Firesuit remark evidence Logano has fire in the belly

Oh, no he didn't.

Yes, he did. He really did.

Joey Logano not only called out Kevin Harvick in the aftermath of the Gillette Fusion ProGlide 500 at Pocono Raceway, but he brought Harvick's wife, DeLana, into the ensuing verbal melee. Furious over what he believed was a deliberate and unnecessary turning of his No. 20 Toyota on what was supposed to have been the final lap of the 500-mile marathon, Logano took his anger to pit road -- where he drove toward Harvick's crew, which had massed around Harvick's No. 29 Chevrolet. Then Logano revved his engine and later his mouth after he jumped out of his car and found that he couldn't get to Harvick for a few words.

Boiling point

A race-long battle between JGR and RCR drivers came to a head when Joey Logano and Kevin Harvick got together.

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"His wife wears the firesuit in the family and tells him what to do. It's probably not his fault," Logano later said of Harvick, in reference to the fact that DeLana Harvick has long worn team firesuits while sitting on the No. 29 pit box during races.

You know, the kid did have a point. Why does DeLana Harvick insist on wearing firesuits during races when regular clothes seem to work just fine for all the other wives and girlfriends who climb atop pit boxes to watch their men at work in NASCAR's Sprint Cup Series?

Then again, who cares? That's DeLana Harvick's business and no one else's.

Nonetheless, it was a good line and it was delivered with the kind of fire that was great to see from the 20-year-old Logano, who had every right to be upset on a day that had a little bit of everything at the end to dispel the theory that nothing of great interest ever really happens at Pocono. Did we mention that Logano's two Joe Gibbs Racing teammates, Denny Hamlin and Kyle Busch, finished 1-2 in the race and made news by getting along famously, which was news in itself?

Overreaction

Nothing else seemed to matter as much after Logano went off on Harvick.

While Harvick's crew chief, Gil Martin, insisted to all who would listen that the wreck was Logano's fault because he cut down on his driver, not everyone agreed with that assessment. Martin insisted that anyone with access to a video replay (such as the one than can be seen here) could tell that Logano cut down on Harvick as they raced for fourth place. (Continued)