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Joey Logano Falling Out of Playoff Picture Despite Other Contenders' Crashes
Although Joey Logano has a knack for winning the first race of the penultimate round of the NASCAR playoffs en route to the championship, he perhaps surprisingly wasn't much of a factor in Sunday's Las Vegas race. After starting ninth, he consistently ran in the back of the top 10 until a pit stop during the Stage 2 caution relegated him to the middle of the pack. He never really recovered until a two-tire stop on the race's final caution elevated him to second. He ultimately fell to sixth when the cars that took four tires passed him, leading one lap when he beat Chase Briscoe to the line on the final restart. However, while he benefited from William Byron and his teammate Ryan Blaney's crashes, he was so far behind on playoff points to begin with that he remains a long shot to make the Championship 4, especially since he's a lot less likely to win than Blaney or Byron are. He now sits 48 points out of the points lead and 24 points below the playoff cut line.
Source: Racing Reference
Source: Racing Reference
