CONCORD, N.C. -- Greg Biffle expressed remorse Thursday for running Joey Logano into the wall during last Saturday's Nationwide race at Auto Club Speedway in California.

But he also expressed disappointment in the way the 19-year-old Logano has raced him of late, and said pointedly that the young driver has much to learn about proper driver etiquette on and off the race track.

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I didn't run him into the fence on purpose. I just meant to put a little squeeze on him like he did to me at Kansas.

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-- GREG BIFFLE

Despite late contact with Biffle and the outside wall, Logano won his second consecutive Nationwide race at California. He has won five of 19 Nationwide starts he's made this season -- but Biffle obviously has a problem with the way Logano, who is running a part-time Nationwide schedule while running a full-time Cup schedule for the first time, has been conducting his business at the track.

"I probably shouldn't have run Joey out of room, or run him so tight at the end of the straightaway at California down the backstretch," Biffle admitted. "It's really bumpy up there and I watched the video on it. I squeezed him up and it looked like he hit the fence and then came back down and hit the side of me.

"But the week prior at Kansas, he drove down in the corner three-wide, smashed my fender in and smashed me against the guy on the outside of me. Then he drove off and won the race. We were catching the No. 18 car and felt like we had a car to win with, and I fell back and finished fifth. I could barely hang on until the end of the race, and didn't have a pit stop to come in and fix my car."

Biffle said he talked with Logano after that race, but added that their chat produced no tangible results that he could see.

"I talked to Joey after the race and I said, 'What's most disappointing for me is to race a young guy like yourself who has a lot of talent and a lot of ability and something like that goes on on the race track, and you don't come over and say anything to a guy,'" Biffle said. (Continued)