NASCAR Star Joey Logano talks Phoenix Raceway, Tom Cruise and much more

Um, so you were talking about your points gap.

You mentioned that.

Does that change your approach on race day knowing that stage points are up for grabs?

Yeah.

So is that gonna change your strategy during the race, knowing that you have such a big gap to make up?

Yeah.

Yeah.

I mean, we, we gotta get the stage points.

Um, you know, winning, winning pay's pretty big these days, but if you win with no stage points, it's not enough.

It's...

Yeah.

You know, so you gotta go out, there's 20 stage points to grab.

Uh, you know, I think of those days where you gotta get 70 plus points.

That means you gotta finish top three in both stages and win the race to, to accomplish that.

And you gotta do that just to beat the guys that you're racing.

'Cause you gotta know at this point in the season the cars that are still in the hunt to win the championship, they're gonna be good.

They're gonna be at their best, right? They're not gonna go out there and run 20th.

You know, i- if they run 20th it's gonna be because something went wrong in the race.

It's not gonna be because they're just lacking in speed at this point in the year.

So, um, the, the cream has rise to the top at this point, and we need to, you know, [laughs] we need to just find that little bit more to, to make sure we s- get those points and try to catch up.

So it's gonna be hard to do, right? It's quite the challenge.

But, you know, I think we got a shot.

I think we got a chance at it, you know? And, and you know, you're saying there's a shot, right? Like, it-

Yeah, there's always a chance

... yeah.