BRISTOL, Tenn. \u2013 Team Penske\u2019s Joey Logano captured his third NASCAR Cup Series victory of the 2026 season Saturday night at Bristol Motor Speedway, winning the Bass Pro Shops Night Race and earning his 38th NASCAR Cup Series victory with Ford.<\/p>\n
The victory marked the 113th NASCAR Cup Series win for Team Penske with Ford, Ford\u2019s 755th win in NASCAR Cup Series competition, and made Joey the winningest NASCAR Cup Series driver in Team Penske history. Ford Racing teammates Joey Logano, Ryan Blaney and Ryan Preece have combined to win six of the last 10 races.<\/p>\n
\u201cCongratulations to Roger, Mike, Paul, Joey and everyone at Team Penske on the win,\u201d said Doug Yates, President and CEO of Roush Yates Engines. \u201cThe #22 Team Penske Ford Mustang was fast throughout the race, won Stage 1, and capitalized on running up front at the end. I\u2019m proud of our team, our partnership with Ford Racing, and Ford Racing Teams.\u201d<\/p>\n
Qualifying for Saturday night\u2019s race was canceled due to lightning and bad weather, with the starting lineup set by NASCAR\u2019s performance-based metric. Logano started second, while Team Penske teammate Austin Cindric started ninth.<\/p>\n
The Team Penske Ford Mustangs stayed on track during Lap 40 competition caution to maintain track position. As pit strategies varied during the first natural caution, Logano remained on the track and went on to win Stage 1. Ryan Blaney led a race-high 202 laps and finished Stage 1 in sixth position. Blaney restarted from the P1 to begin Stage 2 and went on to win the stage, earning valuable championship points.<\/p>\n
During the final stage, a late caution on Lap 477 set up a dramatic finish. With six laps remaining, Logano moved past three cars battling for the lead and secured the victory at one of NASCAR\u2019s most iconic short tracks.<\/p>\n
\u201cI love NASCAR racing. This is so much fun and to be a part of it is electric. Being here at Bristol. Hearing the fans scream and yell. What else can you want? Our cars have been good and have been getting better. Paul has been doing good. Joe\u2019s been awesome. The pit crew has been good. I\u2019ve got a great team. We\u2019ve got a team that knows how to win championships. I thought there for a minute I was like, \u2018OK, I might just finish third or fourth here tonight,\u2019 and then they all kind of worked their way up and I was like, \u2018Well, Merry Christmas to me.\u2019 I got a gift there. There\u2019s nothing like the Bristol Night Race. This is just the coolest experience as a race car driver being in front of all you fans down here, hearing everyone scream and cheer \u2013 sometimes boo, that\u2019s alright. It\u2019s pretty awesome.\u201d commented Logano.<\/p>\n
Wood Brothers Racing\u2019s Josh Berry finished sixth, while RFK Racing\u2019s Ryan Preece finished 10th at Bristol.<\/p>\n
The NASCAR Cup Series now heads to Kansas Speedway for the Hollywood Casino 400 on Sunday, September 27, at 3:00 p.m. ET.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BRISTOL, Tenn. \u2013 Team Penske\u2019s Joey Logano captured his third NASCAR Cup Series victory of the 2026 season…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":904591,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[446],"tags":[49,48,634,82],"class_list":["post-904590","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nascar","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-nascar","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/904590","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=904590"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/904590\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/904591"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=904590"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=904590"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=904590"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}