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NASCAR Cup Series

NASCAR Cup Series Championship

Phoenix Raceway

November 6th, 2022

Race #36 of the 2022 NASCAR Cup Series Season

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Laps Scheduled: 312
Miles Raced : 318.9
Time of Race : 02 Hours 58 minutes 42 seconds
Average Speed: 104.757 mph
Margin of Victory : 00.301 seconds
Cautions: 6
Caution Laps: 39
Lead Changes: 11
Cars in Race : 36
Finished On Lead Lap: 21 (58%)

Joey Logano celebrates in victory lane — Avondale, Arizona - November 6th, 2022: Joey Logano, driver of the #22 Shell Pennzoil Ford, celebrates in victory lane after winning the 2022 NASCAR Cup Series Championship at Phoenix Raceway. Photo by Sean Gardner | Getty Images

FIN	ST	Car #	Driver	Make	TOT PTS	F PTS	B PTS	PO PTS	Laps	Led	x Led	S1	S2	STUS
1	1	22	Joey Logano	Ford	40	40	0	6	312	187	5	1	2	Running
2	2	12	Ryan Blaney	Ford	54	35	19	1	312	109	3	2	1	Running
3	25	1	Ross Chastain	Chevrolet	34	34	0	0	312	0	0	0	0	Running
4	3	14	Chase Briscoe	Ford	48	33	15	0	312	11	1	3	4	Running
5	7	4	Kevin Harvick	Ford	41	32	9	0	312	0	0	8	5	Running
6	8	24	William Byron	Chevrolet	39	31	8	0	312	0	0	7	7	Running
7	22	18	Kyle Busch	Toyota	30	30	0	0	312	0	0	0	0	Running
8	21	11	Denny Hamlin	Toyota	29	29	0	0	312	0	0	0	0	Running
9	4	5	Kyle Larson	Chevrolet	38	28	10	0	312	0	0	4	8	Running
10	17	20	Christopher Bell	Toyota	27	27	0	0	312	0	0	0	6	Running
11	14	2	Austin Cindric	Ford	28	26	2	0	312	0	0	10	10	Running
12	16	16	AJ Allmendinger	Chevrolet	0	0	0	0	312	1	1	0	0	Running
13	15	3	Austin Dillon	Chevrolet	24	24	0	0	312	0	0	0	0	Running
14	30	43	Erik Jones	Chevrolet	23	23	0	0	312	0	0	0	0	Running
15	12	19	Martin Truex Jr	Toyota	36	22	14	0	312	0	0	5	3	Running
16	9	41	Cole Custer	Ford	21	21	0	0	312	3	1	0	0	Running
17	10	23	Daniel Hemric	Ford	0	0	0	0	312	0	0	0	0	Running
18	27	7	Corey Lajoie	Chevrolet	19	19	0	0	312	0	0	0	0	Running
19	6	21	Harrison Burton	Ford	18	18	0	0	312	0	0	0	0	Running
20	13	10	Aric Almirola	Ford	17	17	0	0	312	0	0	0	0	Running
21	19	17	Chris Buescher	Ford	16	16	0	0	312	0	0	0	0	Running
22	23	45	Bubba Wallace	Toyota	15	15	0	0	311	0	0	0	0	Running
23	11	8	Tyler Reddick	Chevrolet	18	14	4	0	311	0	0	9	9	Running
24	28	99	Daniel Suarez	Chevrolet	13	13	0	0	311	0	0	0	0	Running
25	20	34	Michael McDowell	Ford	12	12	0	0	311	0	0	0	0	Running
26	32	42	Ty Dillon	Chevrolet	11	11	0	0	311	0	0	0	0	Running
27	26	31	Justin Haley	Chevrolet	10	10	0	0	311	0	0	0	0	Running
28	5	9	Chase Elliott	Chevrolet	9	9	0	0	310	0	0	6	0	Running
29	31	38	Todd Gilliland	Ford	8	8	0	0	309	0	0	0	0	Running
30	34	51	Cody Ware	Ford	7	7	0	0	308	0	0	0	0	Running
31	33	78	BJ McLeod	Ford	0	0	0	0	307	0	0	0	0	Running
32	29	47	Ricky Stenhouse Jr	Chevrolet	5	5	0	0	307	0	0	0	0	Running
33	35	15	Garrett Smithley	Ford	0	0	0	0	304	0	0	0	0	Running
34	24	48	Alex Bowman	Chevrolet	3	3	0	0	304	1	1	0	0	Running
35	18	6	Brad Keselowski	Ford	2	2	0	0	270	0	0	0	0	Electrical
36	36	77	Landon Cassill	Chevrolet	0	0	0	0	84	0	0	0	0	Accident

