Logano focuses on title chase in Texas
FORT WORTH, Texas — Joey Logano arrived at Texas with a clear conscience, an easy smile and a new focus after being intentionally wrecked by Matt Kenseth last weekend.
Kenseth’s two-race suspension begins Sunday after his appeals were rejected. Logano said the incident at Martinsville when he was leading might not have been such a bad thing.
“Our team is more fired up than ever, I’m more focused than ever, I’m pretty pumped up about being here at the race track,” Logano said Friday. “We’ve still got plenty of confidence.”
Logano is last among the eight drivers still in contention for the Chase for the Sprint Cup championship.
He had won three consecutive races and was leading with 47 laps left when he was wrecked by Kenseth as payback from an incident three races earlier.
NASCAR suspended Kenseth, so Erik Jones will be in the No. 20 Toyota for Joe Gibbs Racing for Sunday’s race.
