NASCAR champ Joey Logano gets car sick in street cars if somebody else is driving
- Joey Logano is one of the best racecar drivers in the world but is human off the track.
- Logano told Jeff Gluck he gets car sick if anybody else is driving a car.
Getting car sick is a perfectly normal thing, but if anybody would be immune to the ailment, you would think it would be somebody used to driving in circles at nearly 200 mph.
Not so.
Two-time NASCAR champion Joey Logano gets car sick just like the rest of us.
Logano made the admission on Jeff Gluck's "12 Questions" podcast for The Athletic.
Gluck asked Logano what he is like as a passenger in a street car, and he was quick to answer that he never is.
"I don't, I don't ride, I drive," Logano told Gluck. "I drive everywhere. I hate riding in the passenger seat ... I get car sick, for one, and I hate that. And this sounds so, but no one ever drives as good as me! There are only one or two people I am OK riding with, but 99% of the time, I drive, no matter what, all the time."
Logano noted that it doesn't matter if the other driver does it for a living, saying even when he does appearances and is offered a car service, he turns it down and rents a car instead.
This detail is reminiscent of the scene from Tom Cruise's NASCAR movie, "Days of Thunder," when the two rivals rent cars rather than share a car when forced to attend lunch together, albeit for a different reason.
Logano also explained that his car sickness is not just a passing thing. He gets it kinda bad.
"I get really sick," Logano said. "And then it's like you're down for like an hour, maybe longer."
Logano did clarify that he never gets sick driving a racecar because he is so "focused in."
It is unclear if that is also true when he is racing on the annual dirt-track race at Bristol. In 2022, Logano said NASCAR should remove the windshields from the cars for that race because it becomes hard to see with the flying mud. Getting "focused in" might be difficult when you can't see where you are going.