Joey Logano Wins in New Hampshire

Originally written for CLNS Radio.

Joey Logano won his fourth race of the season on Sunday at New Hampshire Motor Speedway.

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Logano won the Sylvania 300 after using pit strategy to get to the front and hold off the rest of the field.

“Four tires were good and we were able to get some good restarts and get ourselves back up there,” Logano said.

Logano had to be strong over a series of late restarts in a race that featured a season-high 15 cautions.  

“We’re doing what we have to do to win this thing…the guys did a good job of setting this thing up.  They gave me something to win with today.”

Logano’s teammate Brad Keselowski won the pole for the race, and he led the first 35 laps of the race.  Following a competition caution, Denny Hamlin used pit strategy to get to the front and take the lead.

Kevin Harvick ran Hamlin down on lap 71 to take the lead.  He led until Logano took the lead during a caution on lap 170.

Logano led through numerous caution periods that included many Chase contenders, including Hamlin, Kyle Busch, Kasey Kahne and Ryan Newman.

After debris brought out the caution on lap 211, Brian Vickers took the lead and he led until Keselowski chased him down for the lead on lap 227.

Following a caution on lap 263, Keselowski led the field to the green flag on the restart.  Logano got into Keselowski, causing both drivers to get loose.  That allowed Harvick to take the lead, but he only held on until the next restart on lap 273.

Logano took the lead from Harvick, and held off Harvick and Kyle Larson over the final two restarts to take the victory.

Unofficial results:

1. Joey Logano

2. Kyle Larson

3. Kevin Harvick

4. Jamie McMurray

5. Jimmie Johnson

6. Aric Almirola

7. Brad Keselowski

8. Kyle Busch

9. Dale Earnhardt Jr.

10. Brian Vickers

11. Austin Dillon

12. Martin Truex Jr.

13. AJ Allmendinger

14. Clint Bowyer

15. Paul Menard

16. Greg Biffle

17. Carl Edwards

18. Ryan Newman

19. Danica Patrick

20. Justin Allgaier

21. Matt Kenseth

22. Casey Mears

23. Kasey Kahne

24. Marcos Ambrose

25. Landon Cassill

26. Jeff Gordon

27. David Gilliland

28. Alex Bowman

29. Michael Annett

30. Tony Stewart

31. Reed Sorenson

32. Travis Kvapil

33. Josh Wise

34. Mike Wallace

35. Timmy Hill

36. Kurt Busch

37. Denny Hamlin

38. Cole Whitt

39. Ricky Stenhouse Jr.

40. David Stremme

41. Corey Lajoie

42. David Ragan

43. Clay Rogers

Next weekend, the Sprint Cup Series heads to Dover International Speedway for the final race in the Challenger Round of the Chase.  The AAA 400 can be seen next Sunday at 2:00 p.m. EST on ESPN.

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