Start: 18th |  Finish: 13th  | Points: 9th

Stage One: 11th  |  Stage Two: 2nd 

Joey Logano came away with a 13th-place finish Sunday at Darlington Raceway. After rolling off from 18th starting position, the Shell-Pennzoil Ford Mustang worked its way into the top 10 during the latter stages of the opening segment before crossing the line 11th in Stage 1. Logano continued to keep top 10 pace throughout Stage 2 as the No. 22 team opted to run long in the green flag pit cycle, vaulting him to second in the running order before the caution flew on lap 138 to set up a front row position for the ensuing restart with 42 laps left in the stage. Logano maintained his pace for the remainder of the run following the four tire stop under caution to pick up a second-place finish in Stage 2. After taking the green flag with 100 laps remaining, Logano settled into fifth in the running order before being called to pit road early in the cycle, allowing him to reach second on the leaderboard with 45 laps to go. As tire falloff became a factor in the late stages of the run, Logano fell to sixth when the caution flag flew with four laps to go, setting up one final round of pit stops prior to the green-white-checkered finish. An issue on the stop resulted in Logano taking the green flag from 11th before taking the checkered flag 13th following the two-lap shootout.

“It was a hard-fought day for our 22 crew. Our strategy calls kept putting us in contention in the first two stages and during the final green flag run. We just didn’t have enough to keep pace on the final run there, but I thought we could maintain in the top 10 if we ran it out to the end. It didn’t fall our way on that final cycle, but we’ll keep moving forward.”

WHAT’S NEXT:The NASCAR Cup Series heads to Bristol Motor Speedway on Sunday, April 13. Live coverage of the Food City 500 begins at 3:00 p.m. ET on FS1 with in-car camera angles available all race long through MAX Driver Cam.