{"id":53097,"date":"2025-06-27T18:45:03","date_gmt":"2025-06-27T23:45:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/racedaysa.com\/?p=53097"},"modified":"2025-06-28T16:15:29","modified_gmt":"2025-06-28T21:15:29","slug":"joey-logano-wins-nascar-cup-series-pole-at-echopark-speedway-on-tiebreaker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/racedaysa.com\/index.php\/2025\/06\/27\/joey-logano-wins-nascar-cup-series-pole-at-echopark-speedway-on-tiebreaker\/","title":{"rendered":"Joey Logano wins NASCAR Cup Series pole at EchoPark Speedway on tiebreaker"},"content":{"rendered":"

By Reid Spencer, NASCAR Wire Service <\/em><\/p>\n

HAMPTON, Ga. \u2013 Joey Logano led an armada of Fords into the top eight starting spot for Saturday night\u2019s Quaker State 400 at EchoPark Speedway (7 p.m. ET on TNT, PRN and SiriusXM NASCAR Radio).<\/p>\n

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Joey Logano, driver of the #22 Autotrader Ford, poses for photos after winning the pole award during qualifying for the NASCAR Cup Series Quaker State 400 Available at Walmart at Echo Park Speedway on June 27, 2025 in Hampton, Georgia. (Photo by Sean Gardner\/Getty Images)<\/p><\/div>\n

Logano clocked in at 30.979 seconds (178.960 mph) in Friday\u2019s qualifying session to secure his first Busch Light Pole Award of the season, his third at EchoPark and the 32nd of his career.<\/p>\n

Logano matched the time posted earlier by Josh Berry of Wood Brothers Racing, but the driver of the No. 22 Team Penske Ford got the nod for the pole on an owner points tiebreaker.<\/p>\n

Ryan Blaney posted the third fastest lap at 178.937 mph, followed by Austin Cindric at 178.626 mph, as Team Penske drivers and the Penske affiliate Wood Brothers locked out the first two rows for Sunday\u2019s race, the opening round of the 32-driver In-Season Challenge.<\/p>\n

Logano faces ninth-place qualifier Alex Bowman in the first round.<\/p>\n

\u201cBeing up front and controlling this race is the name of the game,\u201d said Logano, who won last year\u2019s second Atlanta race, which was held in September. \u201cIf you can get up there and solidify the top position, I feel like you can stay there. The thing is, there are a lot of \u2018What ifs?\u2019 that play out in this race, a lot of cautions that may be timed in a different way, where it can jumble up the field.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s hard to say you\u2019re going to be leading every lap\u2026 The good thing is that we controlled what we could today. I\u2019m super proud of Team Penske, Roush Yates (Engines), Ford, obviously to keep our Mustangs up there. It really shows the ability to repeat from car to car, which is really hard to do.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe tied with the 21 (Berry) and the other cars were within a couple hundredths of a second.\u201d<\/p>\n

Ryan Preece, Brad Keselowski, Cole Custer and Zane Smith completed the Ford sweep of the top eight starting spots. <\/p>\n

Bowman drove the fastest Chevrolet to ninth on the grid, and Pocono Raceway winner Chase Briscoe was 10th in the quickest Toyota.<\/p>\n

Denny Hamlin, top seed in the In-Season Challenge, qualified 33rd but expects his No. 11 Joe Gibbs Racing Toyota to fare better in race trim. Nevertheless, Hamlin starts 19 spots behind Ty Dillon, the driver he has to beat to advance to the second round of the tournament.<\/p>\n

Briscoe, the second seed, starts 17 positions ahead of close friend Noah Gragson, his first-round opponent.<\/p>\n

Qualifying was interrupted by a 30-minute lightning hold, but no rain hit the track despite storms in the area.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

By Reid Spencer, NASCAR Wire Service  HAMPTON, Ga. \u2013 Joey Logano led an armada of Fords into the top eight starting spot for Saturday night\u2019s Quaker State 400 at EchoPark Speedway (7 p.m. ET on TNT, PRN and SiriusXM NASCAR Radio). Logano clocked in at 30.979 seconds (178.960 mph) in Friday\u2019s qualifying session to secure […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":676,"featured_media":53089,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[11],"tags":[52,1107,154,16],"class_list":["post-53097","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nascar","tag-atlanta-motor-speedway","tag-echopark-speedway","tag-joey-logano","tag-nascar"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/racedaysa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/GettyImages-2222520669-scaled.jpg?fit=2560%2C1707","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7hzTZ-dOp","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/racedaysa.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53097","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/racedaysa.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/racedaysa.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/racedaysa.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/676"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/racedaysa.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=53097"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/racedaysa.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53097\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":53099,"href":"http:\/\/racedaysa.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53097\/revisions\/53099"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/racedaysa.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/53089"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/racedaysa.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53097"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/racedaysa.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53097"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/racedaysa.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53097"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}