Last spring, Joey Logano wrangled in the competition at Texas Motor Speedway and two-stepped into Victory Lane.
The 24-year-old Team Penske driver will attempt to repeat his spring Lone Star Statement, a feat no driver has ever accomplished, in Sunday’s Duck Commander 500.
After a breakout five-win season last year and a fourth-place final standings finish, Logano has picked up in 2015 right where he left off. In addition to his Daytona 500 win, the No. 22 Ford driver claims top-10 finishes in all six races and is tied with a series-best two Coors Light Pole Awards. Logano ranks second in the standings, trailing Kevin Harvick by 24 points.
In his last five Texas starts, Logano claims finishes of 12th, first, third, fifth and 11th.
And by the way, the record for consecutive top 10s to start a season is 11, by Morgan Shepherd in 1990.
WDUN will have live PRN Radio coverage of Saturday's NASCAR Sprint Cup Series Duck Commander 500 from Texas Motor Speedway in Fort Worth, TX beginning at 6:30 pm on 102.9 FM and 550 AM.
NASCAR Xfinity Series: Chase Elliott Returns To Defend His Win At Texas
Last season, Chase Elliot joined an illustrious group of drivers (Dale Earnhardt, Jr., Kurt Busch and Trevor Bayne) who posted their first career NASCAR XFINITY Series victories at Texas Motor Speedway. If he defends his win this season, he will be the first of the four drivers who posted their first win at Texas to do so.
While the odds look long for Elliott, there have been 14 different series winners at TMS and five of the 14 have multiple wins. Kyle Busch leads the series in wins at Texas with seven; including five consecutive victories from the spring of 2008 to the spring of 2010. Three drivers have won back-to-back races at Texas – Mark Martin (1999, 2000); Kyle Busch (2008 sweep, 2009 sweep and spring of 2010) and Carl Edwards (fall of 2010 and spring of 2011). Kyle Busch is the only driver since the NASCAR XFINITY Series started competing at TMS twice a year (since 2005) to win consecutive TMS spring events (2008, 2009 and 2010).
The defending series champion, Elliott, has regained his groove and is riding the momentum of his four consecutive top-10 finishes following his season-opening DNF at Daytona. In five starts in 2015, he has an average finish of 9.8, a driver rating of 100.0 (fifth-best in the series) and a percentage of laps run on the lead lap of 97 percent (second-best in the series).
Last season Elliott’s car came alive in the second half of the spring race at Texas. He traded the lead with his teammates Dale Earnhardt, Jr. and Kevin Harvick in the final stretches of the event, but took the lead for the final time on Lap 185 and went on to win the race. Elliott posted three wins last season. He is still looking for his first in 2015.
WDUN will have live PRN Radio coverage of Friday's NASCAR Xfinity Series O'Reilly 300 from Texas Motor Speedway in Fort Worth, TX beginning at 8 pm on 102.9 FM and 550 AM.
NASCAR Camping World Trucks: Brad Keselowski Racing Roars To Fast Start
No team has started off the 2015 NASCAR Camping World Truck Series season hotter than Brad Keselowski Racing. Tyler Reddick notched his first career victory at Daytona International Speedway in the season opener, and Joey Logano took the checkered flag from the pole two races later at Martinsville to give the Statesville, North Carolina-based organization two wins in the first three NCWTS events.
Reddick held the standings lead for the first two races and now finds himself in second, only two points behind defending two-time series champion Matt Crafton. BKR’s No. 19 truck, driven exclusively by Reddick, ranks second in the owner standings, while its No. 29 truck occupies the sixth spot. On the season, BKR has led 203 of 488 total possible laps (41.6%) and has completed 99.79% of the total laps this season.
