Monday, April 30, 2018

22 and Crew in Dega Victory Lane

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

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