Having trouble with insomnia? Joey Logano suggests trying to fool yourself to sleep.<\/p>\n
The way Logano sees it, anyone who says the Championship 4 NASCAR Cup Series event is just another race is engaging in self-delusion.<\/p>\n
\u201cI said it last year, and I\u2019ll say it forever, if you say it\u2019s a normal week, it\u2019s just a way to help you sleep\u2014because you can\u2019t sleep,\u201d Logano asserted before Saturday\u2019s final Cup Series practice at Martinsville Speedway.<\/p>\n
Logano ought to know. He has three titles to his credit, earned in 2018, 2022 and 2024. In order to maintain his championship defense this year, however, the driver of the No. 22 Team Penske Ford believes he\u2019ll have to win Sunday\u2019s Xfinity 500, the race that will cut the Playoff field from eight drivers to the final four.<\/p>\n
Still, the win-or-bust scenario in the Round of 8 isn\u2019t as intense as the season finale with the Cup title on the line.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe pressure ratchets up every week,\u201d Logano said. \u201cIt affects you\u2014no doubt. I would assume it affects everyone. I don\u2019t see how it doesn\u2019t. If you care enough about it, you\u2019re going to be digging deep and trying to find that little bit more, and what\u2019s it going to take and all that.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe balance gets pretty off track in the Playoffs a lot of times. What\u2019s your main goal? In this time of year, it\u2019s all about winning championships. Your balance ticks a little more towards\u2026 you might have a little shorter fuse and all those type of things that happen.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Having trouble with insomnia? Joey Logano suggests trying to fool yourself to sleep. The way Logano sees it,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":190090,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[446],"tags":[49,48,10221,5793,26793,634,8354,721,722,82,5794,101331,843],"class_list":["post-240084","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nascar","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-ford","tag-joey-logano","tag-martinsville-speedway","tag-nascar","tag-nascar-cup-series","tag-series","tag-speedway","tag-sports","tag-team-penske","tag-the-balance","tag-xfinity"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240084","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=240084"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240084\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/190090"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=240084"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=240084"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=240084"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}