Joey Logano has been steady as can be this season. Sunday the Ford driver took his 22 car to victory lane at Talladega winning the GEICO 500 by .127 seconds over Kurt Busch. Logano led a race-high 70 laps including the final 42 en route to the win.
Ford drivers were the class of the field once again at the 2.66 mile superspeedway as they have been for the bulk of the 2018 season with pole winner Kevin Harvick finishing fourth, Ricky Stenhouse Jr fifth, David Ragan sixth and Aric Almirola seventh. The only non Ford in the top seven was Chase Elliott in his Hendrick Motorsports Chevrolet. Elliott was a sitting duck in the final laps as he waited for anyone in the lead pack to make a move but it was not to be as the field stayed in line racing back to the stripe. Stenhouse seemed to be the car that could make the push on the outside but that move never came as the defending race winner settled in line with the pack.
Brad Keselowski and Paul Menard picked up the first two stage wins as Logano trailed second in both. Both stage winners were eliminated in the final stage as Jimmie Johnson spun in turn 3 taking several others as well in the process. Kyle Busch who entered the event with a 3 race winning streak was relegated to a 13th place finish in his Toyota after a pit road speeding penalty at the end of the second stage.
The win was the 19th of Logano’s career and third at Talladega that also broke a 36 race dry spell dating back to Richmond last year, that win incurred a post race penalty.
The Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series heads to Dover International Speedway for the next event Sunday
Monday, April 30, 2018
Monday, April 9, 2018
Texas Motor Speedway weekend
TMS once again hits a home run. It seems so often that there is something that tries to throw a curve, well this time it was Mother Nature but not so much rain.
Temperature Saturday morning were in the low 30's, in April! Track temps in the 50's but the show went on and to the race fans that stayed in the stands for that one you are the MVP's!
Sunday was not near as bad but still nippy, The O' Reilly Auto Parts 500 had a little of everything. Close racing, grinding crashes, penalties you name it. In the end Kyle Busch outran Kevin Harvick for the win. Just as expected as the race ended the weather actually felt warm.
RPM Radio TX had another great experience at TMS, great folks to work with and the hospitality and respect from the team there in No Limits, TX is much appreciated. Big thanks and much love to Rachel Plant "The Picture Taker" for putting us up in the must be new Holiday Inn in the Trophy Club area; as mentioned on our live prerace show (which is at RPMRadioTX.com or RUSS FB Page) there is NO WAY we would have booked something that nice ourselves.
Mike Haag of Raceday SA is not only a valued resource but a great friend and Mike helped us make some amazing connections as well as jumping in on RUSS.
Weekend ended perfectly with TMS President Eddie Gossage trying to say "you are listening to the Revved Up Sports Show on RPM Radio TX" ... we will fill you in.
TMS see you in June or November; everyone else we will see you the next we see you!
RR
Temperature Saturday morning were in the low 30's, in April! Track temps in the 50's but the show went on and to the race fans that stayed in the stands for that one you are the MVP's!
Sunday was not near as bad but still nippy, The O' Reilly Auto Parts 500 had a little of everything. Close racing, grinding crashes, penalties you name it. In the end Kyle Busch outran Kevin Harvick for the win. Just as expected as the race ended the weather actually felt warm.
RPM Radio TX had another great experience at TMS, great folks to work with and the hospitality and respect from the team there in No Limits, TX is much appreciated. Big thanks and much love to Rachel Plant "The Picture Taker" for putting us up in the must be new Holiday Inn in the Trophy Club area; as mentioned on our live prerace show (which is at RPMRadioTX.com or RUSS FB Page) there is NO WAY we would have booked something that nice ourselves.
Mike Haag of Raceday SA is not only a valued resource but a great friend and Mike helped us make some amazing connections as well as jumping in on RUSS.
Weekend ended perfectly with TMS President Eddie Gossage trying to say "you are listening to the Revved Up Sports Show on RPM Radio TX" ... we will fill you in.
TMS see you in June or November; everyone else we will see you the next we see you!
RR
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