A day after finishing second in the All-Star Race and being critical of how Christopher Bell raced him for the win, Joey Logano told NBC Sports that how Bell drove him “wasn’t as bad as I thought it was.

Joey Logano had reasons to be irked in multiples in Sunday night’s NASCAR All-Star Race, from a pit-strategy call that didn’t quite pan out, an arbitrary late-race caution flag and a decisive, bruising pass from eventual winner Christopher Bell.

Joey Logano was frustrated with Christopher Bell after this past Sunday’s NASCAR All-Star Race at North Wilkesboro Speedway. A “pi--ed off” Logano accused Bell of running him into the wall to take the lead in the closing laps of the race.