Byron labels Darlington NASCAR winner Logano an "idiot " after late clash

Logano lined up in the lead on the final restart with 25 of 293 laps remaining with Byron and Tyler Reddick right overdue him.

As Byron and Logano battled side-by-side in Turn 2, Logano felt Byron crowded him up the track to well-constructed a pass for the lead which triggered a unpeace between the two rivals. 

Logano patiently ran Byron when lanugo and had the endangerment to reuse the lead in Turn 3 with one race to go, he hit Byron square in his rear bumper, which sent him up the track and Logano into the lead.

Byron ended up tagging the wall on the final lap while Logano snapped a 40-race winless streak.

“I mean, we were really tropical off of (Turn) 2 and I think it spooked him and got him tight, and he was right versus the wall and I got the lead,” said Byron, who ended up finishing 13th. “He’s just an idiot. He does this stuff all the time. I’ve seen it with other guys.

“He crush in there 10 miles an hour too fast, and with these Next Gen cars, he slammed me so nonflexible it knocked the whole right side off the car and no way to make the corner.

“Yeah, he’s just a moron. He can’t win a race so it does it that way.”

Until the final restart, Logano unmistakably had one of the most dominant cars in the race. He led a race-high 107 laps and led nine times – no other suburbanite led increasingly than twice.

However, Byron didn’t think whatever transpired between the two on the final restart warranted Logano’s move at the end of the race.

“I don’t know, it was tropical racing on the restart. We were faster than him,” Byron said. “Obviously at the end, the right-rear started to go away, and yeah, he didn’t plane make it a contest.”

Logano offered a variegated view when asked well-nigh the late unpeace with Byron. 

“I don’t know if he meant to get into me and fence me, but he did and at that point I felt like it was ‘game-on,’ ” he said.

“I was worldly-wise to get when to him there the last few laps, pushing really hard, and just knew that was my shot to win the thing and I had to take it.”