DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. -- Joey Logano and Scott Speed certainly have too tough a racer's mentality to give up after a couple slaps in the face, but wrecking out of Friday night's Budweiser Shootout at Daytona International Speedway in less than five laps got their attention.

"It sucks," Logano said after leaving the infield care center. "It's too early. I felt like we had a decent car for the first couple laps. I was just trying to get a feel for it before we went up there and mixed it up with everyone."

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What are you supposed to do with nowhere to go in that situation? I didn't get to learn much at all with only five or six laps into it.

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-- JOEY LOGANO

Logano and Speed were innocent victims in a multi-car crash that broke out with virtually the entire 28-car field in a two- and three-wide draft; when someone ahead of Jimmie Johnson in mid-pack caused the three-time defending Cup champion to check up.

When David Ragan, running right behind Johnson appeared to lift, he was hit from behind by Robby Gordon, which sent Ragan's No. 6 Ford into the outside wall. The ensuing jingle collected Speed, Logano and at the very end Casey Mears, whose car received minor front end damage (watch video).

"I don't know who was behind me," Ragan said outside the care center. "I think it was [Gordon], but he wasn't really paying attention and just drove into the back of us and kind of made a mess. It's just a typical deal here at Daytona and Talladega. When someone gets checked up usually two or three rows back someone doesn't see it."

That was little consolation to Speed, whose No. 82 Toyota was involved in an accident for the second consecutive night, or Logano, who was scheduled to start 19th but had to go to the rear when he missed the drivers' meeting while he finished second in the accident-plagued ARCA 200.

"It's tough," Logano said. "You start in the back and that's kind of what happens. Just saw one get loose, checked up and then saw he was coming down so I floored ahead to the apron and [Speed] just clipped me enough to send me back head-on into the wall."

After only four practices and a few more laps -- and experiencing the insanity that's a Daytona crash for the second consecutive night -- Speed offered a veteran's insight.

"Well, wrong place wrong time, obviously; the guys in front of me wrecked and the rest is just history," Speed said. "Kind of a thing that happens around here -- it's racing. The cars are so heavy and they're going so fast it's not actually a lot of reacting that you can do.

"Sometimes it works out and you go through there looking like a hero and sometimes it doesn't. It didn't work out the best, but still it's better than nothing. I got to say I learned a little, and yeah, I'm looking forward to the Daytona 500."

The cars of Speed, Logano, Ragan and Gordon were out on the spot, leaving Logano to rue his lack of track time, at least in his Cup car.

"It don't help [with preparation for the Daytona 500], that's for sure," Logano said. "What are you supposed to do with nowhere to go in that situation? I didn't get to learn much at all with only five or six laps into it. We tried hard."

The rudeness to Shootout newcomers continued at Lap 23 of the first, 25-lap segment when first-timer David Reutimann and 2006 Shootout winner Denny Hamlin made contact on the backstretch, sending Reutimann's No. 00 Toyota across the track and into the front of debutant David Stremme's No. 12 Dodge.

That incident ended the first segment under caution, but both Reutimann and Stremme were running on the lead lap halfway through the final 50-lap segment.