Ross Chastain vs Joey Logano NASCAR driver beef takes shocking new turn

This was the Ross Chastain vs Joey Logano NASCAR update that absolutely nobody expected.

For the past few weeks these two Cup Series superstars have been playing out their long-standing driver beef in glorious HD, both on and off the track.

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In early July they clashed big-time in Chicago with Ross spinning Joey late in the race, and the pair then taking their clash onto pit road for another confrontation.

Ross vs Joey really cooked

Logano would tell reporters afterwards: “He admitted he wrecked me on purpose, he admitted it - which means he should get fined if he admittedly wrecked someone on purpose. That’s not OK. … It’s just typical Ross.

“He just sees red and does dumb stuff. That’s all. And that’s twice this year on road courses at the end of these things I’ve been cost by Ross. Just over it.”

The beef would continue a fortnight later in Dover, with Chastain and Logano repeatedly making contact during a brutal battle at the ‘Monster Mile’.

These incidents weren’t the first time this pair have clashed either - back in March at Martinsville Logano was furious after contact from Chastain to Chase Briscoe sent Briscoe into Logano, spinning Joey from sixth place. Logano’s response, again, was an exasperated one:

“He [Chastain] just races like a jackass every week, and I keep paying the price. I’m sick of paying the price.”

So, heading to Indianapolis at the weekend, few had a Chastain/Logano love-in on their Cup Series bingo card, but that is effectively what we got in a new and shocking development.

After the breakup, the makeup

Chastain was first up, admitting: “Joey and I, we’re so similar, and I like it. For me, I think it’s a compliment that we think that way just in life and business and racing.

"Occasionally, that comes to a physical contact on the track, and it did recently. We had a good time in Loudon for the tire test, good conversation and good laughs in the garage yesterday.”

Logano provided a similar take on the situation, admitting that this particular beef was heading for a pretty nasty conclusion if the pair did not talk it out.

“The best thing you can always do is talk things out and try to come to a common ground, try to come to a resolution somehow,” he explained.

“I think it was pretty clear to probably both of us, it wasn’t gonna end pretty. So probably best for both of us to find a common ground to where we can move forward and race each other in a respectful way.

“That’s kind of the conversation. I went up to him and said ‘hey, there’s two ways we can handle it. There’s one way that’s pretty ugly and there’s one way that we can maybe show a little respect to each other and move forward.’ He chose the latter, which I think was probably a good move. Hopefully, we’re able to work that moving forward.”

After all the talk and makeups, Ross and Joey did have to race again on Sunday and Indy, but the results suggests we need the beef to return - and fast. Logano would end the day 32nd, with Chastain 39th and last.

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