Logano supports Kenseth’s suspension

“Yes I was. I was disgusted by it”, Logano said.

“That was the first I had seen him that vulnerable all day”. Later, informed she had passed Gilliland, Patrick responded, “Damn it, I was meaning to take him out. And I think we’re all pretty clear, now”. JGR appealed and a hearing Thursday morning in Concord, N.C., confirmed the ruling.

“I know there’s a lot of discussion about consistency in our penalties and there should be and that’s part of the equation”, France said earlier in the week.

Keselowski finished second with Kevin Harvick third. Kyle Busch, -2; 3.

FOX in the Fast Lane, I’m Kirstin McNary, FOX News. “Their team did a hell of a job, too”.

But before the engraver could stencil Keselowski’s name on the trophy, he needed to navigate one final restart with 18 laps remaining. This is a very, very challenging racetrack but I love the challenges that are here. It has been a great race track for us in the past. “I didn’t have clue back then that it was going to work out, even to this point”.

Harvick started next to him on the front row and took the lead on lap 19. Never ran a lap in race trim, and the vehicle was just flying in the race. Whatever went on with the adjustments the last pit stop and tracking cheat on him going down really helped white auto and it hurt his vehicle.

That combination dropped Truex from second to eighth over the final 15 laps. Nor does Gordon believe he would take out the leader of a race with five laps remaining, as Logano did at Kansas.

These are truly the darkest of times for Joey Logano.

“When you think about being a champion and being a champion in life, this is a true test of the type of person you are, ” Logano said Friday at Texas Motor Speedway.

“The left rear tire came apart and shredded everything inside the vehicle”, Logano said. But when I look at it, and the more I looked out, it’s a racing thing, it just happened. Blaney has shown all season that he is Cup ready with great runs in the Wood Brothers Ford and it would be awesome to see them get sponsorship to run an entire season in 2016. Busch has earned three top-10s in his last four Phoenix global Raceway races, but he has not won since 2005.

Kenseth will miss the next two races, at Texas and Phoenix, and is eligible to return for the November 22 season finale at Homestead-Miami Speedway. Logano described the incident as “hard racing”. “Sometimes you just have to roll with the punches”. “We will be ready for Phoenix”. We also need to build up our confidence on the mile-and-a-halves so we can have the confidence we need at Homestead that not only we are strong team, but we are a team that has a auto that’s performing on the level we need to contend for the win there. I am so proud of this team.

NOTES: Erik Jones filled-in for the suspended Matt Kenseth in the No. 20 Joe Gibbs Racing Toyota. That was the final Cup start for Richard Petty, NASCAR’s first seven-time Cup champion, its only 200 race-winner and the man whose toothy smile, Stetson hat, dark sunglasses and ornately scripted signature marked him as “King Richard“.

That would eventually contribute to Kenseth missing a spot in the third round of the Chase, which continues Sunday with the AAA Texas 500 at Texas Motor Speedway.

Jeff Gordon knows there could be a few desperate drivers in Texas on Sunday trying to get what he already has – one of the four spots to race for the NASCAR Sprint Cup championship in the season finale.