| 1 | BRISTOL, Tenn. |
| 2 | (AP) -- As Joey Logano circled Bristol Motor Speedway, he'd briefly glance in the mirror to watch Kevin Harvick. |
| 3 | Logano had taken the lead on a restart with 64 laps remaining, but Harvick was closing in by using a completely different line. |
| 4 | Refusing to get rattled, Logano stuck to what worked for him Saturday and won the Bristol night race for the second consecutive year. |
| 5 | ''It was kind of interesting to watch it in the mirror, I was watching him drive in and I was like, 'He's going to get me eventually,''' Logano said. |
| 6 | ''It's so interesting how we ran such different lines and be the same speed on the racetrack. |
| 7 | We both found what works for us, and I really thought we were going to be able to pull away because I thought we were really good in the long run and then we didn't pull away. |
| 8 | Logano has won on a superspeedway in the Daytona 500, on the road course at Watkins Glen and now Bristol's short track. |
| 9 | He has won twice this month as he readies for the start of the Chase for the Sprint Cup championship. |
| 10 | There are two more races before the playoffs begin. |
| 11 | ''We are hitting it at the right time, that's for sure,'' Logano said. |
| 12 | ''I feel like we are right where we need to be. |
| 13 | Logano led 176 laps, second only to Joe Gibbs Racing driver Kyle Busch, who led a race-high 192 laps. |
| 14 | ''Our team just executed,'' Logano said. |
| 15 | ''That's what we did and that's what we do every week. |
| 16 | Harvick finished second for the 10th time this season. |
| 17 | The reigning Sprint Cup champion has a career-best 17 top-five finishes this year and had his 250th career top-10 finish in 526 starts. |
| 18 | ''Obviously, you want to win races, but we're in position and feel like we can get that momentum swing at any point,'' Harvick said. |
| 19 | ''Just really excited to be able to run like this at Bristol. |
| 20 | Many believed JGR would pick up its 10th win of the season, particularly after Denny Hamlin, Busch and Carl Edwards swept the top three spots in qualifying. |
| 21 | Then Busch won Friday night's Xfinity Series race. |
| 22 | Although Busch dominated early, he had faded a bit as the laps clicked off. |
| 23 | Then he was hit with a speeding penalty on the final round of pit stops and finished eighth. |
| 24 | Edwards led 74 laps but had a tire go flat when he was out front and it cost him two laps. |
| 25 | ''Damn,'' Edwards said on his radio. |
| 26 | ''All right, we'll still get this. |
| 27 | He finished seventh. |
| 28 | Matt Kenseth, the winner for JGR in the spring race at the track, had no chance to sweep the season. |
| 29 | An engine issue 177 laps into the race ended his night. |
| 30 | He finished 42nd and said he had no warning that his engine was faulty. |
| 31 | ''They never warn you, it would be cool if they would send you a text or something,'' Kenseth said. |
| 32 | ''It broke in the middle of the straightaway - it had that hop and that noise that it makes when you know you dropped a valve. |
| 33 | That left Hamlin to carry the banner for JGR. |
| 34 | He finished a team-best third, but said he just didn't have the same speed as Logano and Harvick. |
| 35 | Asked if had expected to see JGR and Toyota celebrating once again, he noted that practicing in the day at Bristol doesn't always translate to the night race. |
| 36 | Still, he said, ''Did I expect it? |
| 37 | It was shaping up to be a strong night for Michael Waltrip Racing's two drivers, who are both adapting to this week's decision to close the organization at the end of the season. |
| 38 | Clint Bowyer has secured his release from his contract and is looking for a new job, along with teammate David Ragan, who has been filling in for Brian Vickers since Vickers was sidelined with health issues. |
| 39 | Both were running in the top-five on a restart when Jimmie Johnson pinched Ragan. |
| 40 | As Ragan dipped low to get away from Johnson, Ragan drove directly into Bowyer's path. |
| 41 | Bowyer was also hit by Brad Keselowski. |
| 42 | Ragan spun across the track and hit a retaining wall, while Bowyer was able to save his car but still suffered enough damage that he needed to go to pit road for repairs. |
| 43 | He restarted 12th, but Ragan was forced behind the wall for extensive repairs. |
| 44 | Bowyer rallied to finish fifth. |
| 45 | ''I'm sick to death about that,'' Bowyer said. |
| 46 | Still, Bowyer hung on to the final transfer spot into the 16-driver Chase field. |
| 47 | With two races remaining to set the field, he's in good shape barring a collapse or another driver bumping him by picking up their first win of the season. |
| 48 | The winless drivers who are currently in position to make the Chase are: Jamie McMurray, Ryan Newman, Paul Menard and Bowyer. |