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CONCORD, N.C. \u2014 Four drivers will be eliminated from playoff contention Sunday at the Charlotte Roval, but the driver to watch could be one who is not racing for a championship. <\/p>\n
At age 35, Logano is completing his 17th season in Cup \u2014 meaning he\u2019s spent nearly half his life racing in NASCAR\u2019s premier series.<\/p>\n
While more chances appear likely for Logano to add to his Cup championship total, his focus is not on what could be but what is.<\/p>\n
The reigning Cup champion leads Ross Chastain by 13 points for the final transfer spot ahead of today\u2019s race. Bubba Wallace trails Logano by 26 points, Tyler Reddick is 29 points behind Logano and Austin Cindric is 48 points back.<\/p>\n
It was a year ago that Logano left Charlotte Motor Speedway thinking his hopes for another driver title were over when he failed to secure a transfer spot.<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n <\/a><\/p>\n Tyler Reddick will be joined by Shane van Gisbergen on the front row for Sunday\u2019s Cup playoff elimination race.<\/p>\n \u201cI was kind of starting to move on,\u201d Logano said of the time after that race. \u201cI also knew that I was still in the owner\u2019s championship at that point, so I had a lot to race for. I kind of accepted the fact that we didn\u2019t do enough. We had a good day that day \u2026 but it wasn\u2019t enough.<\/p>\n \u201cI guess there\u2019s two ways of looking at it, because on one hand it\u2019s everything you work for and everything you want and when the dream dies it\u2019s sad. It sucks.<\/p>\n \u201cBut you have keep some perspective on life, which is hard to do when you\u2019re in the middle of (the playoffs). That\u2019s hard to do, but you kind of have to. You\u2019ve got to have some other things going on. Sometimes it helps offset some losses in other ways, which you can also win in some other areas. It kind of keeps you flowing.\u201d<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/a><\/p>\n Tyler Reddick\u2019s wife Alexa took their son to hospital last week and wrote on Instagram that he was showing signs of heart failure.<\/p>\n For Logano that is family with wife Brittany and children Hudson (age 7), Jameson (5) and Emilia (3).<\/p>\n While Logano\u2019s focus is on winning a championship, he says a priority remains time with family.<\/p>\n \u201cThat\u2019s even more important because you only have a little bit of that before it\u2019s gone, before they grow up,\u201d he said. \u201cThat\u2019s always like God, family and work. It\u2019s got to be in that order. That\u2019s how I see it.<\/p>\n \u201cMy wife is awesome. My wife understands that these 10 weeks are a little harder than the rest of the year and she does a good job of relieving any kind of stress that would be at home to where when I\u2019m at home, I can enjoy time with the kids.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
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