Joey Logano’s victory in last Sunday’s historic five-overtime race at Nashville Superspeedway launched the two-time NASCAR Cup Series champion into the 2024 Playoffs and with only seven regular season races remaining to decide that 16-driver Playoff field competition is getting intense.
That was evident at Nashville and will be again in this weekend’s Grant Park 165 (4:30 p.m. Sunday on NBC, MRN, SiriusXM NASCAR Radio) on the Chicago Street Course through the iconic downtown lakeside.
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