Logano wins at Michigan

Coors Light Pole Award winner Joey Logano soared to victory Sunday at Michigan International Speedway, notching his first win of the NASCARSprint Cup Series season.

Logano led 138 of the 200 laps, guiding the Team Penske No. 22 Ford to a victory over runner-up Chase Elliott on the 2-mile track. Logano's second Michigan win was the 15th of his Sprint Cup career, making him the 10th winner in the Sprint CupSeries this season. He also prevailed in the non-points NASCAR Sprint All-Star Race earlier this season at Charlotte Motor Speedway.

The race marked the 100th premier series victory for Roush Yates Engines. ATeam Penske win also made it 50 victories for Team Penske with Ford as their manufacturer.

Sunoco Rookie of the Year candidate Elliott finished a career-best second, leading twice for 35 laps in the Hendrick Motorsports No. 24 Chevrolet. Kyle Larson,Brad Keselowski and Kevin Harvick rounded out the top five.

Tony Stewart, making his just his seventh Sprint Cup start of the season after a recovery from an offseason back injury, finished seventh in the Stewart-Haas RacingNo. 14 Chevrolet.

Martin Truex Jr. led 10 laps early but spun to bring out the first yellow flag of the day on Lap 46. Truex's Furniture Row Racing No. 78 Toyota got loose running in close quarters with the No. 15 Chevrolet of Clint Bowyer. After righting his car, Truex recovered to finish 12th.

Two former Michigan winners -- Kyle Busch and Dale Earnhardt Jr. -- were sidelined early. Busch finished last in the 40-car field after the engine in hisJoe Gibbs Racing No. 18 Toyota expired in a fiery detonation after completing 52 laps.

It marked the fourth straight finish of 30th or worse for the reigning Sprint Cupchampion.

"There's nothing you can do to change it around," said Busch, a three-time winner this year. "You're not going to go to the luck store and buy any. We had a lot of good fortune go our way at the beginning part of the season I guess. We still had blown tires that hurt us, but we're either top four or we're bottom four. There is no absolute in-between for us."

Earnhardt was caught up in a crash that also forced AJ Allmendinger out of the race. Rookie Chris Buescher's No. 34 Ford slid up into Earnhardt'sHendrick Motorsports No. 88 Chevrolet, sending Earnhardt up into Allmendinger's No. 47 Chevy. Buescher continued after the impact, but both Earnhardt and Allmendinger made substantial contact with the outside wall at Turn 2's exit.

"He must have just lost the nose of his car," Earnhardt said of Buescher. "I hate it, but you try to take care of each other out there. We all try to race hard, and I wish he would have taken better care of us. He just lost the car and hit the quarter panel. It happens, though. I'm angry, but I won't be too upset about it later. It's frustrating right now because we had a good car and I was happy with the way the car drove."

The race was a trial for new aerodynamic rules designed to reduce downforce and sideforce. Though teams sampled the new packaged during practice and qualifying Friday and Saturday, Sunday's 400-miler was the first dry run with a full field.

Several restarts were dicey, and the effect of decreased stabilization in the corner made cars a handful for the drivers on a sunny, seasonable Sunday in the state's Irish Hills region. The restarts intensified as the race reached its latter stages.

The Sprint Cup Series' next race is scheduled June 26 at Sonoma Raceway (3 p.m. ET, FS1, PRN, SiriusXM NASCAR Radio). With NASCAR's top division taking the week off, the XFINITY and Camping World Truck Series will visit Iowa Speedway this weekend for a national series doubleheader.

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