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* Joey Logano won his second race of 2026 today.
* This marks Ford’s third Cup win in the last five races.
* The win is Logano’s 39th of his Cup Series career and 37th with Ford.
* Those 37 wins put him third on the all-time Ford win list.
* Logano has now finished seventh or better in 13 of the last 17 Richmond races.
* Team Penske has won 111 times in the Cup series with Ford.
* Today’s win is Ford’s 752nd all-time in NASCAR Cup Series competition.
JOEY LOGANO, No. 22 Shell/Pennzoil Ford Mustang Dark Horse – VICTORY
LANE INTERVIEW – WHAT GAVE YOU THE EDGE TO WIN THAT RACE? “My team
did a great job. The pressure was on everybody to make the right calls,
to execute the runs, to have a good pit stop there. We were door-to-door
pretty much onto pit road. That tested everything we had. I thought we
were gonna be in good shape because the run before that we were a lot
faster than the 19 right at the end, but we weren’t able to be the
same amount of good as we wanted to be. This is the first time I’ve
had all of my kids here for a win, so this is a real special one for our
family. I’m looking forward to enjoying it.”
HOW SWEET IS THIS AFTER THE WAY THE SEASON STARTED? “It’s a great
recovery so far. There’s a long way to go in the season, but we can
see the front from here. We’ve still got a couple more to gain some
more points to set ourselves up better.”
THE FANS LOVED THE BURNOUT IN VICTORY LANE. WHAT WAS THE DESIGN BEHIND
THAT? “I just like doing burnouts. That’s really all there is to it.
I thought it was a cool opportunity to do a burnout right here. I might
get my hand slapped, but it was worth it.”
Ford Finishing Results:
1st – Joey Logano
3rd – Austin Cindric
8th – Josh Berry
13th – Ryan Blaney
17th – Ryan Preece
18th – Noah Gragson
21st – Chris Buescher
26th – Brad Keselowski
30th – Todd Gilliland
35th – Josh Bilicki
36th – Zane Smith
JOSH BERRY, No. 21 Motorcraft/Quick Lane Mustang Dark Horse – “It
was a decent night. I felt like we left a little bit out there. We just
kind of that one restart I got tight and got jammed up behind the 48 and
we were one of the last cars that stayed out there. That one didn’t
work out, but, all in all, the car was pretty good. For getting trapped
under yellow twice and waving around and all that, it was still a solid
day with stage points. We’ll just go to New Hampshire and try to do
better.”
WHEN YOU GOT THE CONTACT ON THAT ONE RESTART, DID THAT DAMAGE THE CAR?
“I don’t know. We should have pitted, but we didn’t and the 48
kind of got on my outside. I got tight and then I just got ate up by the
cars that had tires and then the race went green. Like I said, I’m a
little disappointed with that, but nothing really went our way
strategy-wise. We were always fighting from behind all night, but
everybody still did a good job for another top 10.”
THAT’S THREE TOP 10S IN A ROW. HOW DOES IT FEEL TO SHOWCASE YOUR
SKILLS? “Yeah, obviously, these are a lot of good tracks for us and
me, but at least I can run good at some tracks I guess, people will say.
A good stretch. I’m excited to get to Loudon.”
AUSTIN CINDRIC, No. 2 Menards/Quaker State Ford Mustang Dark Horse –
DID YOU HAVE TO STAY ON TOP OF THE TIRES ALL NIGHT? “Yeah, that’s
kind of the name of the game here, especially since they introduced this
right side here last year. I thought that was one of our strengths. We
could fire off good enough, but I thought I was one of the best cars,
especially after about 30 laps. We were a little too good too late in
the runs, but, overall, like I said, it was a much needed run for our
Quaker State/Menards Ford Mustang.”
IS THIS THE MOST COMPLETE RACE FOR YOU THIS YEAR? “I feel like car
performance-wise, for sure. You saw that from all four of our cars.
Obviously, with Joey getting the win, the 21 was super strong all night
and Ryan had pace, so I think it’s important for everyone in the
company and we need to keep doing it.”
YOUR STRATEGY PAID OFF. “Yeah, absolutely, I mean I think from an
execution standpoint but also just car speed all weekend. With the
exception of qualifying really, I’m super proud of the race car and
the package. Everybody at Team Penske, all four cars that came out of
that building this week were super strong. I felt like I had a car that
could have won tonight and we didn’t and that’s my only frustration,
but as far as the big picture goes for the season, it was a very
important night for us to capitalize on a good car.”
Jay Ward