how much of it is,
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  you know, fabricated or different.
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  You know, like there's a lot of, there's a lot of what ifs
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  between SIM world, wind tunnel world to reality is a lot of
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  things that can be different. So really hard to make those,
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  those changes to your car and getting that balance right.
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  And so it took us a couple runs obviously to do that.
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  We still got a lot to learn with the car, but yeah, good start
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  for sure. Reed Spencer with the NASCAR
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  wire looked like the wind picked up quite a bit for the second
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  round and it also looked like from the ghost car that that you
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  rolled one and two really well and that that that's that's
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  where you had the advantage of everybody else.
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  Yeah gosh I I got to think it's wind that made the difference
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  because the first run I was pretty slow through one and two
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  all the way through the corner sounds like man I I only thing
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  you think of the change for for straightaway speed wasn't our
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  change if we're no means it was going to have to bend by the
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  wind maybe they had a big gust a first run or something that held
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  me back a little bit because that just doesn't doesn't seem
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  to make sense. We were really good through one
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  and two on the second time. The first time we're, we're
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  horrible through there. So you're wide open either way,
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  right? So the only variable there is
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  really the wind. Jared Jordan kicking the tires
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  on it while I was going to ask about the wind, but I'll go to
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  my backup question I I talked to Brad earlier and he said the
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  glove likely probably doesn't have that big of a deal, but it
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  might make people feel better. Is it more important to feel
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  better than than to worry about the glove site situation?
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  I didn't feel better after it, I can tell you that much.
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  So it's directionally better. How much better?
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  Probably nothing. That's the part that hurts the
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  most. It was even worth it.
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  So yeah, it it didn't do anything to speak of.
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  It's directionally an area that everybody goes to try to, you
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  know, block that, that whole, you know, you see everyone put
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  their hand there. We just try to cover more space.
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  All right. Joey, congratulations on this
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  poll. Good luck tomorrow.
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  Thank you.