Joey Logano powered to the front late in Sunday’s race at Las Vegas Motor Speedway and won the 400-miler, gathering an automatic berth in the championship race Nov.
6 at Phoenix. Logano passed Ross Chastain, the leader, with three laps to go and led the rest of the way. He won by .817 of a second.
The year’s breakthrough driver, Chastain was fast over the final miles but couldn’t hold off Logano, who had fresher tires. Chastain, who led a race-high 68 laps, pushed to the front in the race’s final stage and built leads up to two seconds as the final miles approached, but Logano gained on him steadily over the last 10 laps and made the winning pass with relative ease. “Man, what a great car,” Logano said. “Penske cars were all fast.
All of them were really fast today. Oh, man, all you want to do is get to the Championship Four when the season starts and race for a championship, and we’ve got the team to do it.