Race Infractions

NASCAR Cup Series Championship at Phoenix Raceway

Driver	Infraction	Penalty	Lap	Lap Assessed	Flag
Cole Custer	Speeding on pit road	Tail End	64	68	Yellow
Cole Custer	Pitting before pit road is open	Tail End	67	68	Yellow
Landon Cassill	Pitting before pit road is open Garage	Tail End	85	0	Yellow
BJ McLeod	Pitting before pit road is open	Tail End	186	192	Yellow
Brad Keselowski	Pitting before pit road is open	Tail End	191	192	Yellow
BJ McLeod	Pitting before pit road is open	Tail End	191	192	Yellow
Chris Buescher	Pitting before pit road is open	Tail End	192	192	Yellow
Ricky Stenhouse Jr	Pitting before pit road is open	Tail End	198	199	Yellow
BJ McLeod	Pitting before pit road is open	Tail End	198	199	Yellow
Chase Elliott	Pitting before pit road is open	Tail End	201	204	Yellow
Ricky Stenhouse Jr	Pitting before pit road is open	Tail End	203	204	Yellow
BJ McLeod	Pitting before pit road is open	Tail End	203	204	Yellow
Garrett Smithley	Pitting before pit road is open	Tail End	203	204	Yellow
Aric Almirola	Speeding on pit road	Pass Thru	251	254	Green
Alex Bowman	Pitting before pit road is open	Tail End	268	279	Yellow
Martin Truex Jr	Speeding on pit road	Tail End	271	279	Yellow
Alex Bowman	Speeding on pit road	Pass Thru	296	298	Green

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Race Fast Facts

Phoenix Raceway
35th Annual NASCAR Cup Series Championship Race
Race Winner: Joey Logano
Age: 32
Team : No. 22 - Shell Pennzoil Ford
Owner: Team Penske
Crew Chief: Paul Wolfe
Joey Logano won the 35th Annual NASCAR Cup Series Championship Race, his 31st victory in 507 NASCAR Cup Series races.
This is his fourth victory and 17th top-10 finish in 2022.
This is his third victory and 16th top-10 finish in 28 races at Phoenix Raceway.
Ryan Blaney (second) posted his ninth top-10 finish in 14 races at Phoenix Raceway. It is his 17th top-10 finish in 2022.
Ross Chastain (third) posted his second top-10 finish in nine races at Phoenix Raceway.
Austin Cindric (11th) was the highest finishing rookie.
Joey Logano has won the 2022 NASCAR Cup Series Championship. This is Logano's second Cup Series titles (2018, 2022).
Austin Cindric has won the 2022 NASCAR Cup Series Sunoco Rookie of the Year honors.
Chevrolet has won the 2022 NASCAR Cup Series Manufacturers Championship.
CHAMPIONSHIP FAST FACTS
Driver Champion: Joey Logano
Team: No. 22 Team Penske Ford Mustang
Joey Logano has won his second NASCAR Cup Series championship, becoming the 17th different driver to win multiple championships and just the second active driver to win multiple titles (2018, 2022) joining two-time series champion Kyle Busch (2015, 2019).
Logano won the in the NASCAR Cup Series season finale at Phoenix Raceway to claim the 2022 title.
Logano finished the 2022 season with four wins, 11 top fives and 17 top 10s.
During the Playoffs this season, Logano has produced two wins, four top fives, and five top 10s.
Joey Logano, from Middletown, Connecticut, is the first and only driver from the state of Connecticut to win a NASCAR Cup Series championship (2018, 2022).
Owner Champion: Roger Penske, Team Penske
This is Team Penske’s third NASCAR Cup Series driver championship - Brad Keselowski, 2012 and Joey Logano, 2018, 2022 – sixth-most all-time in the series.
This is Team Penske’s third NASCAR Cup Series owner championship - Brad Keselowski, 2012 and Joey Logano, 2018, 2022 - tied with Herb Thomas for sixth-most all-time in the series.
This is Team Penske’s ninth NASCAR national series owner championship (three Cup: 2022, ‘18, ‘20 and six Xfinity: 2021, '20, '17, '15, '14, '13) – ties Petty Enterprises (nine) for the fourth-most all-time.
Team Penske has led 10 different drivers to Victory Lane for a total of 135 NASCAR Cup Series wins – Mark Donahue, Bobby Allison, Rusty Wallace, Jeremy Mayfield, Ryan Newman, Kurt Busch, Brad Keselowski, Joey Logano, Ryan Blaney and Austin Cindric.
Team Penske started their NASCAR Cup Series program in 1972, making their series debut at Riverside International Raceway with driver Mark Donahue.
Crew Chief Champion: Paul Wolfe
Paul Wolfe has won his second NASCAR Cup Series championship: Brad Keselowski in 2012 and Joey Logano in 2022.
Wolfe is one of 44 different NASCAR Cup Series crew chiefs to win a championship and the 16th to win multiple Cup Series titles.
Wolfe has also become the fifth different crew chief in the NASCAR Cup Series to win titles with multiple drivers; joining crew chiefs Bud Moore (Buck Baker 1957 and Joe Weatherly 1962, ‘63); Carl Kiekhaefer (Tim Flock 1955 and Buck Baker 1956), Dale Inman (Richard Petty 1964, ‘67, ‘71, ‘72, ‘74, ‘75, ‘79 and Terry Labonte 1984); and Tim Brewer (Cale Yarborough 1978 and Darrell Waltrip 1981).
Wolfe has 37 career NASCAR Cup Series wins, 29 with Brad Keselowski and eight with Joey Logano.

