Racing News Digest

No, I did not state that wrong. Joey Logano got his first NASCAR Sprint Cup win today at New Hampshire Motor Speedway.

Logano was able to beat out Ryan Newman in fuel mileage while waiting for the rain to start falling. Just laps before the rain and caution Newman was leading and ran out of gas giving the lead to Joey Logano.

Yeah, it was awesome. You know, we pretty much we didn’t take off as good as we needed to. I think it’s just me still lost out there trying to figure out where I needed to be. We overcame a lot.

We had a left rear cut down right before we made that last long green flag run and just trying to overcome that. When that happened, I thought we were done. I was like, the day just went bad, just try to finish it off and get as best finish we can and we made the right move at the end. He went for it and I was just lucky enough to be in the seat.

This allows Joey Logano to hold the title of “Youngest Sprint Cup Winner Ever”. Congrats.

Now, most everyone should know that Joey has not had the stellar season that I think the media prepped him up for. Regardless of how it comes about though, a win is a win. And when it’s your first in a series, you’ll take it no matter how you can get it.

Prior to today’s race Logano’s best finish in the Sprint Cup Series this year was 9th, three times.

Joey does take a 3 points position jump to 21st. Maybe this win will kick start him to good finish for the season.

The “Big One” at New Hampshire was something else really. On a restart on lap 175 Dale Earnhardt Jr. who was running 3rd at that point spun his tires. Martin Truex Jr. had to get out of the gas a little to avoid Jr. Truex got back in the gas and bumped Earnhardt Jr a little causing Truex to float down the track a little and slow down a hair.

At that point Kyle Busch moved up the track just a hair to get on the high side of Truex. Kyle effectively attempting 3 wide really. At that point Martin Truex Jr. moves back up the track to his position having expected Kyle Busch to have let off the gas a little and not be right there.

By coming up the track Truex’s rear quarter panel met Kyle’s front quarter panel sending Martin Truex Jr into a spin that ulitmately got 8 cars involved. That’s just the cars that were right there I believe. Ryan Newman was towards the rear of the field while the accident was happening up front. It caused him to get collected up as well with some minor front end damage.

“I was just staying in line doing what I could to get going, and obviously you can’t pass before the start/finish line. And I guess Kyle just decided he didn’t want to lift, so I was just an innocent victim [Sunday],” said Martin Truex Jr., who got the worst of an accident that defined the Sprint Cup event until rookie Joey Logano won in the rain. “Someone spun the tires, and our lane didn’t go. Kyle just lost his head, like he usually does when something bad happens. He decided he wasn’t going to lift, he was going to turn me on the straightaway for no good reason at all. We have a tore up race car.”

“When I was in the care center, I saw the replay and it looked like the 18 was just completely impatient,” said Brian Vickers, also involved in the crash. “Very normal. Just hooked [Truex] in the right rear and turned him in front of the field. If you wreck somebody on the straightaway, you kind of should be black-flagged for it, but that’s NASCAR’s call, not my call. That’s the second week in a row that stupidity has cost us a race, and it’s frustrating. I guess everybody just learns to expect Kyle doing something stupid. Stupid is forever.”

This accident prompted the questioning of the double file restart. They were posing the question to Jeff Burton. The negative was obviously being highlighted about the double file restarts. Burton handled the questioning superb stating that it was basically just racing and stating something to the fact that no matter what there are going to be situations.

Today’s points didn’t change much. The first 5 positions didn’t change. Tony Stewart is still leading in the points with Jeff Gordon 69 points back and then Carl Edwards a whopping 367 points away from first.

Joey Logano was the biggest points jumper of the day with his 3 positions.