"Anytime a driver gets hurt is horrible" - Joey Logano leads NASCAR drivers' response to Erik Jones' injury

The safety of drivers in Next-Gen cars is always a topic of discussion in the NASCAR community. Two-time Cup Series Champion Joey Logano and two more NASCAR Cup Series drivers shared their response to Erik Jones' injury that took place at Talladega Superspeedway last Sunday (April 21).

The #43 Legacy Motor Club driver Erik Jones is set to miss Sunday's race at Dover International Speedway due to a spinal fracture he suffered in a crash at Talladega. Recently in an interview, drivers such as Joey Logano, Brad Keselowski, and Kyle Busch discussed the nature of the sport and talked about the unpleasant news of Jones' injury.

Team Penske driver Logano said (via Bob Pockrass on X):

"I have not seen the data to really understand exactly if everything has happened yet. It's been pretty early. Anytime a driver gets hurt is horrible. We do everything we can do to make sure it doesn't happen, whether that's with the car, whether that's with the seat location, the teams do, or whatever the driver can do to try to make this stuff better."

Logano added that such incidents serve as a reminder to drivers and their teams to keep track of safety measures.

"To get a reminder for all of us, because you get kind of comfortable in these things, which is weird to think. But you do. But every time something like this happens, it's an unfortunate situation. But it's usually some key learnings from it that get handed down throughout the rest of the sport. So not that I know any of those things yet. Look forward to learning to it. And I hope that Eric's back in action quickly," Joey Logano said.

RFK Racing driver Brad Keselowski shared a few words regarding this unfortunate news of Erik Jones and added that the cars can't be hundred percent safe. He said:

"I mean, it is a dangerous sport, but you hate to settle for that is the answer. If you settle for that, for the answer, the cars are still like they did. Look like they did in the 50s and 60s, right? So you want to continue to evolve. But I think you have to have some amount of discipline to respect that the cars are never going to be perfectly safe."

Another NASCAR Cup Series Champion, Kyle Busch, who drives a Chevy Camaro for Richard Childress Racing (RCR), shared the status of the crash he was in and gave another perspective to the wrecks in the races.

"Get the impact rates. I hit 90 Gs in the XFINITY car, and with all the things that happened in that one, breaking my foot, breaking my leg. But the rest of my extremities was fine. My core was fine. My neck was fine. Back shoulders. Everything was all good. So it's just the nature of that big of an impact. And your body withstanding it. And everybody's built different. I think everybody's cockpits are built different. And so it's just the nature of racing and the danger that's out there," Busch said.

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A brief look at Erik Jones' final stage crash at Talladega

Legacy Motor Club driver Erik Jones was a victim of the last stage chaos where he hit the outside wall of Turn 3 after contact with Bubba Wallace's car at Talladega Superspeedway last weekend.

The #43 Toyota driver suffered a compression fracture in his lower vertebra and will be replaced by debutant Corey Heim at the Wurth 400 at Dover International Speedway this Sunday.

After finishing 35th at Talladega, Jones' #43 Toyota currently sits at the 20th spot in the Cup Series standings after the first 10 races of the season. He only has one top-10 finish to his name so far this season, which came in the opening weekend in Daytona.