Race Recap

Joey Logano dominates at Phoenix for second NASCAR Cup title

November 6th, 2022

By Reid Spencer - NASCAR Wire Service

It was the perfect ending to a season Joey Logano started with a win.

Dominating the action in Sunday's NASCAR Cup Series Championship Race at Phoenix Raceway, Logano started on the pole, won the first stage, led a race-high 187 laps, won the race and claimed his second series championship (2018, 2022).

Logano joins two-time champion Kyle Busch as only the second active driver in the series to hold more than one title. The victory was his fourth of the season, his third at Phoenix and the 31st of his career in his 507th Cup start.

Back in February, Logano won the competitive debut of NASCAR's Next Gen car in the exhibition Clash at the Coliseum in Los Angeles. On Sunday, in a sprawling desert city some 370 miles to the east of L.A., he put the finishing touch on a dream season.

Logano finished .301 seconds ahead of Team Penske teammate Ryan Blaney. Championship 4 contender Ross Chastain was closing fast in the final laps and came home third, 1.268 seconds behind Logano on the track and one spot behind the driver of the No. 22 Ford in the final standings.

"We did it!" exulted Logano, the first Ford active driver to hold two championships since David Pearson in 1968-1969. "We're champions again-yes! Oh, my God, I'm so excited. Thank you to everybody, my team. You guys are amazing. Gave me a good race car, good pit stop there at the end, got us up in front. Boy, that was just intense there at the end.

"It's all about championships. That's what it's all about, and we worked so hard the last couple weeks trying to put ourselves in position."

Logano restarted third on Lap 280 after hard contact between the cars of Alex Bowman and Michael McDowell caused the sixth and final caution of the day. Three laps later he passed Chase Briscoe for the lead and opened a lead of nearly three seconds over Chastain, who was pursuing from third place.

Chastain had the faster car in the final 20 laps but ran out of time.

"I had a car fast enough to chase him down at the end," Chastain said. "I think we did everything we could. That was a heck of a drive for us."

A disastrous 19.8-second pit stop under caution on lap 271 cost Championship 4 driver Christopher Bell an opportunity to contend for the win. Bell restarted 16th with 33 laps remaining and worked his way up to 10th at the finish.

"We fought hard, and at the end of the race... (until) the last pit stop, or what we thought was going to be the last pit stop, we were right there battling for it," Bell said. "I'm just proud to be in this position, proud to be at Joe Gibbs Racing and race this No. 20 car. We were there, and hopefully, we can come back here next year.

"The 22 (Logano) was lights-out all weekend. The best car definitely won the championship."

Chase Elliott, the 2020 series champion, wasn't in position to race for the title after Lap 205. In a wild restart, Elliott's No. 9 Chevrolet spun off the nose of Chastain's No. 1 Chevrolet and slammed sideways into the interior SAFER barrier in the dogleg of the one-mile speedway.

Elliott lost a lap in the pits under repairs and lost another on the track on Lap 230. He finished 28th, two laps down, but he scrupulously avoided laying blame for the incident after the race.

"Yeah, just disappointed, obviously, ended our day and ended our chance at a win or a championship," Elliott said. "Just disappointing."

Chastain, on the other hand, provided his in-depth analysis of the wreck.

"William (Byron) didn't get going quite as well as he wanted to, and I got to the left of him," Chastain said. "And I saw an erratic move he (Elliott) made to cover it, and I was already there. Yeah, it's not how I want to race him or those guys."

Ford drivers Chase Briscoe and Kevin Harvick finished fourth and fifth, respectively, followed by William Byron, Kyle Busch (in his final trip for Joe Gibbs Racing), Denny Hamlin, Kyle Larson and Bell.

Before the race, Bell received the news that Coy Gibbs, vice chairman of Joe Gibbs Racing, son of team owner Joe Gibbs and father of NASCAR Xfinity Series champion Ty Gibbs, had passed away in his sleep hours after seeing his son wrap up the title.

"All of a sudden you wake up this morning and you are racing for a championship, and you are happy, you are elated, and then your world comes crashing down," Bell said. "Whenever you get news like that, it puts it in perspective that there is more to this than racing. The whole Gibbs family is in all of our prayers. I'm thinking of them."