Sparta, KY (Sports Network) - Joey Logano is two-for-two in Nationwide Series
competition at Kentucky Speedway.
Logano passed the dominant car of Kyle Busch with 10 laps to go, and then held
off his Joe Gibbs Racing teammate by 1.625 seconds for his second straight
victory in the Meijer 300 at Kentucky. Last year, Logano won at the 1.5-mile
track in just his third start, becoming the youngest driver to win a series
race at age 18 years, 21 days.
"This place just fits me, I just like it," Logano said. "We're fast every time
we come around here."
Logano recorded his second victory of the season and the third of his
Nationwide career.
After Sprint Cup Series practice and a second-place finish in the 200-mile
Camping World Truck Series race at Michigan, Busch came to Kentucky and
qualified second without any practice time in his car there. Logano took the
pole.
Busch ran in front for 162 of 200 laps to increase his streak of leading the
most laps in a Nationwide race to seven.
"It always happens that way, we always lose at the end," a disgusted Busch
said. "It's another one-two finish (for Gibbs). Joey is just better than we
are at these places. Congratulations to him, he learned from Mark Martin to
save his stuff and kind of snooker people into not adjusting on their race
cars."
Earlier this year, Logano passed Busch with 10 laps remaining to win the 300-
mile race at Nashville.
"The last two races that I've won have been a one-two like that," Logano
added.
Logano overcame a penalty for entering pit road too fast just before the
halfway point. NASCAR handed out pit-road speeding penalties to more than half
of the 43-driver field throughout the race.
Many drivers adamantly spoke out on NASCAR's crack down, particularly Carl
Edwards after he was caught twice for speeding.
"The fact is, like it or not, NASCAR messed up the final pit road exit length,
so they were catching all of these people speeding," Edwards said. "I got
caught once, and I came in (for pass-thru penalty) and went slower and got
caught again, so they just messed it up."
Edwards dealt with an ill-handling car before finishing three laps behind in
20th.
Brad Keselowski finished third, while Brendan Gaughan recovered from a late-
race spin on old tires to come home fourth.
Justin Allgaier completed the top-five.
Jason Leffler, Michael Annett, Burney Lamar, Ricky Stenhouse Jr. and Kelly
Bires finished sixth through 10th, respectively.
Busch widened his lead to 137 points over Edwards.