Joey Logano holds off Chase Briscoe to win NASCAR Cup race at Richmond

The three-time NASCAR Cup Collection champion continues his summer season surge in Richmond. Joey Logano is now ninth within the championship standings when he was exterior the highest 16 simply over a month in the past.

The Workforce Penske driver earned his thirty ninth profession win and second within the final 4 races on Saturday night time, beating Chase Briscoe by 0.392s on the checkered flag. 

“Do not let the boys get sizzling,” mentioned Logano after climbing from his automobile. “We’re fairly sturdy proper now (smiling). Superior to see the velocity within the 22 once more. Gosh, it was an incredible automobile. We have had an incredible automobile right here the final 5 races. We have not been in a position to capitalize on the win. Been so shut. Candy redemption right this moment.”

Austin Cindric made large features in his combat to make the Chase, ending third. Denny Hamlin completed fourth and Chase Elliott fifth.

Kyle Larson, Christopher Bell, Josh Berry, William Byron, and Alex Bowman crammed out the rest of the highest 10.

Phases 1 and a pair of

Chase Briscoe, Joe Gibbs Racing, Ryan Blaney, Workforce Penske, Josh Berry, Wooden Brothers Racing

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Blaney and Briscoe battled side-by-side for a number of laps earlier than Blaney lastly cleared him for the lead.

About 30 laps into the race, the primary spherical of green-flag stops started as tires had been paramount. 

Briscoe stored the stress on Blaney, nevertheless it was the Penske driver who gained Stage 1. They had been adopted by Logano, Cindric, Berry, Wallace, Hamlin, Bell, Elliott, and Byron. 

On the following restart, Wallace received knocked up the monitor by Berry, however they averted a extra critical incident. On the entrance, Briscoe led, however not for lengthy as Blaney ran him down and handed him.

Throughout the subsequent spherical of green-flag pit stops, Zane Smith spun on his personal, catching a number of drivers out. Drivers adversely impacted by the timing included 23XI teammates Reddick and Wallace.

 

Blaney was about to pit from the lead, however his spotter noticed the accident unfold and stored him on monitor.

On the following restart, there was some extra contact as Bowman and Herbst slammed fenders. Larson additionally moved Hocevar up the monitor.

Later, Hamlin bumped into the again of Blaney in an ungainly second, hitting one another a second time as Blaney bobbled because of the first hit.

With 70 to go within the stage, one other spherical of green-flag stops started, and Zilisch received caught rushing. On the monitor, Logano moved into the race lead.

With the methods various all through the sphere, the drivers on the first technique pitted about 15 laps later, and all of them meant to go to the top of the stage.

Cindric practically made contact on pit highway when he tried to show into his stall, however he and Suarez averted each other.

Late within the stage, Larson pitted for contemporary tires, hoping to make use of the rubber benefit to unlap himself. He did not fairly do sufficient to catch the chief, however he did safe the free move ultimately.

On the entrance, Logano was driving away with the race lead, over eight seconds away from his closest competitors. He left simply 12 automobiles on the lead lap, profitable Stage 2.

Behind Logano, it was Hamlin, Briscoe, Cindric, Blaney, Berry, Elliott, Bell, Reddick, and Byron.

Stage 3

Christopher Bell, No. 20 Joe Gibbs Racing Toyota; Joey Logano, No. 22 Workforce Penske Ford

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On the restart, Briscoe managed to take the lead from Logano, whereas Berry drew the ire of Hamlin after stepping into him within the shuffle. Hamlin bumped him quickly after, in a sketchy second that concerned Cindric to Berry’s exterior. 

Van Gisbergen rolled the cube, staying out on outdated tires and taking the wave-around again to the lead lap. In the end, he needed to pit and did not catch the yellow, at the very least not on that sequence.

With 120 laps to go, the leaders started to file down pit highway underneath green-flag situations, whereas Hocevar abruptly slowed with an engine failure. Hocevar had by accident downshifted, inflicting the engine failure and triggering one other mid-cycle warning.

 

This was an enormous break for Reddick and Van Gisbergen, whose determination to go off-sequence labored out in the long term.

A handful of drivers pitted throughout this yellow, whereas Briscoe took over the lead. 

On the restart, Berry and Chastain slammed doorways as they went four-wide off Flip 2 however everybody saved it.

With 75-80 laps to go, important green-flag stops received underway, and the leaders had been among the many first down within the cycle. Hamlin had a sloppy cease, costing him a while.

Bell ran very lengthy, making an attempt to chop out a cease, pitting from the lead with 56 laps to go. Briscoe inherited the race lead, simply forward of Logano.

With 40 laps to go, Logano made an out of doors move on Briscoe for the race lead, making the transfer as they battled lapped site visitors.

Instantly, they known as Briscoe to pit highway and Logano responded. Briscoe locked up the tires as they pitted collectively, and Logano narrowly beat Briscoe off pit highway.

This put Bell again into the lead as he tried to chop out a pit cease. With 25 laps to go, Logano simply handed Bell and drove off with the lead.

Briscoe remained inside placing distance, however Logano used lapped site visitors to construct sufficient of a cushion within the last laps and held on to win by 0.392 seconds. Cindric completed third, forward of Hamlin and Elliott.

 

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