NASCAR: Joey Logano beats the great Ryan Blaney to be crowned three-time NASCAR champion
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Joey Logano He entered NASCAR history Winning the final race of the 2024 season in Phoenix And crowned as… Three championships of the main American motorsport competition. He did it in one Becca’s career, Beating the defending champion and his colleague in Pinsky, Ryan Blaney… And overcome all the obstacles that came in his way.
Obstacles that included up to He is his malaise Jackman, Which He had to feel relieved At least a crucial moment of the season, in Critical appointment, Where the winning pilot of the four candidates (plus Lugano And Blaney, Regular season Campeonato, Tyler Reddick The Hendrick pilot, William Byron).
Logano / Blaney, the strongest since the beginning
Lugano Gunn , but the one who gave Better feelings Until the last stage the current Kampen was, Ryan Blaney (Penske), Which Restore 11 jobs In the first 60 laps to clear his worst starting place (17th). Ademis, Prevailed in the second (Which starts with Pace car accident) After a pleasant final struggle with Christopher Bell.
On the contrary, Tyler Reddick, A suite Michael Jordan, He was Mrs. discreet Every Sunday. He had only one appearance-fleeting-at the final stage, without initially entering between the first stage (the term first stage 7 and second 10).
Intensive final stage
The The third stage Start with Blaney 2 , Byron 3 and Logano 4, with Riddick millisecond delayed (9)… But on the risky first lap-in which he was about to lose badly- The pilot of the 23rd managed to take the fifth place. At that time The four candidates for the title were together With the whole decisive stage of the next season.
Logano and Blaney settled down Intense conflict between siblings In the first part (introduction to the final), with two door-to-door moments in which the old heart Roger Pinsky, Located in Phoenix, her heart rate rose to unhealthy levels for her age.
The The last Tirico pass through the pits I opened Logano and got an immediate response from Blaney and Riddick , but The mechanics did not fail and the positions were preserved, With the incumbent Kampen ahead of his teammate and Jordan right behind him.
Byron (Hendrick) stayed on the track 12 Ms laps Search for other options (stop at Yellow and/or fresh rubber at the end). Yellow has arrived… But only when the room is a hole, what Allows rivals to make additional stops To neutralize the potential advantage of better wheels… Although at the expense of losing their positions of privilege.
The race resumes with 54 laps ahead and Byron 1 , Blaney 5 , Logano 6 and Riddick 7, But with an interesting technical position of the leader , who was behind only two His teammates (Larson and Elliott) to make it feudal.
Lugano vs. Blaney, a great final
None of them could contain Lugano , who signed on Amazing highlighting In which she came out as a leader ahead of Byron. Blaney tried everything not to lose track of the two of them face to face , but Kyle Larson, who was in third place, did a great job defending his teammate And kept him in fourth place (Riddick at that time was 6th, after Bell. He will not appear on the scene again). Blaney got rid of L with 34 laps to go, But by that time he had already lost three seconds to Lugano.
At that time campin still He has no choice but to go with everything… He seems to have the pace to pull through. I managed to catch Byron and pass him in just two laps, therefore… He would be 22 years old to shave 2.2 seconds off his teammate And the Ford brand.
Blaney entered the last 10 laps 0.7 seconds ahead of leader Joey Logano and Both Penske drivers completed seven heart-stopping laps Where everything pointed to the peak of the return… He didn’t give that. Logano defended himself more malleably than expected To achieve his second victory this year, undoubtedly the most valuable, because it gives him a title that puts him in the list of the 10 historical NASCAR top 10. Nothing less than that.
