TOM LOGANO NEEDS TO STEP BACK
When Joey Logano exited his car after Sunday’s Pocono Cup race he wanted to confront Kevin Harvick. Their on-track incident moments before angered Logano. The scene quickly filled with Richard Childress Racing crewmembers, a Joe Gibbs crewmember, the media, and Tom Logano.
Guess which one didn’t belong?
Now before I go any further let me state that I am a father. I understand fully a parent’s instinct to protect his children. Any Dad worth his salt realizes that his top priority is to stand between his child and harm.
But he needs to realize where getting involved is doing more harm than good.
The Joe Gibbs team member that was first to the Logano car appeared to be trying to calm his driver down. Tom Logano arrived shortly thereafter and moved the crewmember away from his son. The older Logano’s gestures indicated he was also angered and was encouraging son Joey to head towards Harvick. Joey seemed to already have that in mind.
The bump and spin during the race, Joey Logano’s temper, the RCR crewmembers surrounding Harvick, and even Logano’s verbal shots at Harvick saying “his wife wears the firesuit in the family” all seem part of a natural path during the emotional and heated conclusion to the race.
Daddy jumping into his son’s fight is not.
There comes a time when a Mom or Dad has to let go. As the younger Logano was groomed through Legends cars and entering into stock cars at a youthful point, he needed parental assistance. He needed it financially and emotionally.
Logano’s reputation grew long before he signed with Joe Gibbs Racing. Everyone who followed this sport knew Logano had been coming for at least seven or eight years. Mark Martin touted his talent as early as 2003. All the training and coaching given by Tom Logano was to get his son to this level. But once here he needs to let go.
When any driver reaches the Cup level he should only need to learn about the Cup level. You don’t learn how to race here you better already know how. That includes fighting for yourself.
Tom Logano wants his son to be a man and he needs to give Joey the opportunity to be one. That includes driving the car, making his own decisions, enjoying the smart moves and making his own mistakes. Whatever the outcome, the responsibility of his actions falls alone on Joey Logano’s shoulders.
If Joey Logano is man enough to drive the Cup circuit every week, then he is man enough to fight his own battles. Without Dad.
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Tom Logano is an absolute "Freak." Unfortunately, I live next door to him and his alcoholic wife who harass me constantly. I'm a single mom of two boys who happens to have boxers as pets. They are indoor dogs that belong to my young sons and yes they do have to go out to their business. As all dogs do, they will bark when they are outside in MY YARD for 10 or so minutes. Not to mention there are other dogs in our neighborhood that bark way past 12am every single night, but I have learned to tune it out. So, tonight he left me a horrible voicemail threatening me if I allowed my dogs to bark while he eats his supper outside. It’s okay if his mutt comes over to my yard to poop, which is a common occurrence. It’s also okay if his son races his car around the neighborhood going over 50 miles while kids are walking in the neighborhood. The reason for this….by damn he is Tom Logano! So, to really show his maturity, he takes his trailer and parks it in the yard b/t our homes.
Tom Logano's wife (no clue what her name is) came over at 10:30pm to my house, who I've never met before ringing the door bell hysterically waking my children up on a school night. She looked so rough that I thought she was a victim of violent crime. Little did I know that is her everyday appearance. She immediately started screaming at me stating that her child had been chased by a dog and he was crying from fear. It startled me so bad to think that one of my dogs would have even hurt a small child. Then I learned the child she was referencing was a 19 year NASCAR driver. Are you kidding me....my 4 year sticks his hand in their mouths to retrieve toys and then bops them on the head with it.
They are nothing but low class trash living off their son's short lived career giving NASCAR a bad name. Listen to the following voicemail from him to see what I go through. Feel free to donate any of Kevin Harvick's No. 29 memorabilia since as he stated I will soon be the proud neighbor of a "fucking pink fence."
I told him that I'm not fond of the underage drinking parties his kids throw screaming until after 2:00am waking my family up in the middle of the night, but that doesn't seem to matter to him. His comment was "I live in a 2 million dollar house." I'm sorry I'm not as special as Tom Logano since I can only afford to live in a 1.7 million dollar home as a single mom supporting two young kids on my own who teaches them to be independent, well-rounded and respectable.
Can someone tell him to get a life?