Team Penske shopmates Brad Keselowski and Joey Logano both participated in arguably the coolest victory celebration in all of NASCAR last season.
Both drivers earned the right to stand at the podium and hoist a gargantuan lobster over their head after winning at New Hampshire Motor Speedway.
Keselowski took the checkered flag at New Hampshire last July, while Logano won there in September, making them the first pair of teammates to ever sweep the track known as “The Magic Mile.”
The duo will try to continue Team Penske’s New Hampshire win streak in Sunday’s 5-hour ENERGY 301 (1:30 p.m. ET on NBCSN).
“Last year was special as we are the only team to sweep both races at New Hampshire to date and that is something we can all feel good about,” said Keselowski, who claims six top-10 finishes in his last seven visits to the New England track. “This team is hungry right now which I think is a good thing. We’re ready to get back to Victory Lane.”
Last week at Kentucky, Team Penske got the closest it’s been to Victory Lane since Keselowski’s win at Auto Club. Logano finished second and Keselowski placed sixth. Both are firmly locked into the Chase for the NASCAR Sprint Cup with one win each, but are off their first-place pace from last season when Keselowski led the series with six victories and Logano ranked tied for second with five.
“All year long, I’ve said we have been just missing some speed in these cars,” Logano said. “But what we are missing in speed, we are making up in execution. That is why we have more top fives and top 10s than we did last year at this point. However, we need to get that speed back to have a chance to win races and that’s what we did last weekend. I think we have as good a shot as anyone.”
New Hampshire serves as a special place for Logano. Not only is it the site of his first career start (Sept. 14, 2008) and win (June 28, 2009), it is also the closest track to his hometown of Middletown, Connecticut.
“I think we had a car that could have won at both (New Hampshire) races last year, we just got wrecked in the first race while we were running second,” Logano said. “That’s stuff that happens. We just need to continue executing and do what we do as a team. This is probably the most important track to me on the schedule because it really is my home track we are doing a lot of stuff with my foundation around the race weekend here. So to win would just cap off an amazing weekend.”
Source: NASCAR Wire Service
