On Oct. 11 at Charlotte, contact from Joey Logano’s Ford turned the #10 Chevy of Danica Patrick and ruined her night. Patrick’s immediate instinct was to get revenge, but she realized that wrecking Logano at Charlotte would have no impact on his run for the championship since Logano had won on the previous weekend at Kansas and was guaranteed a spot in the Chase’s Eliminator Round. Martinsville, site of Sunday’s Goody’s Headache Relief Shot 500, is another matter. With points reset, and with the remaining eight Chase drivers entering the race on equal footing, revenge could be devastating. That’s why Logano has taken measures to ensure Martinsville won’t become a payback track. ‘We’ve actually talked about it since then, and I feel like we’ve come to a good conclusion of what happened there,’ Logano said. ‘That’s in the past. That’s in the mirror, and we’ll move forward.’ From Logano’s point of view, the hatchet is buried, but the driver of the #22 Team Penske Ford still has to hope that Patrick doesn’t decide to bury it in his back.(NASCAR Wire Service)(10-22-2014)
UPDATE: Things may not be as rosy between Danica Patrick and Joey Logano as Logano believes. Logano said earlier this week he had smoothed things over with Patrick and did not expect retaliation over an incident earlier this month between the two at Charlotte. Patrick cautioned Saturday she will not be pushed around by Logano or anyone else on the race track. ‘If he keeps proving that he’s sorry, then everything will be fine,’ Patrick said in a measured tone. Patrick said Logano was contrite, but didn’t sound Saturday as if that was enough. ‘When we talked, he wanted to say sorry for a few things and he said ‘I don’t expect you to do anything different but I just wanted to let you know that I was sorry,” she said. ‘And I said ‘Ok.’ Look, it’s not my style to want to start a fight, but I have to stand up for myself at some point in time.’ Patrick also gave Logano a message that she believed he heard loud and clear based on how he treated her in Saturday’s practice. ‘I told him ‘If you see me in your mirrors, you can get me out of your mirrors or you can leave me there and one is more dangerous than the others,” she said. ‘That’s what I told him. So he pointed me by in practice before it was too late today. That was a good start.’(Associated Press)(10-26-2014)
