Dale Earnhardt Jr. pulls no punches on Ross Chastain, Joey Logano, Austin Cindric: ‘He really stepped on his d*ck’

The Chicago street race had more than a few contentious moments over the weekend. But the most contentious might have been an on-track dust-up between Joey Logano and Ross Chastain.

Logano was dumped in Turn 2 by Chastain, moments after Chastain had been pushed into the tire barrier by a pile of cars behind him. Chastain, the driver of the No. 1 car, seemed to think Logano, the No. 22, was at fault, which wasn’t the case.

Instead, it was Austin Cindric who came in too hot to Turn 1 and caused the chain reaction. Dale Earnhardt Jr. weighed in on the whole thing this week on the Dale Jr. Download.

“Ross Chastain I guess destroyed Logano and (Ricky) Stenhouse and now I bet Ross feels pretty crummy having seen a replay of how that all went down,” Earnhardt said. “F*cking hilarious. The 2 is Cindric. I love this guy, he’s a funny guy. But he totally stepped on his d*ck right there.

“And we played the replay and the car, he’s hauling ass into Turn 1 and the rear tires are locked up. And it was just like Kyle Busch at the wet in Mexico but there wasn’t no excuse. That car’s going doh doh doh doh doh and he’s like, ‘Oh sh*t!’ And nobody in front has any idea what’s coming.”

What was coming turned out to be some instant retaliation targeting Joey Logano. For his part, Logano was floored that he ended up spun around after it all.

“So Ross is the one, the domino at the end of the line that gets knocked into the wall,” Earnhardt explained. “And it all happened so fast. And I was like, ‘Oh sh*t, Ross is wrecked.’ I didn’t pick up on he bounces off the wall and just grabs the gear and keeps going. Goes down into the corner and dumps the 22.

“I saw the 22 wreck and I saw Ross wreck him, but it was just, I don’t know, man. I was sitting there watching this and then when it all got finished and we get another half a lap into the race, I’m like Ross is seventh. He came out of that completely fine. The most Ross Chastain thing ever is for him to go down into Turn 1, get bowled into the barrier, bounce off, wreck a couple guys, come out of Turn 2 still in the top 10.”

Joey Logano, of course, was heated. He instantly blasted Chastain over his team’s radio, accusing him of retaliating with no idea what had actually happened in the first place.

It would even lead to a contentious meeting on pit road after the race. Logano got in Chastain’s face and gave him a piece of his mind. Then he turned to the press.

Logano called for NASCAR to fine Chastain after the driver of the No. 1 car reportedly admitted to Joey Logano that he had wrecked him intentionally. Earnhardt doesn’t think that whole public show had much sway.

“It’s kind of like the tree falling in the woods,” Earnhardt said. “It makes a sound but if nobody’s there to hear it does it make a sound? Ross would have to (admit it) publicly, Joey. And Joey knows that. But Joey doesn’t really want him fined.

“Joey just needed a reason to publicly say he admitted wrecking me. Joey just wants you to know, Joey just wants us to know that Ross admitted to doing it. Joey doesn’t care if he gets fined. But Joey just wants us to know that Ross came up to him personally and admitted it. And somehow that might make Joey feel better about it.”