Texas Motor Speedway hosts the eighth of the 10 playoff races on the Monster Energy Cup Series and this Sunday I expect a battle.
I wonder if we can see some bumping and moving at TMS like we saw at the end of the Martinsville race between Joey Logano and Martin Truex, Jr.
TMS is a mile and a half track, unlike the short track of Martinsville. So, maybe we won't have any rubbing at the finish line.
Logano won the Martinsville race and told me on my NBC Sports Radio show, "I gave him the old bump-and-run in the end. To some people it was OK and to some it wasn't. That's up to everybody to decide, but to me, in my mind, I felt it was OK. I would have been expecting it if I was the leader at that moment with so much on the line and racing for a championship."
Truex, Jr. is the defending NASCAR Cup champion and vowed Logano's No. 22 Ford would not win the championship. His crew chief was ticked off, as he should have been, "It's tough to take," Cole Pearn told NBCSN. "Martin did a good job of racing him clean, worked him over and eventually got him. I guess we shouldn't have cleared him (out of Turn 2) and given him the chance. Not surprised coming from (Logano), that's kind of how he drives. Whatever, that's his choice to make. I guess that's short track racing. A crappy way to have it being that close and working so hard for this team."
The No. 78 Toyota of Truex, Jr. will have to do something it's never done -- win at Texas on Sunday.
The 22 will get a chance to race for the Championship in Miami. Click here to listen to our conversation.
