NASCAR News: Joey Logano admits fault in huge Cup Series wreck at Phoenix

Joey Logano has apologized for his part in a huge wreck at Phoenix on Sunday afternoon.

The driver of the No. 22 got into Ross Chastain at a restart in the middle of the NASCAR Cup Series race, turning him up the track and right into Anthony Alfredo and Austin Cindric.

That trio wrecked hard, with Cindric getting hard into the outside wall and Alfredo (filling in for Alex Bowman in the No. 48) suffering a couple of heavy bangs of his own.

Chastain finished the race 26 laps down, while Cindric and Alfredo's races ended then and there – with Logano himself getting into a race-ending wreck some laps later at a track which has historically been good to him.

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'Rough day' for Logano

He apologized for the restart wreck with Chastain, saying after being released from the infield care center: "I didn't mean to get Ross there on the restart. I had a run and he kind of went down to the bottom with me and gosh, it's been a rough day. We had a good Mustang, probably a top three or four car, and it just really hurts to be here."

On the moment that ended his own race, he added: "I'm not really 100% sure what happened there. I guess I didn't realize we were three-wide, but it still seemed like there was some room there. Just ran out of space into [Turn] 1. Just seemed like racing, I guess. It is what it is."

Cindric, who sits 30th in points after a messy start to the year, said of the wreck: “A whole lot of cars going right when the cars need to be going left. It’s just a real shame. We had a really fast Ford Mustang.

"We got points in both stages and were in desperate need of a race finish without a crash and we did not get that today. It’s a shame because I felt like we did all the right things throughout the afternoon, so that’s racing. I’m not discouraged by any means. It’s a long season. My team has brought me four fast race cars to start the year.”