Despite falling a lap down early and running out of fuel as the white flag flew, Joey Logano was still able to cross the finish line 10th at Dover International Speedway last weekend, collecting his third straight top-10 finish and fourth in the last six races. That puts Logano as the only non-Chase driver to collect top-10 finishes in the first three races of the Chase and one of only four drivers with top-10s in the first three Chase races. In fact, had Logano been able to win another race and make the Chase, he would be seventh in the point standings less than 40 points out of the top spot. Logano made a similar late-season run back in 2010, when he earned four top-five and six top-10 finishes, including a run of finishes of seventh, sixth, fifth, fourth and third, in the final 10 races of that season.
STATS TELL THE TALLADEGA TALE: There are two tracks on the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series schedule that stand out in the stat column on Logano’s resume and Talladega Superspeedway is...
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