Joey Logano walks in the garage area during practice for Sunday’s NASCAR Sprint Cup Series race at Phoenix International Raceway. Photo by Robert Laberge/NASCAR via Getty Images
When Matt Kenseth wrecked Joey Logano at Martinsville Speedway and put his title hopes in dire jeopardy, there were more cheers than boos from the grandstands at the legendary short track.
But Logano tries not to let any negative reaction faze him, even when fans made snide comments in response to one of the Team Penske driver’s Instagram posts this weekend. Logano even found some of the potshots amusing.
“I have great fans, awesome fans, but then there are a few that just come up, and I start laughing because it’s so creative,” Logano said. “I’m like, ‘Wow, I didn’t know I sucked on so many different levels.’ It was interesting to me. Maybe I’m just the type of guy that laughs at everything, and I have fun with life and I don’t regret living that way.
“I use it as motivation. I try to use everything and try to spin it into something positive. It’s something I’ve done in my life, especially recently, is spin things into a positive and try to look at the bright side of things. I think it really helps my attitude. I think it helps us as a race team because attitudes are contagious.”
Logano will need all the optimism he can muster on Sunday. The only way he can advance to the Championship Round of the Chase for the NASCAR Sprint Cup is by winning the Quicken Loans Race for Heroes 500 at Phoenix International Raceway.
Reporters Honor Gordon During Informal Ceremony At Phoenix
On Saturday morning, next to the NASCAR transporter in the Sprint Cup Series garage, reporters gathered to honor Jeff Gordon for his benevolence and accessibility to the media over his 24-year career.
Organized by veteran writers Mike Hembree and Kenny Bruce, the informal ceremony included the presentation of a gift the reporters knew Gordon didn’t already have — a trophy from Kentucky Speedway, the only active NASCAR Sprint Cup Series track where Gordon has never won.
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The media originally wanted to honor Gordon at Homestead-Miami Speedway, but that was before Gordon won the Nov. 1 race at Martinsville and qualified for the Championship Round of the Chase for the NASCAR Sprint Cup.
Gordon promised that, if he should win a fifth champion at Homestead, his emotional celebration at Martinsville would pale in comparison with the exultation he would feel at ending his career in the No. 24 Chevrolet as a champion.
“Just like in Martinsville, I didn’t go into that race expecting us to win or think about what that was going to be like if we did win,” Gordon said. “But you saw the raw emotion of what that win meant to me.
“That’s nothing compared to what you’ll see in Homestead if we do that. I literally will be climbing the fences. I’ll be down with a bad back for the next week, but it will all be worth it.”
Short Strokes
Kurt Busch, another driver in dire need of a Phoenix victory to keep his championship hopes intact, led both Saturday practice sessions at the one-mile track. Busch, who qualified second for Sunday’s Sprint Cup event, also showed excellent speed in race trim, posting a lap at 139.627 mph in Saturday morning’s practice and 140.029 mph in Happy Hour…
Team owner Richard Petty confirmed during a meeting with reporters on Saturday morning that former Indianapolis 500 winner Sam Hornish, Jr. will not return to the No. 9 Richard Petty Motorsports Ford in 2016. Petty, however, was not ready to name a replacement for Hornish, who has only three top-10 finishes in 34 races this season. “We’ve got to look at sponsorship as much as anything else,” Petty said. “It’s a combination deal. We can’t just go with a driver and then not have the money, and we can’t go with just the money and not have a driver, so it’s going to be interesting.”
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