{"id":221202,"date":"2025-10-18T02:28:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-18T02:28:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/221202\/"},"modified":"2025-10-18T02:28:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-18T02:28:07","slug":"joey-logano-makes-passionate-case-for-nascar-to-not-create-a-multiple-race-final-championship-round","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/221202\/","title":{"rendered":"Joey Logano Makes Passionate Case for NASCAR to Not Create A Multiple Race Final Championship Round"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-type=\"content\" data-variant=\"p\" id=\"article-content-block-1\" class=\"data-event\">Last season, after winning his third Cup Championship despite posting a 17.1 average finish, the lowest ever for a champion in NASCAR Cup Series history, Joey Logano voiced his thoughts on the playoff format.<\/p>\n<p data-type=\"content\" data-variant=\"p\" id=\"article-content-block-2\" class=\"data-event\">While he tipped his hat to the system for keeping the title fight exciting, he argued that the championship finale should rotate venues, much like the Super Bowl. In his view, <a href=\"https:\/\/thesportsrush.com\/nascar-news-should-be-like-the-super-bowl-why-joey-logano-wants-to-shift-the-championship-race-from-phoenix\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" data-utm_source=\"article\" data-utm_medium=\"content\" data-utm_campaign=\"link\">running the same track<\/a> year after year takes the shine off the season\u2019s crescendo. However, he drew the line at expanding the finale into a multi-race round, a proposal with which he doesn\u2019t agree.<\/p>\n<p data-type=\"content\" data-variant=\"p\" id=\"article-content-block-3\" class=\"data-event\">Ahead of the Talladega race on Sunday, the #22 Team Penske driver explained his reason behind the same. During his media session, when asked whether NASCAR should stick with a single winner-takes-all finale or explore a three-race Championship round, he said competitors simply play by the rules on the table and aim to win under those conditions.<\/p>\n<p data-type=\"content\" data-variant=\"p\" id=\"article-content-block-4\" class=\"data-event\">Speaking as both racer and fan, Logano stated, \u201cI love the one-race where it all comes down to one thing. I love the pressure that it puts on every member of the team. I love that they\u2019ve got to come down pit road, and they cannot screw up, and I love that every decision that is made with that race car before it leaves the shop has a direct effect on whether you win the championship or not.\u201d<\/p>\n<p data-type=\"content\" data-variant=\"p\" id=\"article-content-block-5\" class=\"data-event\">Drawing parallels to football\u2019s biggest stage, the Super Bowl, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=8ykmC7OamsU\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" data-utm_source=\"article\" data-utm_medium=\"content\" data-utm_campaign=\"link\">he added<\/a>, \u201cYou will leave the racetrack knowing who is the champion. I like it. I personally love that. Not everyone has the same opinion, and that\u2019s mine, but that\u2019s mine just as a fan watching. As a competitor, it\u2019s stressful as hell. It\u2019s not a comfortable place to be in. No one would really ever know what that feels like unless you\u2019re in the seat, but it\u2019s hard. It\u2019s supposed to be hard.\u201d<\/p>\n<p data-type=\"content\" data-variant=\"p\" id=\"article-content-block-6\" class=\"data-event\">Having lived both sides of that knife\u2019s edge, Logano knows the agony and ecstasy of the format firsthand. He confessed to losing championships by a single pit stop, a mistimed restart, or even a bad set of tires that robbed him of victory. Yet, he takes it on the chin, believing that\u2019s simply how the chips fall. \u201cBe it,\u201d he said, acknowledging that every driver has to play the hand they\u2019re dealt.<\/p>\n<p data-type=\"content\" data-variant=\"p\" id=\"article-content-block-7\" class=\"data-event\">For Logano, the one-race finale defines what championship racing should be: brutal, uncomfortable, and unpredictable. \u201cPersonally, I love it,\u201d he said, admitting that even as a competitor, he feels there\u2019s something undeniably enticing about putting everything on the line for one race, for a single shot at the title.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Last season, after winning his third Cup Championship despite posting a 17.1 average finish, the lowest ever for&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":221203,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[446],"tags":[49,48,5793,634,8354,8662,82,5794],"class_list":["post-221202","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nascar","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-joey-logano","tag-nascar","tag-nascar-cup-series","tag-nascar-playoffs","tag-sports","tag-team-penske"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221202","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=221202"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221202\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/221203"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=221202"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=221202"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=221202"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}