Joey Logano Drives Mustang To Victory in NASCAR XFINITY Series Race at Talladega Superspeedway
Ford Finishing Order:
1st – Joey Logano
6th – Chris Buescher
7th – Elliott Sadler
10th – Aric Almirola
20th – Darrell Wallace Jr.
22nd – Dakoda Armstrong
32nd – Ryan Reed
JOEY LOGANO – No. 22 Discount Tire Ford Mustang – VICTORY LANE INTERVIEW – HOW DID YOU DO THAT? “It’s such a fast Discount Tire Ford. Tab Boyd, my spotter, he’s on it. We spent a lot of time before Daytona to figure out these superspeedways and we watched some more footage before we came down here just trying to understand the differences between Talladega and Daytona and it’s just so cool. It’s like a combination of the old school draft and the cars hooking up and bumping, so it’s kind of a combo of what’s going on out there, but it’s so fun and so intense. I’m still trying to catch my breath, but it’s so intense out there and you’re looking at everything in the mirror the whole time, so it was cool to get this thing in victory lane. Our pit coach, Brian Haaland, his dad passed away this week so we know he was riding along with us.”
CHRIS BUESCHER – No. 60 Bit-O-Honey Ford Mustang – “We were close. The 22, it’s a product of this racing, he moved up and he blocked us when we had that final run that we needed there at the end. We just couldn’t do anything with it. This Bit-O-Honey Ford Mustang was fast today. We knew it was good in the draft. We had a good chance out there, it just didn’t quite work out.” ONCE YOU GOT EVEN IN THE OUTSIDE LANE DID YOU THINK YOU WERE GOING TO GET A PUSH TO PASS HIM? “Yeah, the 33 did a heck of a job pushing us there, and honestly it would have been enough, but we just got a block thrown on us there at the end. It is what it is. It’s Talladega. Restrictor plate racing.” HOW HARD IS IT TO HOLD YOUR POSITION WITH ONE TO GO? “It’s wild. Guys are constantly moving you around and we were free.
We had guys really shoving us hard and just made it really loose and hard to hold onto there at the end. It was tough to just hold onto that position and keep it until the end. A lot of things could have gone a little bit better there at the end and a lot of things could have gone a lot worse, so not a bad day for us.”
