Joey Logano won the Meijer 300 presented by RITZ Crackers at Kentucky Speedway. Logano won from the pole. He scored his second series win in his 12 starts this season.
Logano is the third driver to score multiple wins in 2009, joining Kyle Busch (four) and Greg Biffle (two).
Logano scored his third career victory in his 31st race. He posted his second victory at Kentucky in his second race and became the first repeat race winner in nine Kentucky races. He also won this race from the pole one year ago.
Logano’s last win came at Nashviile last April.
It was Joe Gibbs Racing’s 34th victory and third by Logano and sixth in 2009. This marked the fourth 1-2 finish for JGR in 2009.
Logano led two times for 20 laps, including the final 10.
Kyle Busch, the points leader entering by 65 over Carl Edwards, finished second. Edwards finished 20th. Busch now leads the points by 137 over Edwards.
Busch has led the most laps in the past seven races, extending a streak that began at Talladega in April. He led six times for 162 laps Saturday night. Busch has led 1,406 laps this season, the most by any driver. He has led the most laps in three of the last four Kentucky races without a victory.
Brad Keselowski (third) extended a streak of 10 consecutive top-15 finishes that began at Bristol. Keselowski finished 22nd, 27th and 27th in the first three races of the season before posting his first top-15 finish of the season at Bristol (12th). Keselowski has been running at the finish in the last 46 races, the longest current streak.
Brendan Gaughan (fourth) posted his second career top-5 finish. He climbed from 10th to seventh in the standings. He was the highest-finishing rookie of the year contender.
Rookie Justin Allgaier (fifth) has scored top-15 finishes in his past five races, extending a streak that began at Darlington. He climbed from eighth to sixth in the point standings.
Jason Leffler (sixth) has finished in the top 10 in the past nine races, extending a streak that began at Nashville in April. This is the longest current streak. Leffler has scored 13 straight top-15 finishes, extending a streak that began at race No. 2 in California in February.
Toyota posted its sixth win in 14 races in 2009. Chevy has four and Ford has four, while Dodge has none.
Carl Edwards (20th) ended a five-race streak of top-10 finishes that began at Richmond.
The top 10 consisted of three Chevys, one Fords, five Toyotas and one Dodge.(ESPN.com)(6-15-2009)
