Joey Logano, Kevin Harvick, Ricky Stenhouse Jr. and Michael McDowell are out of the championship running. Here's where it went wrong.
Even during a season in which Logano has largely been just OK, lacking high-level consistency most weeks, it’s still a bit jarring to see him on the wrong side of the cut line. Despite the deficiencies that slowed the No. 22 team, it felt like he and crew chief Paul Wolfe would find a way to make some noise. That’s essentially what they did a year ago, culminating with them celebrating a championship.
The underlying fact is that Team Penske has struggled across the board with all three of its cars, only being competitive on superspeedways. Penske has a lot of work to do this offseason to match Hendrick Motorsports and Joe Gibbs Racing. It shouldn’t be this far behind. And though Logano won the championship last year, in 2021 he won just a single race, and this year he also has only one victory. This team is better than this.
“It’s still the same team that won the championship last year,” Logano said. “We’re a little lost at the moment, but we’ll keep fighting and try to figure some things out.”Find the speed that’s been missing in their cars. What’s head-scratching about this issue is that outside of superspeedways, the Penske Fords are off-pace almost everywhere. That’s a big hurdle to overcome, but with seven races remaining on a variety of tracks, Penske has an opportunity to experiment.
“I didn’t really have many expectations with how up and down the year has been,” Harvick said. “It is what it is, and that’s probably about what we deserved.”Win. Somehow, someway just find a way to win so Harvick can have one last victory lane celebration before he hangs up his helmet.
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