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SPORTS Friday, November 16, 2018 East Oregonian Page 3B The Big Three and Joey Logano in NASCAR title race lot,” Busch continued. Logano smartly closed the subject: “It’s best if I keep my mouth shut on this one,” he said. Indeed, the most inter- esting thing to emerge from NASCAR’s championship preview day was the con- fusion on how Logano and Truex plan to race each other Sunday. Truex had vowed not to let Logano win the championship after Logano moved him out of the way last month at Martinsville. Forced to spend the better part of two days together as a group, Logano and Truex at one point apparently dis- cussed the situation. Their interpretation of that conversation now dif- fers as Truex claims he’d “absolutely” move Logano out of his way to win the championship. “I have a free pass. He already told me I could. He told me he’s fair game. So here we go,” Truex said. Logano recalled the talk differently. “I didn’t tell him that. I said ‘Hey, I expect to get raced the way I race peo- ple,”’ Logano said. “I’m a hard racer. I expect to get raced hard. I said it before, we didn’t crash each other. I didn’t crash him. Moved him up enough to have a drag race. That’s what I explained to him.” No matter how it plays out, the four title contend- ers expect to control the race Sunday in a thrilling push to the winner-take-all Cup championship. Since the elimination format was introduced in 2014, the champion has won Home- stead to win the title every year. “I think there’s about a 99 percent chance that one of these guys is going to win (the race) to win the championship,” Truex said. “That’s what you come down here prepared for as a group, as a team, as a driver, and that’s your goal com- ing here to win, and then you can guarantee yourself a championship.” By JENNA FRYER AP Auto Racing Writer MIAMI BEACH, Fla. — Kyle Busch, Kevin Harvick and Martin Truex Jr. sat on a bench, scrolling through their phones, oblivious to their surroundings and the stakes. Joey Logano was a room away, mingling in the back of a ballroom, grinning ear- to-ear and totally at ease. “It’s the Big Three and me,” Logano shrugged. “I might be the underdog in the stats standpoint, but we sure don’t feel like we are.” Logano is the outcast, statistically and socially, of Sunday’s champion- ship field. He wasn’t picked to advance to the Home- stead-Miami Speedway finale but he’s part of the championship party because he used his bumper to move Truex out of his way and win at Martinsville Speedway. That victory put Logano in the finale, where the so-called Big Three were always supposed to be, and Logano is seemingly just along for the ride. But he doesn’t view it that way and thinks this championship might be his to lose. “You have to have that confidence,” Logano said. “I feel like our team is in a great spot. We’re ready to get to Sunday and see what happens.” NASCAR shipped the four title contenders off to New York City this week for a full day of promotional activities, then brought them together Thursday for the opening of championship weekend. They had lunch together, filmed a segment on the beach for “The Today Show,” then previewed the title race in a posh South Beach hotel. It hardly made for a tense or dramatic lead-in to what is expected to be the most competitive championship race since this playoff for- mat was launched in 2014. Harvick won the 2014 title, Busch grabbed the crown AP Photo/Terry Renna, File In this May 19, 2018, file photo, Joey Logano looks from the garage after practice for the NASCAR All-Star auto race at Charlotte Motor Speedway in Concord, N.C. David Pearson, NASCAR’s Silver Fox, dies at 83 By JENNA FRYER AP Auto Racing Writer David Pearson, the NASCAR pioneer known as “The Silver Fox” for his cunning craft and a long- time rivalry with Richard Petty, has died. He was 83. The Wood Brothers Racing team said Pear- son died Monday night in Spartanburg, South Car- olina, where he was born and lived most of his life. Details were not immedi- ately available. Pearson was one of NASCAR’s first super- stars along with Petty, Bobby Allison and Cale Yarborough, and they raced all over the country as the cornerstone during NASCAR’s period of slow growth beyond a regional racing series. Pearson was a three-time Cup cham- in 2015 and Truex is the defending series champion. The trio combined to win 20 of 35 points races this sea- son, while Logano has two victories but had the steadi- pion, his 105 career victo- ries trail only Petty’s 200 on NASCAR’s all- time list, and he was inducted into the second class of the NASCAR Hall of Fame. Pearson Pearson’s career paralleled Petty’s and the two combined for 63 finishes in which they finished first and second to each other. Pearson won 33 of the battles. “I have always been asked who my toughest competitor in my career was. The answer has always been David Pear- son,” Petty said late Mon- day night. “David and I battled each other for wins, most of the time finish- ing first or second to each other. It wasn’t a rivalry, est playoff run. Asked Thursday if this is the most competitive four- driver finale since the for- mat launched in 2014, it was Harvick who noted it but more mutual respect. David is a Hall of Fame driver who made me better. He pushed me just as much as I pushed him on the track. We both became better for it.” Pearson beat Petty in the 1974 Fire- cracker 500 at Daytona International Speedway when Petty was glued to his bumper on the final lap. Pearson then let off the gas slightly as Petty dropped out of his wake, Petty pulled up along- side Pearson and passed him. With the finish line in sight, Pearson then used a slingshot pass out of the high banked final turn to zip past Petty and snatch the victory. Two years later in the actually isn’t much differ- ent than last season when The Big Three raced against Logano teammate Brad Keselowski. “It’s the same four orga- Daytona 500, Pearson and Petty collided near the fin- ish line. Both cars slid into the grass, Petty was unable to restart his engine and Pearson got the win when he limped his damaged car across the finish line. Pearson began on the short tracks of the Car- olinas, graduated to NASCAR in 1960, and his championships came in the only three seasons — 1966, 1968 and 1969 — in which he competed in the entire NASCAR schedule. Pearson won titles with the Cotton Owens and Holman-Moody teams, then moved to Wood Brothers Racing in the 1970s to form one of the greatest partnerships in the series’ history. Pearson won 11 of 18 races driving the Woods’ iconic No. 21 Ford in 1973. nizations from last year,” Harvick said. “It just depends on if Joey is a better driver than Brad,” Truex added. “They both run into you a EASTERN OREGON marketplace Place classified ads online at www.easternoregonmarketplace.com or call 1-800-962-2819 between 8 a.m. and 5 p.m. Monday through Friday. After hours, leave a voicemail and we’ll confirm your ad the next business day. 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