Joey Logano had a dominant automobile within the 2024 All-Star Race at North Wilkesboro, main a document 199 of 200 laps and he cruised to victory. On Sunday, the No. 22 automobile was dominant as soon as once more and was main late when the Promoter’s Warning got here out on Lap 216.
Throughout the break, Logano and his Penske teammate Ryan Blaney selected an alternate technique from many of the lead automobiles, opting to remain out and never take new tires.
On the next restart, the three-time champion surged previous his teammate and reclaimed the lead, then started wanting in his mirror at a fast-charging Christopher Bell, who had taken two right-side tires on the pit cease.
Joey Logano (22) and Christopher Bell (20) throughout NASCAR All-Star Race at North Wilkesboro Speedway.Peter Casey-Imagn Pictures
For nearly 20 laps the Joe Gibbs Racing driver tried to make his method round Logano, shifting up and down the a number of lanes in an try and move on the 0.625-mile monitor. On Lap 241 after each automobiles handed the start-finish line, Bell dropped down low and acquired contained in the Penske automobile, pushing him up the monitor going into Flip 1. He repeated the transfer going into Flip 3 and by the point the automobiles exited Flip 4, the No. 20 had lastly taken the lead.
Bell held on for the remaining laps and gained his first All-Star Race.
.@joeylogano was pissed off after the All-Star Race and admitted to plans of retaliation for @CBellRacing‘s late race-winning transfer at North Wilkesboro. pic.twitter.com/DbHf0dVMsM
— Kyle Dalton (@kdsportswriter) May 19, 2025
Moments after it was over, Logano spoke to FS1 in regards to the race and famous that transfer specifically.
“I did all I may do to carry him off and he acquired underneath me and launched the brake and gave me no possibility,” Logano mentioned. “Type of simply ran me up into the wall, and if I may’ve acquired to him, he was going round after a transfer like that. I simply could not get again to him. Simply an excessive amount of to attempt to make up with the tire deficit.”
Logano and Bell return to motion subsequent Sunday at Charlotte for the Coca-Cola 600.
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