On Sunday the Team Penske gun hadn’t changed his opinion but he reined in the No. 22 Ford and rode it to victory at MIS – his second at the track – in the FireKeepers Casino 400 NASCAR Sprint Cup race.
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“What a insane race with the low downforce and with more cautions and more opportunity to screw up pretty much”, Logano said in victory lane. “It’s awesome you see some of those guys that are coming in how good they are, and particularly with Chase today and Larson, as well, here recently how fast he’s been”.
“The future of NASCAR is present and it’s going to be big”, Logano said.
Kevin Harvick finished fifth after starting 29th. I don’t know what everybody else is going to say, but I thought it was pretty good. He smacked the pit road wall and nursed the vehicle back around to pit road with two flat tires. We were able to overcome some missed-time cautions, again.
The seventh-place result for Stewart was his second-best this season. “Certainly learned a ton, got a real good attitude, really calm and doesn’t get excited about much”.
The package added a smaller rear spoiler, a smaller deck fin and less surface area in the front splitter that sits underneath the auto.
There is a relatively new face near the top of the grid for Sunday’s FireKeepers Casino 400 at Michigan International Speedway.
“We have to make a difference in the auto, manipulate things”.
With a 50 percent chance of more rain Monday, IndyCar instead rescheduled the race for August 27, which is during what had been an open weekend for the series. He would lead 138 laps and survive a late restart with just 7 laps to go. The caution came out with 11 laps remaining and allowed some to come in for fuel. Logano’s margin over Elliott was.889 of a second.
“I just did something dumb”, said Elliott of his gearshift gaffe. “You can’t do dumb stuff and win these races”. “The guys gave me a fantastic auto today”.
“… I don’t care if you’re Superman, if you don’t have a good auto you can’t go win one of these things”. After not getting up to speed, Elliott dropped back to sixth while Logano reassumed the lead.
“Early in my career when I first started Cup racing, there wasn’t much downforce on the race cars, and I didn’t run very well”, said the 28-year-old Logano, who is in his eighth year of full-time Cup racing.
“The guys gave me a fantastic auto today”, Elliott said to media after the race.
With eight laps to go, a restart. Skippered by Australian Nathan Outteridge, Artemis had finishes of second, first and fourth.
The yellow flag waved nine times throughout the race.
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Dale Earnhardt Jr. was the victim of a Lap 62 crash that started when Chris Buescher’s Ford got loose on the bottom of the track and clipped the left rear of Earnhardt’s Chevrolet, which in turn wiped out the No. 47 Chevy of AJ Allmendinger. “They are hard to drive, and that causes accidents”. “I guess I was a little bit. cautious and thinking about it a lot and how this low downforce is obviously less than we’ve ever had, so kind of going back towards that, how that was going to be?” We just screwed up in qualifying. “You could really see that today”. An underwhelming 2015 and slow start to this year dampened Larson’s luster some, but in recent weeks he’s regularly been on the cusp of breaking through. They will spend the rest of this week vacationing before heading to Sonoma, Calif. on June 26. From Kansas Speedway through Charlotte Motor Speedway, McMurray struggled to finish within sight of the leaders.
