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For Team Penske’s Joey Logano, Sunday had its share of highs and lows.
At Richmond Raceway, Logano surged through the field after starting 17th.
On Lap 81, he overtook Ross Chastain at the beginning of the second race to take the lead for the first time. He had total command after that.
Logano continued to lead 222 of the subsequent 400 laps, but unexpectedly came in sixth. He has only ever led so many circuits (or more) in a single race three other times in his profession.
Despite his success on Sunday, something happened in the last stretch of the race, and he eventually lost the lead to final victor Kevin Harvick with little over 65 laps remaining.
What exactly went wrong with the Ford Mustang No. 22?
“Yeah, I think just as the sun went down and the track cooled off, (we) lost some turn on our car,” explained Logano. “Kevin (Harvick) and some others got a lot better the last couple of runs in the race. When it was hot and slick, that was probably our strength with the Shell Pennzoil Mustang. We had good turn and then once it cooled off we lost the turn but still weren’t real good on the exits.
“Then you start playing defense and running too hard. It was a downhill slope from there. I was hoping for a late race caution, that was our only prayer at the end there. Overall we got a stage win and playoff points and that is something to be proud of. It stinks when you say we led 222 laps but not the right one.”
In order to move up to second in the playoff rankings, Logano was aiming for his third win of the year. Even yet, running so well with the postseason just around the corner is promising.
“It means we are executing really well throughout the race and able to get something out of a race when we don’t have a fast enough car,” he said post-race. “When you have days like today when you have a fast enough car, you want to capitalize. We did as far as playoff points and a stage win but not enough at the end of the race. We need these ones to be race wins instead of just stage wins but I feel like we are starting to come into our own here and getting a little more solid and situated more in the top five than we have been. I am proud of that. We just have to keep that going.”
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