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NASCAR Cup Series Championship
Avondale, Arizona - November 1, 2025

Austin Cindric, driver, No. 2 Discount Tire Ford Mustang Dark Horse - 4th

Ryan Blaney, driver, No. 12 Menards/Dutch Boy Ford Mustang Dark Horse - 5th

Joey Logano, driver, No. 22 Shell-Pennzoil Ford Mustang Dark Horse - 10th

THE FINALE: NASCAR Cup Series drivers hit the track at Phoenix Raceway Saturday afternoon for qualifying ahead of Sunday's season finale - the Cup Series Championship. Team Penske enters the weekend with five Cup Series victories at the one-mile desert oval and a remarkable streak of three consecutive series titles clinched at the venue. Joey Logano has made 33 career Cup Series starts at Phoenix, consistently performing among the frontrunners with top-10 finishes in more than half of those races. The Team Penske driver has earned four victories at the track (2016-2, 2020-1, 2022-2, 2024-2), along with nine top-five and 17 top-10 results. Phoenix ranks alongside Las Vegas Motor Speedway as the track where Logano has tallied the most career wins - a record punctuated by last year's season finale that secured his third Cup Series championship.

CINDRIC SAID IT: "Yesterday was definitely a difficult read with as many cautions as we had in practice, but I definitely thought we had a fast Discount Tire Ford. These single day qualifying sessions are kind of a beast of their own and go out there and run a fast lap in tricky conditions, so it's a good, solid start. Qualifying and pit selection are all very important here, so we'll take that and go try to get a great result from it."

UP NEXT: The season finale race is scheduled to go green at 3 p.m. ET on Sunday, with live television coverage on NBC and radio coverage on MRN and SiriusXM NASCAR Radio (Channel 90).