Joey Logano won the WURTH 400 NASCAR Cup Series race on May 4 at Texas Motor Speedway with a vintage performance, working through the field.
Logano, the 2024 NASCAR Cup Series champion, held off a late charge from Ross Chastain and Team Penske teammate Ryan Blaney in overtime to score the 37th win of his NASCAR Cup Series career.
The tunnel under the surface of turn 4 at Texas caused trouble for several cars with a small bump in the track. That bump caused some drivers to bottom out their cars and spin, including Josh Berry, Kyle Busch and others.
Here are the winners and losers from the NASCAR Texas race.
Winners
Joey Logano
Joey Logano usually finds a way to win races he looks out of at various points. Logano, the defending NASCAR Cup Series champion, started 27th at Texas and meticulously worked his way through the field to get toward the front and kept his cool to get through the big block Michael McDowell threw at him before driving off to win the race in overtime and lock himself into the playoffs.
Team Penske
Logano’s win gives Team Penske its second win in a row, following Austin Cindric’s win at Talladega. Cindric also won the first stage of the Texas race to give the team momentum. Of course, Ryan Blaney was running toward the front for most of the final stage at Texas and had a chance to win the race at various points before finishing third.
Ross Chastain
Ross Chastain charged virtually out of nowhere to earn a second-place finish at Texas for his best of the season. This is Chastain’s second top-5 finish and sixth top 10 of the 2025 season. He’s still searching for a win to lock himself into the playoffs, but strong showings like he had in Texas will help his cause.
Losers
Michael McDowell
McDowell was running hard toward the front after a gutsy call for two tires on a pit stop with 46 laps to go. McDowell was leading laps and appeared poised to have a shot to win the race, but he tried to make a big block on Joey Logano and ended up crashing after getting loose exiting turn 2 a lap later.
Kyle Busch
Kyle Busch finds himself on this side of the list again following a 20th-place finish at Texas. He spun from third place on lap 228 when he was close to contending for a win. He was later caught in a crash with Brad Keselowski, essentially taking him out of the running as his winless streak extends to 68 races, dating back to June 4, 2023, at Gateway.
Josh Berry
Berry was leading in the second stage of the race and appeared to be pulling away when he ran into lapped traffic with Cody Ware, changing his line and hitting the small bump in turn 4, bottoming out his car and spinning down the frontstretch. Berry was dealt his fourth DNF of the season.
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