Joey Logano
is coming of age. The 22-year-old Joe Gibbs Racing driver used three
solid restarts over the final 18 laps as a springboard to the win at the
Alliance Truck Parts 250 at Michigan International Speedway on Saturday.
Logano
held off James Buescher for his fifth win of the season and 14th in 99
NASCAR Nationwide Series starts. The win was also the first in the
Nationwide Series for Toyota and the first win in any series for Logano
at Michigan.
"We've been on a roll lately, we've just got to keep
it going," said Logano, who also won last week's Sprint Cup Series race
at Pocono. "As a driver, I'm very confident right now in my abilities. I
feel like I've got what it takes to win all of these races, and
obviously I've got a great team."
Buescher was second, followed by Kurt Busch in third, Cole Whitt in fourth and pole-sitter Austin Dillon in fifth.
"It
was definitely a good day for us," said Buescher, who posted his sixth
top-10 finish this season. "We knew we had a fast car, startign fourth.
We were pretty good in race trim and happy with how the car was in
traffic. I didn't have a faster car than the 18, but I just went for it
at the end. He was definitely faster than me through the corners."
Logano
led 31 of the 125 laps, including the final 24, to claim his fifth win
in just 11 Nationwide Series starts. Eighteen cars finished on the lead
lap.
Paul Menard, who finished eighth, led the most laps with 37.
The
race featured seven cautions for 26 laps. The last of those cautions
came on lap 119 of the 125-lap race when the cars of Jamie Dick and Josh
Richards collided in turn three. The collision caused a fire and led
the race being red-flagged for 8 minutes, 46 seconds before the final
restart. Neither driver was hurt in the accident.
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