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Joey Logano notched his eighth Nationwide Series victory of the year thanks to a two tire call by his crew at Charlotte Motor Speedway on Friday evening.
"I should know better than to question Adam Stevens (crew chief) -- he's just amazing," said Logano in Victory Lane. He's given me great cars every single weekend. We had to work really hard for this -- the 22 (Brad Keselowski) was pretty good the mid-part of the
race. He made some good adjustments -- I found a new line and was able to make this GameStop Toyota fast enough to win."
Logano who led a race-high 62-laps took the lead from Keselowski with eight laps to go, taking his 17th career win in NASCAR's junior series.
Keselowski's team failed to get enough fuel into his Dodge to challenge for win, he ended up 18th.
"We certainly had a car to win with the Discount Tire Dodge. Discount Tire does tires, not gas so they've got that part right (smiles). Just didn't have any gas there at the end and they won't run without that."
Kevin Harvick finished second, followed by fellow RCR team driver Elliot Sadler who had won the pole. The next two spots went to Sprint Cup drivers Kyle Busch, in a KBR car and finished fourth followed by Logano's JGR teammate, Denny Hamlin in the NASCAR teams' hometown event which featured a total of 11 Sprint Cup regulars.
Sadler padded his series lead to 13 points lead over Ricky Stenhouse Jr. - who finished seventh - with four races remaining in the season. Austin Dillon, who finished sixth, fell to 29 points behind the leader.
"We're not close enough to (Sadler)," Stenhouse said. "We're losing points, so that's not the way we need to be going."
"This was good because it was a mile-and-a-half track and we have three left in Kansas, Texas and Homestead, and we know we're going to run really well at Phoenix," Sadler added.
"For us to come in here and sit on the pole, lead some laps, run in the top-five all night long, says a lot about our program. I'm so proud of these guys.
"This is exactly what we needed."
"I should know better than to question Adam Stevens (crew chief) -- he's just amazing," said Logano in Victory Lane. He's given me great cars every single weekend. We had to work really hard for this -- the 22 (Brad Keselowski) was pretty good the mid-part of the
race. He made some good adjustments -- I found a new line and was able to make this GameStop Toyota fast enough to win."
Logano who led a race-high 62-laps took the lead from Keselowski with eight laps to go, taking his 17th career win in NASCAR's junior series.
Keselowski's team failed to get enough fuel into his Dodge to challenge for win, he ended up 18th.
"We certainly had a car to win with the Discount Tire Dodge. Discount Tire does tires, not gas so they've got that part right (smiles). Just didn't have any gas there at the end and they won't run without that."
Kevin Harvick finished second, followed by fellow RCR team driver Elliot Sadler who had won the pole. The next two spots went to Sprint Cup drivers Kyle Busch, in a KBR car and finished fourth followed by Logano's JGR teammate, Denny Hamlin in the NASCAR teams' hometown event which featured a total of 11 Sprint Cup regulars.
Sadler padded his series lead to 13 points lead over Ricky Stenhouse Jr. - who finished seventh - with four races remaining in the season. Austin Dillon, who finished sixth, fell to 29 points behind the leader.
"We're not close enough to (Sadler)," Stenhouse said. "We're losing points, so that's not the way we need to be going."
"This was good because it was a mile-and-a-half track and we have three left in Kansas, Texas and Homestead, and we know we're going to run really well at Phoenix," Sadler added.
"For us to come in here and sit on the pole, lead some laps, run in the top-five all night long, says a lot about our program. I'm so proud of these guys.
"This is exactly what we needed."