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NASCAR Sprint-Cup Series
CUP: Logano Deserved Victory
Even though Joey Logano’s first NASCAR Sprint Cup victory came in a rain-shortened race, it still counts...
Jim Pedley  | http://www.RacinToday.com  |  Posted June 29, 2009   Charlotte, NC
Winner of the LENOX Industrial Tools 301 at New Hampshire Motor Speedway, Joey Logano with "Perrywinkle" the Loudon Lobster. (Photo: LAT Photographic)

You can bet that in some circles, the sour talk about the method by which Joey Logano got his first Sprint Cup victory started long before the rain stopped at New Hampshire Motor Speedway on Sunday.

You can bet phrases like “fuel mileage win” and “freakish luck” and “asterisk-mark ending” were being issued far and wide in a good old New England blather-o-rama.

But you can also bet that virtually none of those phrases were coming out of the mouths of Logano’s peers.

That’s because NASCAR drivers — or drivers in any other professional racing series, for that matter — know there is no such thing as a tainted victory in their sport. They know that in big-time auto racing, luck and circumstance play a role in the outcome of virtually every, single finish.

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That explains the actions of “losing” drivers in the minutes following the decision not to restart Sunday’s race and why Logano’s victory was massively popular in the New Hampshire infield.

After Logano, the 19-year-old rookie who has been subjected to the kind of dissecting pressure that no 19-year-old should ever be subjected to, won the Lenox Industrial Tool 301, Jeff Gordon poked his head into Logano’s car.

Gordon, the winner of 82 races and four Cup championships told Logano, “It doesn’t matter how you win them.”

Logano got his first Cup victory, became the series’ youngest winner and did it in an unconventional manner.



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