{"id":99747,"date":"2025-08-27T02:16:08","date_gmt":"2025-08-27T02:16:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/99747\/"},"modified":"2025-08-27T02:16:08","modified_gmt":"2025-08-27T02:16:08","slug":"bubba-wallaces-spotter-exposes-nascar-radio-verdict-on-joey-logano-motorsport-sports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/99747\/","title":{"rendered":"Bubba Wallace’s spotter exposes NASCAR radio verdict on Joey Logano – Motorsport – Sports"},"content":{"rendered":"

NASCAR\u2019s attempt to improve the channels of communication between crew chiefs, spotters, and race control allegedly led to a cuss-laden rant directed at Joey Logano<\/a> being overheard by teams during Ryan Blaney\u2019s win in the Coke Zero Sugar 400<\/a> at Daytona.<\/p>\n

Leading the way with just 13 laps remaining, Team Penske\u2019s Logano appeared poised to secure his second Cup Series win<\/a> of the season under the lights in Daytona, until disaster struck, with the 35-year-old spinning on the home straight. Despite his best efforts, Logano wound up getting his No. 22 Ford stuck in the grass, forcing NASCAR officials to put the race under caution.\u00a0<\/p>\n

This seems to have frustrated NASCAR<\/a> bosses, as revealed by Bubba Wallace<\/a>\u2019s 23XI Racing spotter, Freddie Kraft, on the ‘Door Bumper Clear<\/a>‘ podcast. He explained that they now have access to \u201ca new device that we use to scan race control for the spotters,\u201d going on to say the audio \u201cis clear as day,\u201d adding that \u201cIt sounds like (race control\u2019s) Jusan [Hamilton] is sitting next to you talking to you,\u201d as per On3<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s great. The other officials don\u2019t have it, like on the racetrack, whoever\u2019s on pit road or some of the clean-up trucks, they don\u2019t have the same thing, so it sounds like your normal radio. But like when it\u2019s Jusan on the same system that you\u2019re on, it sounds amazing.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe problem with it is you can also hear; it\u2019s so good that you can also hear some of the stuff that\u2019s going on behind Jusan. And when Logano spun and he kind of drove back up onto the racetrack, you could hear some people in the background that were not very happy with him. And used some choice words I can\u2019t repeat because we have sensors on these shows sometimes.\u201d<\/p>\n

Likely not the type of clarity NASCAR officials were hoping to achieve with the introduction of this new technology, Kraft went on to explain that the purpose behind the switch to this device came about out of a desire to make communicating the throwing of caution flags clearer, following issues with the NASCAR-issued radios.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019ve had issues hearing caution flags,\u201d Kraft said. \u201cI don\u2019t know what it is, when they hit the button and they key up to say, \u2018put it out,\u2019 something gets overlapped where you don\u2019t hear \u2018put it out.\u2019 So the yellow\u2019s out and you don\u2019t know it.<\/p>\n

\u201cSo we\u2019ve been trying to come up with something different to fix that and this is the next step in that process. But it\u2019s clear as day and maybe it\u2019s a little too clear.\u201d<\/p>\n

As for the caution in question, while frustrating for officials hoping for an uninterrupted end to the race, it was likely even more so for Logano, who wound up down in 27th.\u00a0<\/p>\n

DON’T MISS…<\/p>\n

\u201cThe car was loose and Erik\u2019s (Jones) running hard, trying to make the Playoffs, and his run came at the wrong time and [he] tried pushing me as we flattened out and around I went,\u201d Logano told reporters after the race, via Frontstretch<\/a>.<\/p>\n

He went on to say the timing of Jones\u2019 push in the No. 43 Legacy Motor Club Toyota was \u201ca little bit soon,\u201d going on to say, \u201cHe had tried doing that in the middle of the corner, so when I covered that, obviously that brought him close and he wasn\u2019t going to lift and bail out of that. So, just hard racing at the end, I really can\u2019t get too upset, kind of understand it, just sucks to be on that end of it.\u201d<\/p>\n

The final race of the regular season, both Logano and Brickyard 400 winner Wallace<\/a>\u2019s focus will now turn to Darlington Raceway for the Cook Out Southern 500 on Sunday for the Round of 16 opener. The same can\u2019t be said for Jones, however, after he failed to win at Daytona, knocking him out of Playoff contention.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NASCAR\u2019s attempt to improve the channels of communication between crew chiefs, spotters, and race control allegedly led to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":99748,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[446],"tags":[2331,49,48,57835,5793,2332,634,57834,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-99747","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nascar","8":"tag-bubba-wallace","9":"tag-ca","10":"tag-canada","11":"tag-freddie-kraft","12":"tag-joey-logano","13":"tag-motorsport-section","14":"tag-nascar","15":"tag-nascar-communication-issues","16":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99747","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=99747"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99747\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/99748"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=99747"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=99747"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=99747"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}