Logano steals victory from Busch at Kansas
Kansas City, KS (Sports Network) - Six days after he flipped several times in a horrifying wreck in the Dover Sprint Cup Series race, Joey Logano bounced back by winning Saturday's Kansas Lottery 300 Nationwide Series race at Kansas Speedway.
Kyle Busch once again dominated a Nationwide race, but after a late-race restart, Logano passed Busch for the lead with four laps remaining. It was the fourth time this season that Logano has taken the lead away from his Joe Gibbs Racing teammate with less than 10 laps to go and then go on to victory.
The 19-year-old driver recorded his fourth victory of the season and the fifth of his Nationwide career.
"I had a good restart and then [Brad Keselowski] was pushing [Busch] ahead and he got in front of me and I said, 'this stinks'," Logano said. "I gave it all I had. I knew I wasn't going to get him on the bottom because I was aero-tight all day. I couldn't pass anyone on the bottom, so I started working on top and driving my guts out." Last Sunday, Logano rolled eight times down the track at Dover after Tony Stewart tapped him from behind early in the race. The Sprint Cup rookie spun on the backstretch and then slid up the track before Reed Sorenson slammed into him, causing him to flip. He was not injured during the incident.
"From last week to now, I needed a win to stop everyone talking about am I going to be all right and what was it like to roll," he added.
Logano became the ninth different winner in as many Nationwide races at Kansas.
Busch has finished second in all four of Logano's wins this year.
"We had a car that should have won the race, but I guess it didn't happen today," said Busch, who led 173 of 200 laps.
Busch broke the series single-season record for most laps led. He has led 2,226 laps after 29 races this year.
Sam Ard previously held the record for leading the most laps in a season with 2,217. Ard accomplished the feat during a 28-race span in 1984.
Keselowski finished third, followed by Kevin Harvick and Greg Biffle, who had to start from the rear of the field in a backup car after wrecking in qualifying.
Busch padded his championship lead to 245 points over Carl Edwards with six races to go in the season. Edwards finished seventh.
Parker Kligerman, a Penske Racing development driver and ARCA Series standout, started on the pole and led the first seven laps in his Nationwide debut. He fell one lap behind midway through the event but rebounded for a respectable 16th-place finish.
The 19-year-old driver from Westport, CT kicked off his week at Kansas by winning his eighth ARCA race of the season on Thursday.
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