Last year\u2019s Richmond race featured a dramatic overtime ending that ultimately affected the Playoff situation.<\/p>\n
Richard Childress Racing\u2019s Austin Dillon won the race that included eight laps of overtime and hard contact between him and Team Penske\u2019s Joey Logano, who was leading after the overtime re-start.<\/p>\n
In the days following the race, Dillon was ruled ineligible for the Playoffs because of the aggressive move but allowed to keep the win. And Logano was fined $50,000 for his angry reaction post-race, spinning his tires in front of Dillon\u2019s team\u2019s pit stall.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s a year ago and you\u2019ve got to move forward at some point,\u201d Logano said of the frustrating ending to his Richmond race last summer. \u201cGotta go and get sweet redemption.\u201d<\/p>\n
Logano a three-time and the reigning NASCAR Cup Series champion is currently 10th in the Playoff standings having claimed a victory at Texas Motor Speedway in May. He\u2019s had only a pair of top-10 finishes in the last five races, but has wins at both this week\u2019s Richmond track (2017) and is the 2015 Daytona 500 champion.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou\u2019re never where you want to be, you\u2019re always striving for more,\u201d said Logano, driver of the No. 22 Team Penske Ford. \u201cI wish we had a few more Playoff points at this point.<\/p>\n
\u201cWith all that said, been here before and it\u2019s worked out pretty well,\u201d he added with a smile. You\u2019re never out of these things. Just have to stay alive and get through the rounds. We\u2019re definitely starting the Playoffs behind the eight-ball, a little behind where we\u2019d like to be, but like I said, pretty much all three championships looked really similar. It\u2019s okay.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Last year\u2019s Richmond race featured a dramatic overtime ending that ultimately affected the Playoff situation. Richard Childress Racing\u2019s…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":72921,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[446],"tags":[10226,49,48,925,5793,720,634,582,9536,721,722,82,45082],"class_list":{"0":"post-72920","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nascar","8":"tag-austin-dillon","9":"tag-ca","10":"tag-canada","11":"tag-daytona","12":"tag-joey-logano","13":"tag-motor","14":"tag-nascar","15":"tag-racing","16":"tag-richard-childress-racing","17":"tag-series","18":"tag-speedway","19":"tag-sports","20":"tag-texas-motor-speedway"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72920","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=72920"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72920\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/72921"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72920"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72920"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72920"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}