In the final 10 laps of the NASCAR Cup Series race at Richmond Raceway, [autotag]Joey Logano [/autotag] was catching Martin Truex Jr. but never reached him. Instead, a caution with two laps to go gave Logano an opportunity to pass Truex on pit road. The No. 22 car came off pit road in third place and never had a genuine opportunity to win the race with a second-place finish.
Following the event, Logano talked about his second-place finish at Richmond. While a second-place finish is good after a rough start, the two-time Cup Series champion still expressed disappointment that he came up short.
“It feels good, and it hurts at the same time because we were so close to winning the race,” Logano said. “I mean, it’s a race track that we expect to run well at, it’s our best race track and we’ve been consistently in the top-5 and having shots to win.”
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“I started pressuring [Martin Truex Jr.] at the end of that long run, and he got to racing hard with [Ross Chastain] trying to stay on the lead lap. I said, ‘This is my opportunity.’ I got [Denny Hamlin] to burn his stuff up trying to pass me, and I said, ‘OK, this is my chance,’ and I got close to him and burned my stuff up with about three [laps] to go, and I wasn’t going to get him.”
At the end of the night, Logano’s pursuit of Truex didn’t matter because a caution came out with two laps to go. The driver of the No. 22 car had an opportunity but never got in a good enough position to make it happen. Now, Logano will look forward to Martinsville Speedway as he looks to spark some momentum after a rough start to the new campaign.
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