Joey Logano started second and finished fifth in the No. 22 Shell-Pennzoil Ford Fusion on Monday afternoon at Pocono Raceway. Logano jumped out to the early lead over teammate Brad Keselowski and led the race’s opening 17 laps. At the competition caution, crew chief Todd Gordon stayed with the pre-race strategy of taking four tires while other teams employed two-tire stops and some teams remained on the track. Logano immediately began reclaiming the track position, however, contact with another competitor on a subsequent restart would cost the team valuable track position. Under caution at Lap 62, Gordon called the Shell-Pennzoil Ford to pit road to repair the damage to the left-rear quarter panel and bumper area. After restarting at the tail-end of the lead-lap competitors, Logano again found himself working to regain track position. The team worked themselves back to the top five on Lap 99 and ran inside the top-10 until they pitted at Lap 119. Again, the team went with four tires while others took two tires or remained on the track. Logano restarted 17th but quickly worked inside the top-10 within three laps, and then back to the top-five where he ran until the checkered flag.

“We battled hard today. I got us behind by getting that damage. I rallied back a little bit with some good pit strategy by Todd Gordon and the guys on the box. We were able to rally through on the restarts. The restarts are fun. You win half of them and lose half of them. I had a couple winners and a few losers. Once you get through the restarts it kind of is what it is. It was a fuel mileage game at the end to try to save enough to stay where we were but not give up any spots. Nobody ran out though.”