These days it seems like everyone in Nascar is mad at Joey Logano—and they are. But why? Here’s a case-by-case basis of why each driver in today’s race is angry at the driver of the 22 car.
(in order of starting position)
Chase Elliott—wonders why a grown man with his own life is still going by “Joey”.
Aric Almirola—saw Joey talking to Brain Scott once.
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Joey Logano—no problem!
Kyle Busch—feels that Joey in encroaching on his birthright to be an insufferable prick who wins a lot.
Clint Bowyer—Joey keeps testing his facade of being an affable good-ol-boy who likes everybody.
Brad Keselowski—keeps taking his pens at the weekly Team Penske meetings—even though they CLEARLY have Discount Tire logos on them.
Ryan Blaney—Joey keeps making “Menards/M’nards” jokes in the Team Penske group text.
Alex Bowman—was ok with him till Joey asked what its like to drive a sponsored car with no sponsor this year.
Kevin Harvick—people are still making that damn firesuit joke almost twenty years later.
Denny Hamlin—hatred that burns with a thousand suns…although to be fair Joey DID nearly break his back.
Martin Truex Jr.—ruined the good name of Connecticut, one Martin’s 18 adopted home states.
Kurt Busch—thinks Joey walks around like he’s hot stuff just because he’s only changed teams once.
Chris Buescher—Joey addressed his Christmas card to him as to “Chris Beu—Boo—Buer—the Kroger guy.”
Erik Jones—hey—you’d be mad at him too if you went into the Phoenix garage toilet after what Joey did in there.
Jimmie Johnson—calls Jimmie “old man”, which would be fine except he’s been doing it since 2005.
Austin Dillon—keeps pressing that spot on his hair in driver intros and making robot noises.
Ryan Newman—keeps pulling his hair in driver intros and making ripping noises.
John Hunter Nemechek—Joey always calls him “back row Billy”, which doesn’t even make sense.
Matt Kenseth—self-explanatory.
William Byron—refers to his sponsor Liberty University as “Lu”.
Matt DiBenedetto—calls the area where Team Penske works on Wood Bros. chassis as “Siberia”.
Bubba Wallace—wondered aloud in a media session why if World Wide Technology is really World Wide, they don’t sponsor a Formula 1 team.
Tyler Reddick—Joey keeps asking him how J.J.’s doing.
Corey LaJoie—he threw away Corey’s letter to Roger Penske.
Joey Gase—keeps parking in his drivers’ lot parking space, even though its further away.
Christopher Bell—Joey called him “Ding Dong”. Fifteen times. In a ten-minute meeting.
Ty Dillon—asked him if he drivers for “Jermaine”, why doesn’t Tito show up?
Ryan Preece—eh, New Englanders tend to hate other New Englanders.
JJ Yeley—Joey reminds him about his run in the 18 Cup car. A LOT.
Cole Custer—its a dislike passed-down from his mentor Tony Stewart (who REALLY hated doing that commercial).
Josh Bilicki—Joey keeps calling him James.
Brennan Poole—Joey keeps calling him Brandon.
Garrett Smithley—he asked for some spare change to put air in his tires and Joey gave him a dime and two pennies.
Quin Hoff—sent him a text once that ended with “Good Luck Quit!”, although this could’ve been spell-check error.
Michael McDowell—Joey LOVES to go to Pilot/FlyingJ reststops.
Daniel Suarez—Joey’s constantly pronouncing the H in “Hola”.
Timmy Hill—ALL SHALL FALL BEFORE THE MIGHTY WRATH OF PORT TOBACCO MARYLAND.
BJ McLeod—when he got his new Cup car number, Joey immediately asked if he’d be the next Larry Gunselman.
Reed Sorenson—Joey constantly asks him how he lost his Turner ride AND Dollar General.