NASCAR Fans Call Out “Hypocrite” Joey Logano For Whining About Christopher Bell Racing Him Hard For The Win During The All-Star Race

Pot, meet kettle…

The 2025 NASCAR All-Star Race is in the books, with Christopher Bell taking home the win (and the $1 million prize) last night at North Wilkesboro Speedway in what turned out to be one of the best short track races we’ve seen during the Next Gen era in the Cup Series.

Aside from the gimmicks like the promoter’s caution (which ended up coming at a time when there was probably going to be a caution anyway after Kyle Larson wrecked), there was a little bit of everything. You had good racing, passes for the lead, teams on different tire strategies…overall, it was a solid race and one that should have everyone at NASCAR considering a points race for North Wilkesboro.

Joey Logano ended up leading much of the race, with the #22 Team Penske car pacing the field for 139 of the 250 laps. But when the promoter’s caution fell on lap 217 (literally, Michael Waltrip ended up dropping the yellow flag onto the track as he was waving it), Logano stayed out on old tires while Christopher Bell brought his #20 Joe Gibbs Chevrolet onto the pit road for two fresh right side tires.

When the race went back to green flag racing, Bell restarted in 6th, the first car on fresh tires. And he quickly made his way through the field, trying in vain to get around Logano on the outside as the #22 blocked him and ran him up the track.

But with 10 laps to go, Bell managed to get on the inside of Logano. And while Logano tried to hold Bell to the bottom of the track, the #20 car was finally able to run Logano up to the top of the track and get by him for what would ultimately be the race win.

It was Bell’s first win in the All-Star Race, but afterwards Logano wasn’t happy with the move and criticized Bell for…racing him too hard, I guess?

“He kinda just ran me up in the wall. If I coulda got to him he was going around after a move like that. I just couldn’t get back to him.”

And he also blasted NASCAR for their “gimmick” promoter’s caution (although it seemed like a caution was going to come out anyway for Larson).

For his part, Bell wasn’t sure why Logano was upset with the move:

“Joey was frustrated? He was frustrated? That is interesting. I genuinely would not have guessed that…

I had got to him a couple times before, and he made it very difficult on me, as he should. And I got my run and I took the moment, as I should. I don’t think that I did anything that Joey has not done, and I’ve seen Joey do much worse. So we will continue on.”

Of course Bell is spot on there: Joey Logano seems to be a guy who has no problem racing others hard and doing whatever it takes to win, but when somebody like Bell makes a (totally clean) pass for the win he’s upset about it? Can’t really have it both ways. I mean, just a few laps earlier in the race Logano pulled pretty much the same move on Bell to keep from getting passed for the lead.

And NASCAR fans were overwhelmingly on Bell’s side after Logano’s threat, pointing out the hypocrisy in Joey complaining about somebody racing him hard:

I just can’t like Logano at all. He is a piece. He runs people up the track all the time and races them rough. Bell raced him clean. Need some tissues for those tears. pic.twitter.com/4G0ZWM5Hdl

— Billy Carr (@WilllCarr15) May 19, 2025

Yeah, Logano might wanna look in the mirror before he decides to try to pay Christopher Bell back. Have a feeling a lot of drivers would owe Joey one too if that’s his definition of a dirty move.