All three Team Penske drivers finished in the top-10 Sunday in the Pocono 400 at Pocono Raceway.
Brad Keselowski, Ryan Blaney and Joey Logano all took the checkered flag inside the first 10 finishers. It was the fourth time this season the trio turned the trick.
Keselowski led the organization with a fifth-place finish while Blaney started from the pole and wound up finishing sixth.
“It was a really hard day,” said Blaney, who scored his first career Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series win in last year’s June Pocono race. “We didn’t start out very good and worked on it really hard. I thought we were about a fourth or fifth place car and we were running fifth there when the caution came out. That jumbled everyone up and we came in and put two on it and my car didn’t really drive that good on two tires.
“We ended up sixth. I thought we were better than a couple cars that finished in front of us. We worked on it pretty hard all day and to make gains like we did through the day is a positive.”
The finish for Keselowski was his sixth consecutive top five at Pocono.
Logano’s day was also full of challenges including some contact with Erik Jones on a late restart.
“We just didn’t get the gas tank full on the first stop and ended up running out of gas and then we had to pit while the pits were closed and went down a lap and then there just weren’t any cautions to get the lap back,” Logano said.
“Once we did it was just too late. We finished ninth and at least we got back up there some but I feel like we should have finished top-five with the car we had. We just shot ourselves in the foot a little bit today.”
