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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
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