‘We Really feel Good’ — Joey Logano’s Crew Chief Spills Particulars on the Secret Technique To Win Again-to-Again NASCAR Championships

Solely 4 races stay within the common season, and the Cup Sequence’ defending champion, Joey Logano, has solely received one race and completed solely twice within the top-5 up to now. Nevertheless, the No. 22 group remains to be assured of its probabilities for a back-to-back Cup Sequence title.

Logano’s crew chief, Paul Wolfe, just lately revealed their plan to realize that.

Joey Logano Is Eyeing His Fourth Championship

Effectively, 22 races into the season, Logano’s common end is simply 17.7, however nonetheless, nobody would make the error of counting him out of championship rivalry. In case you recall, he turned the champion final season with the worst common end (17.1) for a champion ever in NASCAR’s lengthy historical past.

Logano solely had one win and one prime 5 within the 2024 common season. However the Connecticut native had his sport face on when it mattered essentially the most. Within the playoffs, Logano received thrice and, with some luck within the spherical of 8, managed to win the title. So, almost definitely, the No. 22 group has an identical technique for this season, too.

Wolfe is certain that the group will attain Phoenix this 12 months as nicely. Therefore, he’s had Logano enhance his short-track sport forward of the season.

As reported by NBC, Wolfe, in an interview, mentioned:

“There’s totally different theories and approaches. Do you go take a look at on the observe that’s your weaker observe, or do you go someplace that’s your energy and actually make it higher and know that you’ve got a legit likelihood to win that race? That was sort of the strategy I took, was, hey, we all know (New Hampshire) is a very good observe for us, it’s a brief observe, clearly, Phoenix, the ultimate race, is a brief observe, let’s take that one and make that one even a step higher than what we’ve been and that was our strategy.”

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Nevertheless, Wolfe additionally revealed that Logano wasn’t fully on board with this plan. He wished to do the Charlotte Motor Speedway take a look at as he typically struggles at intermediates. Actually, the playoffs will kick off with an intermediate at Darlington.

As a substitute, all three playoff rounds have one intermediate observe. After the spherical of 16, the spherical of 12 has Kansas. Then, the spherical of eight kicks off with Las Vegas. However Wolfe’s obtained a plan for this as nicely. He’s banking on Logano’s teammate Ryan Blaney’s runs on the 1.5-mile tracks, and plans to make use of the identical setup as him for the No. 22 driver.

“I mentioned let (Blaney) have that, he’s usually our quickest automotive on the high-speed tracks. Perhaps they will study one thing there that helps us all. I really feel like if we’re going to go someplace and actually dial in a setup, Joey’s going to do it nearly as good or higher than any one in all our drivers in our firm. I really feel like we’ve proven that over time,” Wolfe added.

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Additionally, Blaney’s group, too, at instances, depends on Logano’s setup, particularly on the brief tracks, and it really works nice for each groups. Like in final season’s championship race. On which Wolfe mentioned, “Once we go to Phoenix for these championship races, us and (Blaney) are operating the identical setup as a result of it really works and we’ve developed it all year long and testing, and that’s sort of what we did (at New Hampshire), and we be ok with it.”

Effectively, it’s nonetheless an extended approach to go for the season to get its last 4 drivers. Let’s see if Logano manages to make it this time.