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Blame Goodyear for Joey Logano’s problems this year
By Reid Spencer Sporting News NASCAR Wire Service LOUDON, N.H.—You can’t blame Goodyear for trying to improve the product it brings to the racetrack—but Joey Logano might prefer a return to the tires the Sprint Cup Series ran last year. Buoyed by top-10 finishes in five of his last six Cup races in 2010, Logano entered 2011 with optimism. Then the wheels fell off. Logano finished outside the top 20 in his first five events of the season, and, … Read entire article »
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Kyle Busch outduels Logano for record 50th Nationwide win
By Reid Spencer Sporting News NASCAR Wire Service BRISTOL, Tenn.—At age 26, Kyle Busch made history in Friday night’s Food City 250 Nationwide Series race at Bristol Motor Speedway. In beating Joe Gibbs Racing teammate Joey Logano to the checkered flag in a near dead heat (.019 seconds), Busch won his 50th race in NASCAR’s Nationwide Series, breaking a tie with 52-year-old Mark Martin for the top spot on the career victory list. Behind Busch and Logano, Clint Bowyer … Read entire article »
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You miss the Chase? Blame Mother Nature
By Reid Spencer Sporting News NASCAR Wire Service LONG POND, Pa.—When it comes down to it, the drivers won’t be the ones who have the most to do with who qualifies for the wild-card spots in the Chase for the NASCAR Sprint Cup—and who doesn’t. Nor will it be the crew chiefs, engineers, pit crews, fabricators or the relative depth of the owners’ pockets. Like it or not, five races hence, Mother Nature will have as much to do … Read entire article »
Filed under: Sprint Cup
Joey Logano wins pole for Pocono Cup race
By Reid Spencer Sporting News NASCAR Wire Service LONG POND, Pa.—A ray of sunlight, a warming racetrack and a little sandbagging all helped Joey Logano claim the pole for Sunday’s Good Sam RV 500 at Pocono Raceway. After posting a lap at 172.055 mph (52.309 seconds) during Saturday morning’s time trials, Logano had to wait for 20 fellow Sprint Cup drivers to make their qualifying runs before he could claim the top spot for Sunday’s race at the … Read entire article »
Filed under: Sprint Cup
Logano aims to maintain momentum at Kentucky
By Jim Pedley Sporting News NASCAR Wire Service The leader in the Most Pressure To Perform Sweepstakes heading into Saturday night’s Quaker State 400 Sprint Cup race at Kentucky Speedway (the inaugural Cup race at the track) just might be Joey Logano. While the young Joe Gibbs Racing driver’s future may or may not be at stake, Chase for the NASCAR Sprint Cup chasing momentum surely is. … Read entire article »
Filed under: Sprint Cup
Joey Logano’s Nationwide win a big boost for driver
By Reid Spencer Sporting News NASCAR Wire Service DAYTONA BEACH, Fla.—Joey Logano didn’t lead Friday night’s Subway Jalapeno 250 until the final half mile, but that was all the 21-year-old driver of the No. 20 Toyota needed to notch his first victory at Daytona International Speedway. As the action in Turn 4 on the final lap unfolded behind him, Logano surged into the lead and held off a charge from Jason Leffler to win his first Nationwide Series race of the season and the ninth of his career. … Read entire article »
Filed under: Nationwide Series
Logano surprised to win pole at Infineon
By Reid Spencer Sporting News NASCAR Wire Service SONOMA, Calif.—Negotiating the right- and left-hand turns at Infineon Raceway like a veteran road-course racer, Joey Logano won the pole for Sunday’s Toyota/Save Mart 350 NASCAR Sprint Cup race. “I never looked at myself as a road-course racer,” said Logano, who added that he found speed in his car after some post-practice adjustments improved the handling substantially. The Coors Light Pole Award was the second for Logano, who posted a lap at 93.256 miles per hour and watched as the 12 drivers who followed him in Friday’s time trials failed to run faster. Jamie McMurray (93.223 mph) qualified second, and Paul Menard (93.176 mph) claimed the third starting position for Sunday’s race, the 16th of the season in the Cup series. … Read entire article »
Filed under: NASCAR
Last-minute sponsorship sends Logano to Nashville
By Lee Montgomery Sporting News NASCAR Wire Service Joey Logano and the No. 20 Joe Gibbs Racing team were going to skip Saturday’s Nashville 300 NASCAR Nationwide Series race at Nashville Superspeedway, despite Logano’s having two poles and a win there and the team leading the series’ owners points. But a sponsor joined the No. 20 for Nashville only recently, and the team decided to continue its run for the Nationwide owners championship. “That is huge, because this team has been running good all year long and to let the owners championship points lead slip away because we didn’t have sponsorship would have been tough to swallow,” Logano said. “Times are tough now and everyone is having trouble finding sponsorships, so to be able to … Read entire article »
Filed under: Nationwide Series
Late Accident Ends Busch’s Chances for Victory at Talladega
Kyle Busch was in the top-10 for much of Sunday’s Aaron’s 499 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series race at Talladega (Ala.) Superspeedway, but a late-race accident on the backstretch forced him to settle for a disappointing 35th-place finish. Talladega and its sister track, Daytona (Fla.) International Speedway, are the only two restrictor-plate tracks on the NASCAR schedule. At Talladega, as was the case in the season-opening Daytona 500, drivers had to align themselves in two-car drafts to make any headway toward the front of the field. The system creates a dicey game of bumper cars that sometimes leads to drivers involuntarily spinning out their drafting partners. Busch, driver of the No. 18 M&M’s Pretzel Toyota Camry for Joe Gibbs Racing (JGR), was a victim of that dicey game of bumper cars as his … Read entire article »
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