The battle to the checkered flag in the NASCAR Cup Series race stretched until the very end between Joey Logano and Kyle Busch. And as they were fighting for the win, one couldn’t help but be reminded of the famous feud both of the drivers had a few years ago.

But the only possibility it might’ve happened would’ve been if they’d made contact, which they didn’t.

As for why they didn’t, well, they are pretty talented drivers. But also, another big factor in the equation, is the respect they have for each other, something which Joey Logano recently opened up about in an interview.

“We have all but one time,” Logano said about his history of racing dirty with Kyle Busch. “But outside of that, we’ve never really had a bunch of controversy around us. I can’t say we like each other. But we seem to have respect for each other’s abilities, and the way we race.”

“We both race each other hard, we’re not scared to bump each other a little bit, we rub doors a little, there’s gonna be a little contact there, but nothing that’s probably outside the line. And I think because of that we run each other hard, we don’t give each other slack,” he continued.

“But we race each other fairly clean.”

Joey Logano had fun battling with Kyle Busch in the last lap in St.Louis

After he successfully out-trumped Kyle Busch for the win, Joey Logano opened up on how he felt during the battle for the win in the inaugural Cup Series race at WWT Raceway.

“Racing for the lead like that with Kyle, one of the best,” Logano said.

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“It was a lot of fun. Crossing each other back and forth,” Logano added, before revealing that he knew the swap was coming, that just as he did to Busch, Busch will do it to him.

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