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NNS: Logano Stays On Roll
Joey Logano holds off James Buescher for fifth Nationwide win of season…
Joey Logano is working on the Man of the Year award in the Nationwide Series.
Logano held off James Buescher during some tight racing over the closing miles and won Saturday’s Alliance Truck Parts 250 Nationwide race at Michigan International Speedway.
The victory is Logano’s fifth of the season in NASCAR’s No. 2 series.
“This team has been on a roll lately,” Logano said. “We’ve just got to keep it going. We’re excited about winning. It’s been a lot of fun lately.”
Logano had the strongest car in the race’s final laps, but he had a final-lap challenge from Buescher.
Buescher dropped low in the first turn to move to Logano’s inside, but Logano was able to stay in front on the outside and won the race relatively easily.
“I know what he was doing,” Logano said of Buescher. “He was waiting until the end to try to make the pass. He had a good run into one. I saw him try to dive-bomb me. I started to block, but I decided to stay up there and was able to make it work.”
Buescher said his car was a touch unstable. “We just didn’t have all the speed we needed in the center of the corner,” he said. “I thought I could get Joey on the last lap. I peeked to the inside, but when I got down on the flatter part of the banking it got loose.”
Following the two leaders at the finish were Kurt Busch and Cole Whitt.
The race’s final restart came with four laps to go and with Logano, Buescher, Austin Dillon and Whitt in the top four.
The finish of the race was delayed by a fiery crash involving Josh Richards and Jamie Dick. NASCAR red-flagged the event while the crash area was cleared.
The day was an adventurous one for Danica Patrick, who spun three times, with two of the accidents also involving Brad Sweet.
Her final spin came with 13 laps to go as she and Sweet raced for 14th position. They collided in the middle of the track, causing major right-side damage to Patrick’s car.
She had survived two earlier spins to stay in the top 15.
Earlier, Patrick had lost control of her car as Dillon passed her on the inside. Patrick’s slide brought out the caution in the race’s closing laps as Logano passed Elliott Sadler for the lead.
The green flag flew with 18 laps to go with Logano and Sadler leading Paul Menard and Busch.
The second Patrick-Sweet caution slowed the race with 13 laps to go and with Logano holding off Menard for first place.
Mike Hembree is NASCAR Editor for SPEED.com and has been covering motorsports for 30 years. He is a six-time winner of the National Motorsports Press Association Writer of the Year Award.
Logano held off James Buescher during some tight racing over the closing miles and won Saturday’s Alliance Truck Parts 250 Nationwide race at Michigan International Speedway.
The victory is Logano’s fifth of the season in NASCAR’s No. 2 series.
“This team has been on a roll lately,” Logano said. “We’ve just got to keep it going. We’re excited about winning. It’s been a lot of fun lately.”
Logano had the strongest car in the race’s final laps, but he had a final-lap challenge from Buescher.
Buescher dropped low in the first turn to move to Logano’s inside, but Logano was able to stay in front on the outside and won the race relatively easily.
“I know what he was doing,” Logano said of Buescher. “He was waiting until the end to try to make the pass. He had a good run into one. I saw him try to dive-bomb me. I started to block, but I decided to stay up there and was able to make it work.”
Buescher said his car was a touch unstable. “We just didn’t have all the speed we needed in the center of the corner,” he said. “I thought I could get Joey on the last lap. I peeked to the inside, but when I got down on the flatter part of the banking it got loose.”
Following the two leaders at the finish were Kurt Busch and Cole Whitt.
The race’s final restart came with four laps to go and with Logano, Buescher, Austin Dillon and Whitt in the top four.
The finish of the race was delayed by a fiery crash involving Josh Richards and Jamie Dick. NASCAR red-flagged the event while the crash area was cleared.
The day was an adventurous one for Danica Patrick, who spun three times, with two of the accidents also involving Brad Sweet.
Her final spin came with 13 laps to go as she and Sweet raced for 14th position. They collided in the middle of the track, causing major right-side damage to Patrick’s car.
She had survived two earlier spins to stay in the top 15.
Earlier, Patrick had lost control of her car as Dillon passed her on the inside. Patrick’s slide brought out the caution in the race’s closing laps as Logano passed Elliott Sadler for the lead.
The green flag flew with 18 laps to go with Logano and Sadler leading Paul Menard and Busch.
The second Patrick-Sweet caution slowed the race with 13 laps to go and with Logano holding off Menard for first place.
Mike Hembree is NASCAR Editor for SPEED.com and has been covering motorsports for 30 years. He is a six-time winner of the National Motorsports Press Association Writer of the Year Award.
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