By: Ashley McCubbin

Chase Elliott lost another event in the final laps, but this time it wasn’t at the hands of another competitor or his crew chief. Instead, it was on his shoulders.

Following a late-race restart, Elliott would challenge Joey Logano for the lead, getting alongside him off of turn two with a slight brush of contact. The pair would head into the following corner, with the No. 9 NAPA Chevrolet sliding up into the No. 22 Ford Mustang, with Logano making contact the wall. Essentially, he took both of them out of contention – handing the victory over to Brad Keselowski.

“Oh, just going for the win, you know, trying to get a run underneath and got really loose-in,” Elliott said. “I don’t know if I had a tire going down or if I just got loose on entry. But, as soon as I turned off the wall, I had zero chance of making it. I’ll certainly take the blame. I don’t think so, I just got loose and got up into him. Yeah, you know, I feel like that was my shot. He was really good on the short run and I feel like I had to keep him behind me right there in order to win the race with only three or four laps to go. I hate we both wrecked. But you can’t go back in time now.”

Logano, meanwhile, was not only left frustrated with the incident on track, but with Elliott’s behavior afterwards. Once they returned to pit road following the event, Logano eventually made his way down to pay the Hendrick Motorsports competitor a visit to discuss the contact.

“He wrecked me.  He got loose underneath me,” Logano told the media. “The part that’s frustrating is that afterwards a simple apology — like be a man and come up to someone and say, ‘Hey, my bad.’  But I had to force an apology, which, to me, is childish.  Anyways, man, we had a good recovery with our Autotrader Mustang and had a shot to win.  That’s all you can hope for.  I passed him clean.  It’s hard racing at the end, I get that.  It’s hard racing, but, golly, man, be a man and take the hit when you’re done with it.”

Logano would then go on Instagram following the event, depicting the encounter between the pair including the fact that Elliott said the words, “You’ve done it before.”

Elliott’s reference to Logano’s history goes lengthy, as the Team Penske competitor has ruffled the feathers of several others over the last couple years, including Matt Kenseth, Tony Stewart, and Kyle Busch.

Most recently, he and Denny Hamlin clashed together at Martinsville Speedway last year. The pair traded paint late in the event, before meeting together on pit road. Logano would give Hamlin a light shove in the process, with Hamlin ensuing an all-out brawl that followed when Logano tried to walk away afterwards.

Elliott isn’t no stranger to ruffled feathers, either, having been involved in incidents with Hamlin and most recently Kyle Busch at Darlington Raceway last week.

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