Joey Logano dominated Saturday’s NASCAR Xfinity Series Roseanne 300 at Auto Club Speedway to give Team Penske its second consecutive victory of the season.
Logano led 139 of the day’s 150 laps. It was his 29th career series win.
“Total team effort there,” Logano said. “Great pit stops, great car, oh my gosh. It’s one of those races that you feel relieved when you win. Man, you’re supposed to win when you have a car that fast.”
Logano did have to battle back in the late going when he pitted under caution to relinquish the top spot. But he charged back and got back to the lead in relative ease.
“I did not opt to do that, (crew chief) Brian (Wilson) opted to do that,” Logano said about coming to pit road. “It ended up working out. I thought we were going to lose more track position than we did. Just shows how fast our car was.”
It’s the second consecutive win for Team Penske after Brad Keselowski won last week at ISM Raceway in Phoenix.
Justin Allgaier, Elliott Sadler, Austin Dillon and Daniel Hemric rounded out the top five.
“Really proud of JR Motorsports,” Allgaier said. “We had four great cars today.”
Cole Custer, Tyler Reddick, Matt Tifft, Ryan Preece and Ross Chastain completed the first 10 finishers.
“We were really good on restarts and thought we were going to be really good on the long run, but we struggled there and for a place like this, it’s going to bite you,” said Preece, who made his first start of the year for Joe Gibbs Racing, “Overall, we got ninth so a top-10 and we’ll build on this for Texas.”
Logano swept the day winning the first two stages as well as the race.
The NASCAR Xfinity Series now heads to Texas Motor Speedway on Saturday, April 7.
