It was a giant night time for Crew Penske at Richmond Raceway on Saturday, with Joey Logano taking the checkered flag and Austin Cindric ending in third.
Cindric was in want of a robust displaying, coming off of a Twenty ninth-place displaying in Iowa and never having secured a top-10 end since Might. With the No. 2 automobile sitting on the bubble of the Chase standings in sixteenth place heading into the race, there was no room for error, and Cindric and his staff delivered.
“This was the kick within the ass that this staff wanted,” Cindric stated after the race. “The final couple weeks and actually months have been a little bit of a grind for us. Struggling in silence and succeeding in silence in some methods. Tonight was a great way to drop the mirror in entrance and be capable of bear in mind who we’re a little bit bit and exit and execute race.”
Cindric added that the sturdy end was a staff effort that got here with assist from each Logano and Blaney.
“Joey and Ryan, I could not ask for higher teammates from these two guys,” he stated. “It truly is a blast to have the ability to work with these guys, but in addition be taught from these guys. It is a race monitor that I really feel like Joey Logano may end top-five in my rental automobile. It is a spot the place I examine him a lot.”
Watch: Cindric: Logano may end prime 5 ‘in my rental automobile’
Together with his third-place end, Cindric was capable of transfer to fifteenth within the factors standings with two races to go, leaping Shane van Gisbergen to push the No. 97 automobile onto the bubble.
NASCAR heads to New Hampshire subsequent weekend with the battle for place heading into the Chase nonetheless extraordinarily tight.
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