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* Joey Logano won his third race of the season with today’s victory,
not including his win in the All-Star Race.
* It marks his fourth career triumph at Las Vegas Motor Speedway, most
among all tracks.
* Logano will be making his sixth career Championship 4 appearance in
two weeks at Phoenix.
* The win is Logano’s 35th of his Cup Series career and 33rd with
Ford.
* Those 33 wins put him 4th on the all-time Ford win list.
* Today’s win is Ford’s 738th all-time in NASCAR Cup Series
competition.
* It also marks Team Penske’s 99th series win with Ford.
JOEY LOGANO, No. 22 Pennzoil Ford Mustang Dark Horse –
VICTORY LANE INTERVIEW – A WEEK AGO WAS DEJECTION AND
NOW HERE YOU ARE GOING TO THE CHAMPIONSHIP 4.
“Oh my gosh. It’s an incredible turn of events
coming from what was at the end of last weekend and what it was like
Sunday night after a couple hours after the race and to this Sunday.
This sport is just incredible. Things change, but what a team I’ve
got. I stood out there at the start-finish line and it takes a total
effort. Obviously, the car had to be pretty good. It was solid, but when
you think about what it takes to win a fuel mileage race, you’ve got
to have a good engine. You’ve got to have good engineers calculating
stuff. You’ve got to have good communication communicating what they
see and being able to make sure that I only gave up the right amount of
spots on the racetrack and trying to get to the 99 in front and keep the
20 behind. Coleman, Paul, Joe, Nick Hensley, our gas man making sure
it’s full. It takes everybody to do it, so we’re in the Championship
4 again. I’m so proud of this team. We just find a way and that’s
what I’m most proud of. I said it as we entered this thing this week
that we may be the underdogs, but I don’t think so anymore.”
HOW ARE YOU GOING TO CELEBRATE? “I have no clue. We’re a bunch of
old guys. We’re probably going home.”
IS THE FAMILY AT HOME? “Yeah, they’re all at home. We’ll have a
couple weeks to have some fun, but the focus tomorrow morning is going to
be on Phoenix.”
HOW INTENSE WAS THAT FINAL RUN? “We do some fuel mileage stuff,
don’t we? Holy cow. What an incredible turn of events the last week.
What a very fast Pennzoil Mustang. We’ve got the old kids crew here
today and a lot of kids rooting us on, so it was really special to win
in front of them again. My kids at home, I wish you guys were out here,
but we’re going to the Championship 4 again. I don’t know what the
deal is with the even year thing, but maybe it’s real. Thanks to the
fans out here. Thanks to Roush Yates Engines for making great fuel
mileage, great calls by Paul and Nick Hensley, our gas man, making sure
she’s full, giving me the good info I need to save fuel and keep the
lead that we needed to. Boy, we’re going racing again. What an
incredible situation. I’m so blessed.”
HOW DISCIPLINED DID YOU HAVE TO BE ON THAT LAST RUN? “Coleman up there
in the spotter’s stand, working with Paul and our engineers – Shaggy
and Joe – everybody does a good job at just feeding the info that I
needed. You have to go the right pace to make sure you get in front of
the 99 but get to where the 20 was going to catch me. It was an incredible
day. Like I said, it takes the whole team to do the fuel mileage stuff.
It’s not just the engine or the engineers or the driver or the
spotter, it takes all of us together to do it. It’s a total team win.
We may not have been the fastest car today, but we were a solid top five
car and being able to maximize it at the end.”