After finishing second six times this season in the NASCAR Nationwide Series, Joey Logano was a little tired of coming up short.
Logano made sure that didn’t happen again Saturday in the Kansas Lottery 300 at Kansas Speedway, holding off Brad Keselowski and Kyle Busch for his second straight win at the track in front of an estimated crowd of 70,000. Logano became the first driver in 10 Kansas races to repeat in the Nationwide Series.
Logano, who started on the pole, led five times for 18 laps. After finishing second to Busch three times in 2010, Logano turned the tables Saturday, getting a big push from points leader Keselowski on the final restart, a green-white-checker finish. Keselowski then got past Busch on the final stretch to finish second. Topeka Capital Journal
Logano, who won in Nationwide for the second time this year, acknowledged Keselowski’s boost.
“It’s cool to get back in victory lane after the way we’ve been finishing second so much lately,” Logano said. “He [Keselowski] helped me out a lot. I’ve pushed him to a couple of wins.” FOXNews
Kevin Harvick and Martin Truex Jr. finished fourth and fifth, respectively.
“We’re just a little bit off the Gibbs cars speed-wise,” said Keselowski, who extended his lead in the Nationwide standings to 374 points over second-place Carl Edwards, who finished 14th despite spinning into the Turn 2 wall on Lap 67. “We had some good strategy there, and we got in front of them, but we just didn’t have quite enough to keep in front of them. NASCAR.com
FIN CAR DRIVER MAKE 1 20 Joey Logano Toyota 2 22 Brad Keselowski Dodge 3 18 Kyle Busch Toyota 4 33 Kevin Harvick Chevrolet 5 100 Martin Truex Jr. Toyota 6 6 Ricky Stenhouse Jr. * Ford 7 12 Justin Allgaier Dodge 8 98 Paul Menard Ford 9 62 Brendan Gaughan Toyota 10 38 Jason Leffler Toyota 11 66 Steve Wallace Toyota 12 1 Mike Wallace Chevrolet 13 7 Josh Wise Chevrolet 14 60 Carl Edwards Ford 15 99 Ryan Truex Toyota 16 15 Michael Annett Toyota 17 87 Joe Nemechek Chevrolet 18 10 Ricky Carmichael Toyota 19 40 Mike Bliss Chevrolet 20 70 Shelby Howard Chevrolet 21 9 Brian Scott * Ford 22 88 Aric Almirola Chevrolet 23 16 Colin Braun * Ford 24 42 Parker Kligerman Dodge 25 34 Tony Raines Chevrolet 26 28 Kenny Wallace Chevrolet 27 35 Jason Keller Chevrolet 28 27 Drew Herring Ford 29 81 Michael McDowell Dodge 30 17 Trevor Bayne Ford 31 23 Robert Richardson Jr. Chevrolet 32 104 Jeremy Clements Chevrolet 33 24 Eric McClure Ford 34 213 Jennifer Jo Cobb Ford 35 11 James Buescher * Toyota 36 32 Reed Sorenson Toyota 37 21 Morgan Shepherd Chevrolet 38 179 Tim Andrews Ford 39 90 Danny O'Quinn Jr. Chevrolet 40 52 Kevin Lepage Chevrolet 41 91 David Gilliland Chevrolet 42 26 Brian Keselowski Dodge 43 136 Jeff Green Chevrolet
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