Joey Logano Charlotte Motor Speedway Preview

HOW IMPORTANT IS IT TO WIN SATURDAY AND GET THAT AUTOMATIC BERTH TO THE NEXT ROUND?

“It’s huge. This round is probably one of the most important rounds even with Talladega involved. There’s no telling what’s gonna happen there, so when you look at Charlotte and Kansas – the first two races of this round – they’re super-important. If you can win, you’re gonna be sleeping a lot better at night because you feel a lot better about getting through Talladega. Even if you get two top fives in these next two races, I don’t know how comfortable you feel even then going into Talladega and what is gonna happen there because there are just so many unknowns. You can be running fifth one lap and 20th the next lap in Talladega, or you can be running up front and the next thing you know you’re crashed. There are just so many unknowns. The likelihood of crashing there is so high. We’ve seen some upsets last year in this round of certain cars getting knocked out of the Chase that we thought would be racing forward in the final four, so it’s just kind of hard to sleep well unless you win one of these next two races.”