Joey Logano sits in his car during practice for Saturday night’s NASCAR Sprint Cup Series race at Charlotte Motor Speedway. Photo by Sarah Crabill/Getty Images
With all track activity canceled because of rain on Friday at Charlotte Motor Speedway – a far-reaching effect of Hurricane Matthew – NASCAR Sprint Cup Series drivers won’t have an opportunity to practice between Thursday evening’s knockout qualifying session and Saturday night’s Bank of America 500.
No problem, according to Team Penske drivers Joey Logano and Brad Keselowski, both exuding confidence entering the first race of the Round of 12 in the Chase for the NASCAR Sprint Cup. After all, both drivers spent the vast majority of Thursday’s opening practice in race trim, anticipating the rain.
“It’s no big deal for our race team,” Logano told the NASCAR Wire Service on Friday, during a Team Penske 50th anniversary media luncheon hosted by sponsor Shell/Pennzoil. “We did spend a lot of time in race trim yesterday, but at this point, with the 22 team, we’ve worked together for a while now. (Crew chief) Todd (Gordon) knows what I want in a race car. We have notes to go off of, not only from the spring or last year, but from Chicago and other mile-and-a-half race tracks we just went to.
“There’s always items that we want to try and change and make the car better, but I feel like Team Penske does a great job on showing up at the track with a fast race car a lot of times – or a well-balanced race car – and being able to fine-tune the adjustments to make it a tick better.”
Logano won last year’s Chase race at Charlotte during a No. 22 Ford sweep of the Round of 12. Keselowski has good notes, too. He finished fifth in the Coca-Cola 600 at Charlotte in May, a week after running second to Logano in the NASCAR Sprint All-Star Race.
Keselowski, who won the Bank of America 500 in 2013, doesn’t think lack of practice will be an issue.
“I don’t, because we practiced all in race trim, so I was very thankful for the time we spent in that capacity and the speed that we had,” said the 2012 series champion.
Keselowski and Logano both are doing double duty this weekend, but the rainout postponed Friday night’s scheduled Drive for the Cure 300, the final event in the NASCAR Xfinity Series Chase’s Round of 12, until Sunday at 11 am. So a night race that was supposed to run before the Cup event has become a day race that will follow it.
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Kyle Busch Optimistic About His Chances At Charlotte
Kyle Busch has won a points race at every active NASCAR Sprint Cup Series track with only two exceptions: Pocono and Charlotte.
But that could change on Saturday night – at Charlotte, at least – If Busch’s No. 18 Joe Gibbs Racing Toyota lives up to the expectations of the defending series champion. Even though Busch has never won in 25 starts at Charlotte, he’s always been quick under the lights at the 1.5-mile track.
“I think when we were here in the spring, we had a pretty good car,” Busch said. “In the All-Star race, for sure, we were pretty fast there – had a shot to win until the driver sped on pit road and screwed that up.
“And here last year, we were OK during the day race because it ran on Sunday, and so it just all kind of depends with what’s kind of going on, where your setup’s at, how the field stacks up, so with all those things you just try to throw your best ideas at it, and (Crew chief) Adam (Stevens) is pretty good at that.”
Though Busch couldn’t make a move on the track because of Friday’s rain, he did make a move as a team owner, announcing that fellow Las Vegas native Noah Gragson will drive full-full time for Kyle Busch Motorsports next year in the NASCAR Camping World Truck Series.
A product of the NASCAR Next program, Gragson was NASCAR K&N Pro Series West rookie of the year in 2015. This season, he has accumulated four victories in 26 starts in the NASCAR K&N Pro Series East and Pro Series West combined.
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