Joey Logano’s struggles to start the 2024 season have been effectively documented. The 2-time NASCAR Cup Sequence champion solely has one high 20 end this season, a ninth-place run at Las Vegas.
Logano at the moment sits twenty sixth in factors, 48 factors again of Kyle Busch for the ultimate spot within the NASCAR Cup Sequence playoffs. It has been over a yr since his final win, and he was eradicated within the first spherical of the Cup Sequence playoffs final season.
Regardless of the tough begin to Logano’s season, there may be one statistic that ought to give his followers hope that he can flip it round — for the reason that inception of NASCAR’s championship race in 2014, Logano has by no means missed the Championship 4 in a fair numbered yr.
Listed here are Logano’s factors finishes in even-numbered years since 2014:
2014: Fourth
2016: Second
2018: First
2020: Third
2022: First
Logano’s common factors end in these 5 years is an unheard of two.2. Nonetheless, in even numbered years, his efficiency noticeably drops off, and regardless of being shut a number of occasions, he has by no means made the Championship 4 in an odd-numbered yr.
2015: Sixth
2017: seventeenth (missed playoffs)
2019: Fifth
2021: Eighth
2023: twelfth
Why is that this the case for Logano? No person is aware of. It might simply be an obscure stat, nevertheless it’s been so constant that it is arduous to low cost it fully.
As arduous as it’s to image Logano within the Championship 4 this yr, historical past says there is a 100% probability that he makes it.
A turnaround for Logano is unlikely to start this weekend at Circuit of The Americas, however he is a earlier winner at Richmond, Martinsville, Texas and Talladega, all tracks that seem on the schedule within the subsequent month. He is additionally a winner at each Kansas and Darlington, the 2 tracks that kick off the month of Could for the Cup Sequence.
So have hope, Joey Logano followers — the season is likely to be off to a horrendous begin, however this one obscure statistic exhibits that there is no such thing as a doubt that Logano will probably be combating for a championship come Nov. 10.
