Joey Logano shares his perspective of NASCAR overtime debate after Nashville win

Joey Logano, who won the Cup Series race at Nashville Superspeedway on Sunday, seems to have no issues with the race having five overtimes. While speaking to reporters after the race, the two-time Cup Series champion was asked about the multiple overtimes and if NASCAR needs to change the rule again.

 “I mean, it obviously got pretty — anytime you have your cars running out of gas, there’s a caution and you get going, they wreck because everyone is out of gas and all that, you’re refiring on old tires, everyone is sliding around, gosh, you kind of can see it coming a little bit,” Logano said.

“But gosh, I don’t know what you — I think you just keep doing it. I don’t know. That’s the rule. You keep doing it.”

Despite the five overtimes and nearly running out of gas, Logano won the race to clinch a spot in this year’s Cup Series playoffs. The 34-year-old has competed in a lot of Cup Series races in his career but never had a finish like he had on Sunday.

“Not that comes to mind. Nothing that comes to mind that was like that,” Logano told reporters. “Yeah, like I said, just a big one. Something that’s cool, too, is the last eight weekends, Team Penske has put a car in Victory Lane across all the series that they race. We were the only ones that could do it this weekend because we were the only ones running. It was close, but it was cool to keep that streak alive for everyone at the race shop.”

How Joey Logano overcame his fuel situation at Nashville

Logano and Team Penske gambled and ran 110 laps on a final tank of fuel. When asked about winning despite the gas situation, Logano wasn’t sure how he was able to pull it off.

 “It takes a little bit of everything,” he said. “I think that’s really what it was. There was obviously a lot of cautions within that period. A lot of cautions. Like I said, we didn’t feel comfortable about it, but you go for it, and it’s pretty risky when you think about where we were in the playoff grid. You really can’t afford to have a bad one, but gosh, it’s really hard to pit when you’re in the lead and you’re in position to win the race. “You just go for it and cross your fingers, say a couple prayers, and it worked out all right.”