Sep
Even if Joey Logano didn’t win all three races at Darlington in 2022, his excellent performance on Sunday was good enough to put him to the top of the rankings.
Logano did well to prevent problems in a race where several playoff participants had bad luck.
Of course, he still had his moments, like approaching Christopher Bell at his door as they were leaving Turn 2. But all in all, the No. 22 Team Penske Ford had a successful day.
He qualified first and led 64 laps his route to finishing fourth, earning some stage points along the way.
“It’s a solid day but a missed opportunity is probably where I would put it,” said Logano, who won at Darlington earlier this year. “With so many others having trouble, every time you come to the Southern 500, especially in the playoffs, you’ve just got to survive and you get a solid finish. That’s what we were able to do, finish fourth after so many teams had issues.
Nevertheless, Logano suffered some of his own difficulties as he frequently lost track position over the grueling 500-mile race.
“We had plenty of our own issues, too,” he added. “We gave up track position a couple times and then we got caught with that caution and lost track position fairly late in the race, and then we just battled hard. It’s really hard to come up through the field here. It’s really hard to pass and was able to kind of battle back and get a top five out of it, which is OK.
Despite placing as high as second in the 2018 Southern 500, Logano has never taken home the prized trophy.
“I mean, you’ve got to be happy about it because we scored a lot of points and that’s what it’s all about here in the first round, but also a missed opportunity to win the Southern 500 and I really want that one,” he confessed. “That one stings a little bit because I think we were better than the cars in front of us if we had the air. If we were able to stay towards the front we could tune to cleaner air, instead of going in the back and trying to tune to dirty air. We just set ourselves back too far.”
After the first of three races in the Round of 16, he is currently in first place, but even more significantly, he is 38 points clear of the elimination zone.
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