By AMANDA VINCENT
Joey Logano claimed his third-career Richmond (Va.) Raceway win at the NASCAR Cup Series level Saturday night in the Cook Out 400. It was his second win of the 2026 season.
“It’s a great recovery, so far,” Logano said. “There’s a long way to go in the season, but we can see the front from here. We’ve still got a couple more to gain some more points to set ourselves up better.”
Chase Briscoe finished second, Logano’s Team Penske teammates Austin Cindric was third, Briscoe’s Joe Gibbs Racing teammate Denny Hamlin was fourth, and Chase Elliott rounded out the top-five.
Briscoe led a race-high 171 laps of the 400-lap race, and Logano led 95 laps. Briscoe took the lead from Logano on lap 243. But Briscoe gave up that lead during a cycle of green-flag stops to pit on lap 280. He was back up front for a restart following a lap-284 caution for Carson Hocevar.
Briscoe also gave up leads for green-flag stops on laps 324 and 362. Logano followed Briscoe to pit road on lap 362 and took the lead by barely beating him out of the pits.
“My team did a great job,” Logano said. “The pressure was on everybody to make the right calls, to execute the runs, to have a good pit stop, there. We were door-to-door pretty much onto pit road. That tested everything we had. I thought we were gonna be in good shape, because the run before that we were a lot faster than the 19 (Briscoe) right at the end, but we weren’t able to be the same amount of good as we wanted to be. This is the first time I’ve had all of my kids here for a win, so this is a real special one for our family. I’m looking forward to enjoying it.”
Logano cycled to the lead on lap 376 and ran up front the remaining distance.
Pole sitter Ryan Blaney won the opening stage at lap 70. Fellow front row starter Briscoe was second at stage-end. All three Team Penske cars were in the top-five at the end of stage one with Blaney’s teammates Logano and Cindric in third and fourth, respectively. Penske-affiliated Josh Berry was fifth.
Blaney and Briscoe raced side-by-side and traded the lead back-and-forth in the opening laps. Blaney finally took command of the lead on lap nine.
Blaney pitted from the lead during a cycle of green-flag stops on lap 33 but cycled back to the lead when the round of stops completed.
Team Penske swept the stages with Logano winning the160-lap second stage at lap 230. Hamlin and Briscoe were second and third at stage-end. Hamlin took second from Briscoe on lap 225.
Logano took the lead from Briscoe on lap 172. Logano gave up the lead to pit under green on lap 170 but cycled back to the top spot when the round of stops completed.
Briscoe took the lead from Blaney early in stage two on a lap-80 restart. Blaney retook the lead, though on lap 108. Briscoe retook the lead when he was the first off pit road during a lap-125 caution for Zane Smith.
All four Hendrick Motorsports teammates were in the top-10 at the checkered flag. Elliott’s teammate Kyle Larson finished sixth, William Byron ninth and Alex Bowman 10th. Other top-10 finishers included Christopher Bell in seventh and Berry eighth.
