{"id":29273,"date":"2016-08-08T11:57:15","date_gmt":"2016-08-08T18:57:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/?p=29273"},"modified":"2016-08-08T11:57:15","modified_gmt":"2016-08-08T18:57:15","slug":"nascar-wrap-up-hamlin-wins-cheez-it-355-logano-zips-up-zippo-200","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/nascar-wrap-up-hamlin-wins-cheez-it-355-logano-zips-up-zippo-200\/","title":{"rendered":"NASCAR Wrap Up: Hamlin Wins Cheez-It 355, Logano Zips up Zippo 200"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Martin Truex Jr., driver of the #78 Furniture Row Toyota, leads Kyle Larson, driver of the #42 Target Chevrolet, during the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series Cheez-It 355 at Watkins Glen International on August 7, 2016 in Watkins Glen, New York. (Photo by Chris Trotman\/Getty Images)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Hamlin Darts to the Lead Winning Cheez-It 355<\/h3>\n

Sunday\u2019s finish in the NASCAR Sprint Cup Cheez-It 355 at the Glen played out like shuffled playing cards with a new leader drawn from the deck trumping the field around every corner and the chaos didn\u2019t stop even after this raucous race.<\/p>\n

The lead was still up in the air coming around the final turn when unlikely road racer and leader, Denny Hamlin claimed his first counter-clockwise win at the newly repaved Watkins Glen International.\u00a0 Going into the last two turns, Martin Truex, Jr. was mounting a charge to go after Hamlin before Brad Keselowski clipped his rear bumper sending him spinning into the turn seven wall.\u00a0 That\u2019s when fourth place runner, Joey Logano pounced on their slowed momentum capturing second at the checkers with Keselowski rolling in third.<\/p>\n

\"Denny
Denny Hamlin, driver of the #11 FedEx Freight Toyota, takes the checkered flag to win.(Photo by Jeff Zelevansky\/NASCAR via Getty Images)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

To make matters worse for Hamlin, he was suffering intense back pain the whole day, hobbling out of his car very gingerly to walk to victory lane after literally blowing out both rear tires in his post race burnout leaving his car on the track.<\/p>\n

“I just woke up with back spasms this morning,” said the Daytona 500 champion. \u00a0“(It) just hits me every three or four months or so. \u00a0I just wake up and can\u2019t move. \u00a0Really doubted being in the race car today, to be honest with you, but can\u2019t say enough about this whole FedEx Freight Toyota team.<\/p>\n

“Should\u2019ve won both road courses (Hamlin was second to Stewart at Sonoma), which is something we never would\u2019ve predicted going into the year. \u00a0Sold out crowd, two years in a row, this is a good time. \u00a0I\u2019ve finally won at all of the (types of) race tracks, so it\u2019s a great accomplishment for us.”<\/p>\n

Keselowski accepted full responsibility for the accident with Truex feeling awful, but afterwards, the No. 78 driver showed his displeasure banging fenders along with a few hand gestures directed at the Miller Lite machine\u2019s driver to emphasize his point.\u00a0 Truex finished seventh.<\/p>\n

“I got right up to the bumper of the 78 (Truex) and couldn\u2019t do anything there, and he made a move to get by the 11 (Hamlin) on the inside, and the 11 blocked him,” Keselowski said. \u00a0“I went high, and the 78 went high and by then I was already deep in the corner and got in and turned him. \u00a0That was really unfortunate, and the last thing I wanted to see:<\/p>\n

“This track here, when you drive into the corner, you commit, and sometimes you don\u2019t know what will happen when you commit.\u00a0 It was another crazy Watkins Glen day.”<\/p>\n

Truex took it all in stride and after his string of bad luck, it\u2019s almost as if he had a premonition of something would happen.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe (Keselowski) said it was his fault.\u00a0 I knew that,\u201d said Truex, sheepishly.\u00a0 \u201cSimple as that.\u00a0 It\u2019s all good.\u00a0 It\u2019s just good, hard racing.\u00a0 I just wanted him to know I wasn\u2019t happy after the race.\u201d<\/p>\n

The top five finishers were Hamlin, Logano, Keselowski with A.J. Allmendinger and Tony Stewart completing the front pack.<\/p>\n

