Robby Gordon responds to Joey Logano's comments

Robby Gordon and Joey Logano got into a few confrontations on the track during Saturday's Nationwide race at Watkins Glen with the end result of Logano's car getting knocked off course and crashing into the tire barriers, causing heavy damage to the car.

After the crash, Logano was critical of Gordon and called him out for causing the accident.

Logano said: "We just got wrecked. I don't know what his problem was, but there is no room for that.''

Logano also was quoted in The Charlotte Observer as saying: "(Gordon) decided to wreck me under caution. It was a pretty raw deal. It was pretty stupid. You can't fix stupid. It's forever.''

Robby Gordon issued a statement Sunday morning, explaining what happened. Here's Gordon's statement:

"After reviewing the comments by Lagano and the replay of the day's events, I felt that it was necessary to explain what happened during yesterday's race from my prospective.

This whole turn of events started with Joey running into the back of my No. 55 in Turn 10. He then knocked me sideways in Turn 11. To show him my displeasure, I ran him down towards the inside wall on the front straight. I tried to do a crossover move in Turn 1 to get back by him; however, I missed judged a little resulting in both of us getting flat tires. 

During the final incident that ended Joey's day, we were racing  for the lucky dog position. We both had good cars and were just trying to improve our finishing position for the day. After the bus stop chicane,  Joey wrecked the No. 34 of Tony Raines. This contact allowed me to get underneath him in Turn 9. He saw that I was going to pass him for the Lucky Dog position, so he tried to block me. This maneuver resulted in his right rear tire connecting with my left front. From there, I felt he would be okay because he was in the section where the outer loop was. Rather than going down the inner loop, he decided to cut across the grass, hitting the tire barrier.

At the end of the day I'm just glad Joey is okay.  This is a highly competitive sport, and we are all very passionate when we are on the track. Tempers have a tendency to flare, but hopefully in the future we will both race each other cleaner.

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