Last week, I was part of a loud chorus of voices taking Joey Logano to task for not backing up his words and his barbs on Twitter with action on the race track.
After Sunday’s race, I heard many of those same voices criticize Logano for wrecking Hamlin on the final lap of the Auto Club 400.
Sorry, but you can’t have it both ways.
The Law of Inevitability in Sports put Hamlin and Logano side by side for the final lap, a week after Hamlin’s bump of Logano’s Ford sent the Penske Racing driver spinning into the wall at Bristol. That, as well as the criticism he received after Bristol, was all Logano needed to make sure Hamlin didn’t win at Fontana — even if it meant wrecking himself in the process.
“He probably shouldn’t have done what he did last week, so that’s what he gets,” Logano said after the race — an unfortunate choice of words, given Hamlin’s trip to the hospital.
But if you bashed Logano for being all talk and no action last week, don’t knock him for standing up for himself this week. Fair is fair.
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