Joey Logano fined $50k for Richmond pit road incident
CONCORD, N.C. — NASCAR fined Joey Logano for an incident on pit road after Sunday night’s Cook Out 400 at Richmond Raceway.
Logano will have to shell out $50,000 to the sanctioning body. Team Penske reportedly doesn’t plan to appeal the decision made Wednesday.
Logano was irate after Austin Dillon bumped him from the lead and into the turn three wall on the final lap. As Logano drove down pit road with a broken toe link, he came close to people standing near where he was passing by. Video showed bystanders had to quickly back out of the way – and a NASCAR official even had to urgently push some of them out of the way.
Logano then stopped. Then, as he got back going, he did a burnout before finally coming to a stop.
When he stopped, a NASCAR official swiftly admonished him.
NASCAR penalized Dillon for the on-track incident with Logano.
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Jonathan Fjeld is the co-owner of the The Racing Experts, LLC. He has been with TRE since 2010.
A Twin Valley, MN, native, Fjeld became a motorsports fan at just three years old (first race was the 2002 Pennsylvania 500). He worked as a contributor and writer for TRE from 2010-18. Since then, he has stepped up and covered 24 NASCAR race weekends and taken on a larger role with TRE. He became the co-owner and managing editor in 2023 and has guided the site to massive growth in that time.
Fjeld has covered a wide array of stories and moments over the years, including Kevin Harvick's final Cup Series season, the first NASCAR national series disqualification in over 50 years, Shane van Gisbergen's stunning win in Chicago and the first Cup Series race at Road America in 66 years – as well as up-and-coming drivers' stories and stories from inside the sport, like the tech it takes for Hendrick Motorsports to remain a top-tier team.
Currently, he resides in Albuquerque, N.M., where he works for KOB 4, an NBC station. He works as a digital producer and does on-air reports. He loves spending time with friends and family, playing and listening to music, exploring new places, being outdoors, reading books and writing among other activities. You can email him at fjeldjonathan@gmail.com