Joey Logano fires back at Chipper Jones over criticism for Talladega tirade about Austin Cindric

The Joey Logano–Chipper Jones back-and-forth started after Sunday’s Jack Link’s 500 at Talladega Superspeedway. Jones, the Atlanta Braves legend and Baseball Hall of Famer, criticized Logano for his radio tirade directed at Team Penske teammate Austin Cindric.

Logano responded Tuesday during an appearance on SiriusXM NASCAR Radio. The three-time NASCAR Cup Series champion said he doesn’t care about Jones’ criticism: “Has Chipper Jones ever driven a racecar at Talladega? That would be my first question. I’m pretty certain he hasn’t.”

Coming to the end of Stage 2, multiple drivers and teams were vying for the stage win. Logano lost out to Bubba Wallace. It all happened after Cindric had to check up while trying to push Logano, who wasn’t happy afterwards: “Way to go Austin, way to go, you dumb fu*k! Way to fu*king go. What a stupid sh*t. You just gave it to him. Gave a Toyota a stage win. Nice job. Way to go. What a dumbass. Put that in the book again.”

That prompted a post from Jones on social media. Jones congratulated Cindric on his win and took a shot at Logano.

Congrats to @AustinCindric on his @TALLADEGA win. Good teammates are hard to come by, Boss! Remember that one of urs MFed u on national tv, when in all actuality, u did everything possible to keep from wrecking him. Hate to be #dueces in the ‘team’ meeting on Monday. Some people…

— Chipper Jones (@RealCJ10) April 27, 2025

Joey Logano: Chipper Jones’ opinion does not matter

Logano is an experienced, Championship-winning driver. Jones is one of the greatest third basemen of all-time. Logano believes Jones should stay in his lane.

“That’s like me saying something about baseball. I know nothing about baseball. That’s like me saying something that he did something in baseball that was wrong. That doesn’t matter,” Logano said. “You care about what people say, their opinion, if you really know them and they know you and they understand the scenario and the situation. Everyone is going to have their opinion on how they see things from the outside.

“No one else, nobody, Chipper Jones, no race fans, nobody is in the room when we come up with how we’re going to race at superspeedways except the drivers, the team principals at Penske and the crew chiefs. That is it. That’s the only opinions that matter. The only ones. So, everyone can go off and talk about whatever they want. They don’t know the situation. They don’t know everything that goes into it, so it doesn’t matter what they say, and that’s probably why I never saw or really care about it after you tell me right now.

“Chipper Jones, he seems like a cool dude, he’s done a lot, right? He’s a pretty popular, good baseball player, but he’s not a race car driver, and I know he wasn’t in the room with us when we set in place the way things are supposed to go. You would think somebody that has been in professional sports and has been in meetings like that would probably take a step back and say, ‘Man, there’s probably more to the story here than what there is.’ I’m surprised it went that way. Maybe he was just bored. I don’t know what his situation is. I tell you I don’t care.”