Joey Logano, NASCAR’s 2018 Cup Champion, is the first driver to lock up a chance to race for the championship in the final race of the year. Logano withstood a furious challenge from Kevin Harvick for more than forty laps after the last round of pit stops and finished less than one-third of a second in front.
Harvick, the 2014 champion, led the most laps in the race but couldn’t get past Logano, who came out of the pits ahead of him for the last green-flag run to the end. The victory makes Logano the first of four drivers who will run for the title in the year’s last race, at Phoenix next month. Alex Bowman, Brad Keselowski and Kyle Busch—last year’s champion—rounded out the top give.
The weather was described as the coldest race in more than five years, with the thermometer reading well into the 40s when the green flag dropped