MARTINSVILLE, Va. _ Joey Logano said he will try not to let what happened one year ago at Martinsville Speedway have an impact on how he races in Sunday's Goody's 500.
"You're never going to erase it from your mind," Logano said Friday of being wrecked by Matt Kenseth during last year's race. "I'm not going to lie to you. I'm not going to say that."
Logano had drawn Kenseth's ire after Logano knocked Kenseth out of the way to win two weeks earlier at Kansas Speedway. That was that second of a three-race sweep of the Chase's second round by Logano, and he was also leading late in the race at Martinsville when Kenseth took his revenge.
The wreck cost Logano a shot at the title.
"I will say that I don't focus on it," said Logano, who won his way into the third round of this year's chase by winning last week at Talladega (Ala.) Superspeedway. "If I focus on it, that's a distraction of what my main goal is to win, not think about what happened last year. If I can use it to motivate me, I'm going to use that to help me win. But that's going to be it."
