DeLana dishes on firesuits, T-shirts, Logano's words

The last thing DeLana Harvick expected when she attended last Sunday's Gillette 500 at Pocono Raceway was to find herself in the center of a controversial firestorm -- over her firesuit, nonetheless.

But that's exactly what happened after her husband, Kevin Harvick, got involved in a crash with Joey Logano on what was the last scheduled lap of the long event. Harvick and those in his No. 29 Chevrolet camp thought it was Logano's fault or just one of those "racing incidents" where two guys end up going for the same piece of real estate late in a race and one inevitably loses. Logano, driver of the No. 20 Toyota, thought otherwise.

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In fact, Logano was so infuriated that he drove his car right next to Harvick's on pit road following the race. Then he revved his engine and later his mouth, telling reporters: "His wife wears the firesuit in the family and tells him what to do. It's probably not his fault."

DeLana Harvick said Tuesday that she wasn't sure why Logano chose to bring her into it.

"I was at the race and I started getting all these text messages, and I wasn't really sure what they were all referring to. I just didn't understand," she said. "I didn't understand how my name got brought into the situation. I wasn't anywhere near where it happened. I was standing back, watching it take place. So it threw me off in the beginning.

"But the more I thought about it later, I was kind of like, well, if I had my way with Kevin, I would like to have him take me out to a nice dinner or maybe give me a back rub or an ankle rub. Having him wreck Joey Logano wouldn't even make my radar screen if I had almighty control over Kevin."

DeLana said she and Kevin Harvick have been bombarded with e-mails, text messages and phone calls since the incident by outraged supporters of the No. 29. Logano's choice of post-race words have been a hot topic on NASCAR.COM as well, with some e-mailers, bloggers and comment-makers wondering why in the heck DeLana wears a firesuit in the first place and others insisting that Logano somehow offended women everywhere with his post-race comment. (Continued)