{"id":14089,"date":"2014-07-14T12:58:50","date_gmt":"2014-07-14T16:58:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/?p=14089"},"modified":"2014-07-14T12:58:50","modified_gmt":"2014-07-14T16:58:50","slug":"joey-logano-criticizes-72-year-old-morgan-shepherd-following-wreck","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/2014\/07\/14\/joey-logano-criticizes-72-year-old-morgan-shepherd-following-wreck\/","title":{"rendered":"Joey Logano criticizes 72-year-old Morgan Shepherd following wreck"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/files\/2014\/07\/loganoshephard.jpg\" alt=\"loganoshephard\" width=\"594\" height=\"395\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-14090\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/files\/2014\/07\/loganoshephard.jpg 594w, https:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/files\/2014\/07\/loganoshephard-300x199.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 594px) 100vw, 594px\" \/><br \/>\nDespite being in a backup car, Joey Logano worked his way to the front of the field in Sunday&#8217;s Camping World RV Sales 301 at New Hampshire Motor Speedway.<\/p>\n<p>All of Logano&#8217;s hard work was for naught as the slower car of Morgan Shepherd made contact with him ending his chances of victory at the 1.058 mile Loudon track.<\/p>\n<p>Following the wreck Logano had some harsh words for the veteran Shephard.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Slowest car on the race track took us out. Go figure,&#8221; Logano said. &#8220;We had a pretty good Auto Trader Ford, just doing what we could to hang in there. We were running second, Brad was really, really fast &#8230; Felt like we could have had a Penske one-two again, and we get taken out by the slowest car.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/UH3T-m6ArjU\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I feel like there should be a driving test before you get out in a Cup car to make sure you know how to drive before you drive one,&#8221; Logano said. &#8220;I don&#8217;t know. I guess there isn&#8217;t.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>NASCAR later deemed the incident as just racing, something Logano said was not necessarily the sports fault.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s not NASCAR&#8217;s fault he slid up and is the slowest car on the track,&#8221; he said. &#8220;If you can&#8217;t control your stuff, don&#8217;t even be out there. If you&#8217;re 10 laps down, what are you even doing?&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>Once a fixture in the Sprint Cup Series, Shepherd now is a part-time driver. Anytime he Shepherd gets behind the wheel of a Sprint Cup car he breaks his own record for oldest driver in Series history. He is a four time winner in the sport.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Despite being in a backup car, Joey Logano worked his way to the front of the field in Sunday&#8217;s Camping World RV Sales 301 at New Hampshire Motor Speedway. All of Logano&#8217;s hard work was for naught as the slower car of Morgan Shepherd made contact with him ending his chances of victory at the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":14090,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,788],"tags":[326,464,708],"coauthors":[675],"class_list":{"0":"post-14089","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cup-series","8":"category-news","9":"tag-joey-logano","10":"tag-morgan-shepherd","11":"tag-nascar"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14089","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14089"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14089\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14090"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14089"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14089"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14089"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=14089"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}