Start: 4th |  Finish: 12th  | Points: 11th

Stage One: 10th  |  Stage Two: 3rd 

Joey Logano led a race-high 83 laps in a 12th-place finish Sunday afternoon at Atlanta Motor Speedway. After taking the green flag from the outside of row two, Logano challenged for the lead early on in the 400-mile event while battling a lack of grip throughout the opening run of the day, ultimately resulting in a 10th-place finish in Stage 1. The 22 crew’s first stop of the day resulted in Logano winning the race off pit road as he went on to control the race for the majority of the second stage. A caution with 10 laps remaining in the stage brought the field back together for a four-lap shootout as Logano forced a three-wide battle coming to the green-and-white checkered flag, but settled for third in the running order in Stage 2. Following a four tire stop and a round of adjustments prior to the final run of the day, Logano navigated through three-wide battles in the middle of the pack as he climbed his way back up the leaderboard with the laps ticking off. Logano raced his way back into the top-five by lap 200, but the handling of the Shell-Pennzoil Ford in traffic plagued his charge to the front. A caution with three to go set up an overtime restart where Logano’s momentum was halted on the final lap, as the No. 21 was turned in front of him on the backstretch and was scored 12th at the time of the caution. Logano’s 83 laps led Sunday increases his career total to 1,168 laps led at drafting tracks, marking the most among active drivers after surpassing Denny Hamlin’s previous mark of 1,152.

“It was just challenging all day. We had a really fast car and when we were up front we could control it really well. When we had a couple Fords up front it was domination and then when I got in the back I didn’t handle well enough. It just cost us too much back there and I couldn’t move my way back up. Every time I got a gap it just wasn’t good enough to get back up there handling-wise, so the car was fast but we just needed more steering.”

WHAT’S NEXT:The NASCAR Cup Series travels to Austin, Texas, for its next stop at Circuit of the Americas. The race will be broadcast live Sunday, March 2 at 3:30 p.m. ET on FOX with in-car camera angles available all race long through MAX Driver Cam.