Since October of 2020, Joey Logano had not won in the NASCAR Cup Series at a permanent track. He scored victories on Bristol Motor Speedway’s temporary dirt surface and the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum’s temporary quarter-mile, but had a rough go of it on the traditional ovals of NASCAR.
This Mother’s Day evening (May 8), he scored the win on the oldest and most traditional speedway of them all: Darlington Raceway.
After getting into the wall fighting for the lead with William Byron, the Middletown, Conn. native spent 24 laps sitting and stewing in his No. 22, and reeled in the Axalta No. 24. Into turn 3 on the penultimate lap of the Goodyear 400, he put the bumper to Byron. Logano went on to score his first win of 2022, and the first win of his Cup career at the historic Darlington Raceway. Byron ended up 13th.
Logano sent a message to the Hendrick Motorsports driver with his frontstretch interview: “You’re not going to put me in the wall and not get anything back.”
Tyler Reddick ended up second, with Justin Haley scoring his best result of the season in third. Kevin Harvick’s fourth-place finish is his 13th consecutive top-10 at Darlington, beating Bill Elliott’s record. Chase Elliott finished out the top five in his backup car. Christopher Bell, Michael McDowell, Ricky Stenhouse, Jr., Austin Dillon and Daniel Suarez rounded out the top 10.
Many of stock car racing’s biggest stars suffered problems during a tough 400 miles at the Track Too Tough to Tame.
A nine-car pileup on lap 261, triggered when Martin Truex Jr. got taken three-wide in front of the pack, involved top-10 runners Denny Hamlin, Kurt Busch, Bubba Wallace, Erik Jones and others.
For another strong contender in Ross Chastain, it was a day of highs and lows. The Melon Man had kept his No. 1 Coca-Cola Chevy within sight of the lead all afternoon, chasing Logano to the line at the end of stage one and outdueling Truex to score the win in stage two. But on the very next…
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