CONCORD, N.C. -- Greg Biffle expressed remorse Thursday for running Joey Logano into the wall during last Saturday's Nationwide race at Auto Club Speedway in California.

But he also expressed disappointment in the way the 19-year-old Logano has raced him of late, and said pointedly that the young driver has much to learn about proper driver etiquette on and off the race track.

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I didn't run him into the fence on purpose. I just meant to put a little squeeze on him like he did to me at Kansas.

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-- GREG BIFFLE

Despite late contact with Biffle and the outside wall, Logano won his second consecutive Nationwide race at California. He has won five of 19 Nationwide starts he's made this season -- but Biffle obviously has a problem with the way Logano, who is running a part-time Nationwide schedule while running a full-time Cup schedule for the first time, has been conducting his business at the track.

"I probably shouldn't have run Joey out of room, or run him so tight at the end of the straightaway at California down the backstretch," Biffle admitted. "It's really bumpy up there and I watched the video on it. I squeezed him up and it looked like he hit the fence and then came back down and hit the side of me.

"But the week prior at Kansas, he drove down in the corner three-wide, smashed my fender in and smashed me against the guy on the outside of me. Then he drove off and won the race. We were catching the No. 18 car and felt like we had a car to win with, and I fell back and finished fifth. I could barely hang on until the end of the race, and didn't have a pit stop to come in and fix my car."

Biffle said he talked with Logano after that race, but added that their chat produced no tangible results that he could see.

"I talked to Joey after the race and I said, 'What's most disappointing for me is to race a young guy like yourself who has a lot of talent and a lot of ability and something like that goes on on the race track, and you don't come over and say anything to a guy,'" Biffle said.

Biffle went on to add that he expected, if not a full-fledged apology from Logano, at least some kind of acknowledgement and/or regret about what had happened.

"[Something] about, 'Hey, sorry I messed your race up; sorry I ran into you; didn't think we would get together; thought we had more room. Something like that," Biffle said.

Finally, Biffle bluntly told Logano what he thought the Cup rookie needs to do.

"I think you need to pay a little more respect to the veterans in this sport," Biffle said he told Logano.

Asked if Logano was receptive of his advice, Biffle replied: "Not really. And that's disappointing because [as a young driver] I got talked to by Sterling Marlin and a few other guys and I learned a lot from it -- because there were things I was probably doing on the race track being a younger guy and not realizing probably what I was doing.

"But I had the best in my teammate [at the time], Mark Martin. I learned a tremendous amount from him. You have to have guys to look up to and learn things in this sport. We've all been there and all made mistakes and we all try and look to be better in the future."

Through a spokesperson, Logano declined to respond to Biffle's comments Thursday. Another factor in the entire episode was the fact that Biffle announced he was going to put Logano into the wall prior to doing so.

But Biffle insisted that he didn't mean to actually shove Logano's car into the wall.

"He chopped down in front of Tony Stewart at Dover and that didn't work out for him and I was pretty angry over that [and what happened at Kansas], so I just squeezed him out of room," Biffle said. "I didn't run him into the fence on purpose. I just meant to put a little squeeze on him like he did to me at Kansas.

"I had nowhere to go and I wanted to put him in that situation to see what he thought about having nowhere to go and having to keep the wheel straight with not a lot of room to race. We made more contract than I certainly expected.

"You can blame it on me for just plain running him into the wall, but that's not the way it happened. I shouldn't have done that. He worked on his car and fixed it, and was able to come back. Unfortunately for me, it was the last run of the day in Kansas and I didn't have an opportunity to fix my car."

Biffle added that the post-race incident supposedly involving some sort of altercation between him and Tom Logano, Joey's father, on pit road following the race at California was overblown. The elder Logano had his hard card, an all-access season credential, pulled by NASCAR as a result.

"Him losing his hard card and that whole thing was maybe a little overbearing because he was jogging down pit road heading for Victory Lane, which was right behind us where we were all coming in to stop and get the restrictor plate off the car," Biffle said. "There was a two or three-car length gap between me and the guy in front of me, and he kind of swerved into the lane and gave me the sign that I was number one [with his middle finger], and kind of veered back over and continued on down to Victory Lane. That was it. I waved at him when he went by."

Tom Logano still has not had his hard card returned by NASCAR, but is attending races on credentials issued on a race-by-race basis by respective tracks. Joey Logano is entered in both the Nationwide and Cup races this weekend at Lowe's Motor Speedway, while Biffle is entered only in the Cup event -- Saturday night's NASCAR Banking 500.

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