Logano wins the OneMain Financial 200 at Dover

[media-credit name=”Tammyrae Benscoter” align=”alignright” width=”225″][/media-credit]Joey Logano won the NASCAR Nationwide Series (NNS) OneMain Financial 200 at Dover International Speedway on Saturday for his seventh win of the season and 16th of his career.

Logano dominated the race by leading 184 of the 200 laps.

“I told Adam (Stevens, crew chief) that my monster trophy from last time was lonely and needed a friend — so I’m glad I was able to get one for him. This was the last race for SportClips for the year so I was happy to be able to get them another victory.” Logano said.

Paul Menard finished second, Michael Annett third, Elliott Sadler fourth and Kyle Busch rounded out the top 5.

Darrell Wallace Jr. started on the pole for the first time in his career. He was looking for a spot better then yesterday when he finished second in the K&N East Series. He led the into turn one but Justin Allgaier took over the lead on the backstretch and led the first lap. Wallace Jr. fell back to third, behind Logano.  Logano took over the lead from Allgaier on lap 14 and Brian Scott moved all the way up to 17th after starting 38th.

The first caution waved on lap 45 for the competition caution due to overnight rain. All of the leaders came in to pit. Sadler came in saying he was tight in the center and loose off the turns. He got a adjustment and four tires with fuel and was off. Kasey Kahne took some strategy and only took two tires to win the race off pit road. Logano said he started the race very tight but it quickly went to loose, especially on landing. He got a adjustment, four tires and fuel and left the pits.

Kahne led them to the green but got quickly booted out of the way on the restart. Logano planned it perfectly and took the lead into the turn 1 and pulled away from Kahne. Kahne held the second spot while Allgaier and Busch got together and bumped finders but both were able to continue.

Logano continued to lead when they reached the half way point with only one caution due to the competition caution. Logano has led 80 of the 100 laps that have been completed and has lapped all but 19 cars. Allgaier, Kahne,Busch and Dillon rounded out the top 5

The second caution waved with 84 laps to go when the No.51 of Jeremy Clements was smoking from his left front tire.  It was a possible wheel bearing that snapped or broke. Everybody will be really close of making it to the end with fuel but everybody will come in. Logano led them in telling his crew he wanted to turn better. He got a slight air pressure adjustment and four tires and fuel. His Crew Chief, Adam Stevens, told him to save fuel as they are very very close to the finish. Busch followed him in telling Mike Beem he was a too loose and wanted a spring rubber out of the left rear. He also got tape on the nose while they put in that very valuable fuel and four tires. Allgaier stopped in his pit box saying he had no rear grip. He got four tires and an adjustment and beat everybody off of pit road.

The green flag waved on lap 124 with Logano leading them to the strip. He was trying to pull away but Allgaier was not letting him go away and kept with the No.18.  He got within car lengths of Logano but his left rear tire started smoking going into one and they had to go behind the wall for repairs.

With 36 laps to go, Sam Hornish Jr told his crew,  he is coming to them because his right rear was down. They came on in and fixed it but he fell to 18th, one lap down after running second before that problem.

The third Caution came out when the No.39 of Tim Andrews started smoking and blew his engine. No lead laps cars came in due to track position and so few laps to go.

Green flag waved with 18 laps to go with Logano leading. Kahne missed a shift or did not go at the restart which stacked up the whole inside line. They all went 3-4 wide to avoid him. Kahne fell all the way back to 12th after the restart.

Stenhouse Jr. and Dillon bumped fenders going into 3 and 4. Stenhouse Jr. finished 9th and Dillon finished 10th.

Stenhouse Jr. is now nine points behind the series points leader Sadler.

“This hasn’t ever been one of our best race tracks, so I guess out of the ones left this was the one we didn’t think we would be the greatest at, but we’ve got some great race tracks left. Last week might have been a disappointing finish, but we had a dominating car so we can hang our hat on that. Today, we can’t really hang our hat on anything, so we’ll just go on.” Stenhouse Jr. said.