Joey Logano scored his 32nd NASCAR Cup Series victory at Atlanta Motor Speedway on Sunday (March 19). The win was his first at Atlanta and his 30th in Team Penske’s No. 22 car.
And despite being with Penske for more than 10 years, Logano did something on Sunday that he had never done before: win a race in a No. 22 car that wasn’t primarily sponsored by Shell or Pennzoil.
Logano has made 365 Cup starts with Penske, 50 (13.7%) of which weren’t adorned by his most recognizable cosponsors. If Logano’s wins were randomly distributed across all his starts, he would be projected to have four wins in alternate paint schemes; to not have a single one is unlucky.
That all changed on Sunday, as AutoTrader was the lucky sponsor on the hood of the No. 22 car. The last time Logano had won without his usual red or yellow was all the way back in June 2012 at Pocono Raceway with Home Depot.
Atlanta by the Numbers
1965: The last time that Ford swept the top eight spots in qualifying.
- Ford turned heads in the prerace, as the Blue Ovals blocked Chevrolet and Toyota out of the first four rows.
- The manufacturer backed up its qualifying speed in the race, as Ford drivers combined to lead 221 of the 260 laps.
- Is Ford back on track after a slow start to 2023?
7: The number of times that Logano has won the race after winning the pole in qualifying.
- Only Kevin Harvick and Kyle Busch (eight each) have more wins from the pole among active full-time drivers.
- With 28 career Cup poles, Logano has a pole-win conversion rate of 25%.
- All seven of Logano’s wins from the pole also saw him lead the most laps. That leads all active drivers, as Harvick and Busch both trail with six.
140: The number of laps that Logano led on Sunday.
- It’s the third straight race this season where one driver led more than half the laps.
- All three Cup races at the reconfiguration Atlanta have seen the driver that led the most laps take home the trophy.
- The last time that a driver led exactly 140 laps in a Cup win was Bill Elliott’s final win at Rockingham Speedway in November 2003.
0: The number of laps that Hendrick Motorsports led on Sunday.
- Hendrick cars had combined to lead 506 of the 582 laps in the two prior races at Las Vegas Motor Speedway and Phoenix Raceway.
- Hendrick swept the 2022 races at Atlanta with William Byron and Chase Elliott, but the team was largely out to lunch in the first 2023 edition. Alex Bowman was…
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