{"id":64885,"date":"2018-05-05T09:07:01","date_gmt":"2018-05-05T09:07:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/?p=64885"},"modified":"2018-05-05T09:07:01","modified_gmt":"2018-05-05T09:07:01","slug":"joey-logano-22-car-fast-needs-championship-caliber-fast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/sports\/joey-logano-22-car-fast-needs-championship-caliber-fast.html","title":{"rendered":"Joey Logano: 22 car is fast, but needs to be championship-caliber fast"},"content":{"rendered":"

Joey Logano: 22 car is fast, but needs to be championship-caliber fast<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n

Joey Logano ended a year-plus drought Sunday by winning at Talladega Superspeedway, putting his name in the playoff bucket and righting the Team Penske No. 22 ship.<\/span><\/p>\n

Now, Logano said Friday, it\u2019s time for the next chapter. He\u2019s looking to challenge for victory No. 2 in Sunday\u2019s AAA 400 at Dover International Speedway (Fox, 2 p.m. ET).<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cIf we keep just doing our thing, eventually we are going to feel like we are a championship-winning team,\u201d he said. \u201cWe just have to get a little faster. That is the biggest thing. How can we be the car that is leading consistently? We have been that car the last two weeks but how can we do that the rest of the way? If we can do that we will be in championship contention.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cWe have time, which is good. [But] I don\u2019t look at it like we have time because I want to win each week, and the playoff points mean so much. We need to be considered one of those top three cars that I brought up earlier to feel like we are a strong threat of winning the championship.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Logano won at Richmond Raceway last spring, but that win was ruled encumbered by NASCAR because of violations, and Logano\u2019s automatic entry into the playoffs disappeared. He didn\u2019t win the rest of the season and was on the outside looking in as 16 drivers pursued the Cup championship.<\/span><\/p>\n

Over the succeeding months, Logano said the team battled back, looking for more speed.<\/span><\/p>\n

Logano: Talladega win another shot in arm for Fords, Team Penske<\/span><\/p>\n

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\u201cI just kept looking at what we could do to get better,\u201d Logano said. \u201cWe were in a slump, for sure. We came out of that Richmond race, and we had our penalty and then we crashed the next two weeks at Talladega, here (Dover), actually three weeks because we crashed in Kansas. We lost so many points those three weeks it was like, \u2018Uh oh, what happened?\u2019<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cWhen you don\u2019t have speed in your car, you tend to get caught up in more junk. You don\u2019t score stage points. By the time we started figuring it out and getting better, the playoffs were starting and it was too late. It was definitely a challenging season and you just try to get better.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Source:-https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/sports\/nascar\/2018\/05\/04\/joey-logano-looks-more-speed-dover\/581503002\/<\/span><\/p>\n

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