NASCAR sends Joey Logano, Todd Gilliland to the rear of Cook Out 400 at Richmond

Bob Pockrass of FOX Sports reports that Todd Gilliland’s team is working on a throttle body issue. Perhaps the reason the team failed to qualify well on Friday.

Last year at Richmond, Joey Logano had taken the lead on a late-race restart. Austin Dillon, who dominated the race for the night, wrecked Logano in a bump-and-run turned hit-and-run on his way to also hooking Denny Hamlin for the win. This year, Logano is starting from the back and will have a very long day if he hopes to try and steal another win.

Gilliland is hoping to earn another top-20 finish at Richmond. It is a track that he has had some success on in the last few years. This season has not gone great for Gilliland, who is 31st in points and has only three top-10 finishes. He has only one finish better than P22 since the Coca-Cola 600.

Joey Logano recalls last year’s Richmond finish

Last season, Austin Dillon went buck wild and wrecked not one but two other cars on his way to the win at Richmond Raceway. While NASCAR let the win stand, they took his playoff eligibility from that win, meaning Dillon and RCR lost out on millions in end-of-the-year payments.

Joey Logano was the first car that Dillon wrecked. The 22 had taken the lead on the late restart, had a good lead on the 3 car, and that’s when Dillon sent it in from four car lengths back to slam into Logano.

Ahead of this year’s Richmond race, Logano was asked if he had rewatched the race. He did.

“I did… it made me mad again. The result didn’t change, unfortunately,” Logano told Bob Pockrass of FOX Sports on Friday.