Joey Logano wins at Watkins Glen, saves fuel this time

AJ Allmendinger drives during qualifying for today’s NASCAR Sprint Cup race at Watkins Glen global in Watkins Glen, New York Allmendinger won the pole position.

Green flag: 2 p.m. He also gave Roger Penske his first Cup victory at The Glen.

Kevin Harvick continues to lead all drivers in the NASCAR Sprint Cup driver standings with a total of 780 points.

Wolfe finished 12th in the Burnham Boilers 150 at Holland in 2003 and 10th in the 2004 Sunoco 150 at Holland, driving Chevrolets. Hamlin fell to the back end of the field as his team again tried to figure out what happened and get a new lid installed over his engine.

“The key to success at all the road courses will be patience”, Rhodes said. Today’s race has an afternoon start time and airs on a hard to find TV channel as well as a live stream online option. “We had a couple of situations and Joey did a good job recovering from it. It’s a good tune-up for tomorrow. It was great to have represented good local companies like that for sure”.

“We could”, NASCAR Executive Vice President and Chief Racing Development officer Steve O’Donnell told the NASCAR Wire Service before Sunday’s Cheez-It 355 at the Glen.

“It was reasonable”, he said of Saturday’s Cup qualifying effort. We’ve had really fast cars, but the circumstances have just gotten the best of us.

“It was something we really pursued heavily. Darlington and Richmond; there are some tracks that we could run really well at”. “Like I said, road racing is not my background”. Kyle Busch won the first one at Sonoma (Calif.) Raceway in June.

Lead Changes: 9 among 4 drivers.

Time of Race: 2 Hrs, 23 Mins, 31 Secs. “We didn’t want to do the same thing”.

“When you get a win or two underneath your belt, you begin enthusiastic about what you need to do in these 10 (season-ending Chase) races”, stated Gordon, winless this season.

Yet another late race restart was set up when Gaughan and Kenny Habul tangled with seven laps to go.

While the auto may be the same, the mood in the shop of the one-car team is different. He has driven for two of the more prominent vehicle owners in motorsports who both bear the initials R.P. He drove formerly for Roger Penske and now Petty.

“I’m a little ashamed of myself, ” Johnson said trackside, with camera in hand and a No. 24 Jeff Gordon hat on his head. It’s been awhile since I’ve been here in the Cup Series. “I think they’ll treat each other with respect”.

Phelps won in a dazzling 50.45 seconds, almost a second faster than his gold-medal winning time at the London Olympics and, more important to Phelps, he went faster than Le Clos’ time about eight hours earlier in Kazan, Russia, where he won the world championship in 50.56. He finished second in an IndyCar Series race here in 2007. “We’ll see. It’s a tough race”.

“Tracks like Sonoma, that’s basically home for me, where I was born and grew up, and the effort that they put into that final race there and the way that the fans responded was fantastic”, he says.

He quietly posted a 13th-place finish at Watkins Glen, and heads to Michigan global Speedway this weekend knowing that his first career Chase berth is well within reach.

AJ Allmendinger starts first at Watkins Glen. “We have high expectations for the Chase – I think we’ve proven that we can compete with the best-of-the-best”. “I never quite got close enough to him”.