Joey Logano on what cost him a win at Martinsville

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Joey Logano had a fantastic race again, this time in Martinsville. He showed maturity and quality, but still not enough for the first place. William Byron eventually took the win, and Logano believes he had to be a little more aggressive “You’ve got to punt them a little bit harder with this car, it seems like, but it was all I could do to get to him.

That was kind of the tough part — his car was superior to mine into the corner for sure,” Joey Logano said, as quoted by firstsportz. Everything he tried was not enough. “That’s where the Hendrick cars have been strong all year; they get into the corner harder than anybody.

So, it was all I could do to get to him. Getting to him and bumping him, and me trying to make the turn, it’s just all too much and I couldn’t quite get it done,” Joey Logano continued.

Turn 1

Turn 1 could have changed some things, but Byron showed quality in those moments.

"(I) thought, OK, here’s my chance. Went into (Turn) 1 on the white flag lap and got to him and tried to root him up a little bit and I did, but not quite enough. And then he kind of was able to turn back down and just stop me at the two-thirds.

We were going to the gas, he hit the brakes and it just checked me up big, which was the right move,” Joey Logano said. Logano missed a good chance, but it is a long season and he will surely have more good results. “He brake-checked the heck out of me and he should have and it worked for him.

Then I was just too far back into (Turn) 3. My chance was into (Turn) 1 to try to get him up next to me and didn’t quite get the job done there,” Joey Logano added.