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Denny Hamlin, driver of the #11 FedEx Freight Toyota, celebrates in victory lane. (Photo by Jonathan Ferrey\/NASCAR via Getty Images)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The Chris Buescher watch to make the Chase is on after getting tangled up in a late race accident finishing 30th<\/sup> with David Regan, also in the same accident, is now just three points ahead of Buscher for the coveted No. 30 position in the NASCAR Sprint Cup driver\u2019s standings.<\/p>\n

Jeff Gordon substituting for Dale Earnhardt, Jr. scored a 14th <\/sup>place finish in his 800 start in a career dating back to November of 1992 in Atlanta.<\/p>\n

The NASCAR Sprint Cup teams now take next weekend off and the schedule resumes on Saturday night, August 20, for the running of the Pro Bass Shops NRA Night Race at Bristol Motor Speedway.<\/p>\n

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<\/u>Speedy Logano Rules in Xfinity Zippo 200 at the Glen<\/h3>\n
\"NASCAR
Joey Logano, driver of the #12 Snap-On Ford, takes the checkered flag to win the NASCAR XFINITY Series Zippo 200 at Watkins Glen International on August 6, 2016 in Watkins Glen, New York. (Photo by Jeff Zelevansky\/NASCAR via Getty Images)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The Roger Penske No. 12 Ford Mustang team driven by Joey Logano used a strong pit strategy of quick stops, staying out front to avoid the numerous cautions, and a very fast car to score his 26th<\/sup> NASCAR Xfinity Series victory in the Zippo 200 at the Glen at Watkins Glen International.<\/p>\n

It was clearly Logano\u2019s show leading from the pole for 67 of the 82 laps followed by his teammate Brad Keselowski, who was in close pursuit until he broke a rear track bar retiring three laps from the finish earning a 24th<\/sup>-place finish.<\/p>\n

\u201cBrad gave me a run for my money, that\u2019s for sure,\u201d said Logano, winning for the second consecutive year.\u00a0 \u201cHe was just as fast as me, maybe faster.\u00a0 I never ran so many qualifying laps inside the car.\u00a0 I was running as hard as I possibly could, and I wasn\u2019t sure if my car would last, running that hard, but she held together just long enough.\u201d<\/p>\n

Many multi-car crashes slowed the early pace with perennial favorite Kyle Busch being one of the casualties; ironically, on lap 18, avoiding other spinning cars was caught up in the melee bringing out the red flag for a 20-minute cleanup.<\/p>\n

\"NASCAR
Joey Logano celebrates in victory lane after winning the NASCAR XFINITY Series Zippo 200. (Photo by Matt Sullivan\/Getty Images)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

After the winner, Logano, it was Paul Menard, Kyle Larson, Daniel Suarez and Trevor Bayne rounding out the top five.<\/p>\n

In one for the NASCAR ages, Derrike Cope driver of the 70 Chevrolet slowed down in the bus stop runoff area when suddenly a loud explosion rocked his car lifting the hood off its hinges sending a billow of black smoke blasting skyward.\u00a0 Cope was checked out and released, but was baffled about the cause of the blast.<\/p>\n

The road course racing continues for the NASCAR Xfinity series as the tour heads to Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course next Saturday for the running of the Mid-Ohio 200 airing on USA Network.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Denny Hamlin and Joey Logano win big in Sprint Cup and Xfinity, respectively, this weekend at Watkins Glen.<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":29281,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3424,3470,22],"tags":[4067,4100,4767,1531,547,1529,127,4765,4766,4768],"class_list":["post-29273","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nascar","category-news","category-event-coverage","tag-2016-nascar-sprint-cup-series","tag-2016-nascar-xfinity-series","tag-cheez-it-355","tag-denny-hamlin","tag-jay-wells","tag-joey-logano","tag-nascar","tag-nascar-wrap-up","tag-watkins-glen","tag-zippo-200"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/WGI_NSCS_VL_0807161_Feature.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p42YSK-7C9","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29273","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29273"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29273\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29285,"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29273\/revisions\/29285"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29281"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29273"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29273"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29273"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}