NASCAR CUP SERIES: SOUTH POINT 400

October 12, 2025

Joey Logano

Pit Lane Interview

Q. Joey, do you feel like you made the most out of a challenging day?

JOEY LOGANO: Yeah. I mean, there was moments I thought we were pretty decent, just needed to get track position early in the race. We were good on the long haul, couldn't quite get to cleaner air towards the front because our restarts weren't good up in.

The start of the third stage we lost balance on the car, got way loose, lost all our track position. Paul made a great call again to put two on it, put us on the front row.

That's all you can try to do at that point. I feel like we have to win. Kind of an all-or-nothing call. Netted out ahead of where we would have finished for sure.

You see the front there. Had a decent restart. All kind of came down to the back straightaway at the push. 48 had an option of going three-wide or push the 19. Dang it, he pushed the 19 (laughter). Kind of shoved him ahead to get distance into the corner and three and clear me. Put us in a bad spot.

Overall a good battle, but not good enough.

Q. As you look at Talladega, Team Penske is good at superspeedway racing, you're a three-time winner there. How aggressive will you be?

JOEY LOGANO: I mean, I think it's pretty clear what we got to do looking at the points. I mean, one spot's already taken up. I think we're 24 out. Yeah, it's possible. You have to be pretty special the next two weeks without winning the race.

Today everyone ran so well, right? All the Playoff cars, besides the ones that wrecked, were top five stage points all day. It's hard to close up on 'em.