Joey Logano explains what caused flat tire at Michigan

“I’m sure we just got aggressive,” Logano told Bob Pockrass of FOX Sports. “There’s speed down there and the whole field knows it and that’s why there’s so many. I went down there after a green flag stop. Yellows, you have an opportunity to swerve your tires and build a little heat without all the load and here, there’s so much load through the corners and when you’re on low air on a green flag stop and you’re riding pretty rough on some stiff springs or unlimiters, whatever it may be, you’re just shocking the tire a lot and it’s just gonna stress it.

“So, unfortunately, we were in the box of there’s speed and low air. It’s risk versus reward and how fast do you wanna go, how much risk are you willing to take. Just one of those racing things.”

Joey Logano has disappointing finish at Michigan after flat tire

Logano’s DNF is his second in the last three races (he finished P34 at Indianapolis). Though 15th in the points standings, Logano remains playoff bound courtesy of his win at Nashville in June. Logano felt he could’ve scored a quality finish if not for the tire mishap.

“We had that right rear tire go flat right before that, which put us back there down a lap and then I think [Kyle Larson] just spun out in front of me and kind of caused a big wad and a Daytona-type crash. There was nowhere to really go,” Logano said, via Dustin Long of NBC Sports. “I couldn’t steer it left, so I just committed to maybe if I could slow it down enough, I could center punch it, and it wouldn’t be that bad. That was my only option there.

“Unfortunately, we got knocked out a little early. We were fighting for probably a top 10. We weren’t that great, if there were more wrecks we could maybe have ended up with a top-five but we will move on.”