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CONCORD, N.C. -- Joey Logano's crew was in a rush to service the Team Penske No. 22 Ford.
Carl Edwards was in a rush to get onto pit road in his No. 19 Joe Gibbs Racing Toyota.
Separate incidents. Similar outcomes.
Both were flagged for infractions during Sunday's Coca-Cola 600 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series race at Charlotte Motor Speedway. Both were costly penalties.
Logano was running third when he hit pit road during a round of green-flag pit stops that began on Lap 252 of the 400-lap, 600-mile race. But a crewman was across pit wall and inside the pit box too quickly, and during a green-flag stop that meant another trip down pit road for the driver.
He was 21st after returning to the race, battled his way back onto the lead lap and eventually finished ninth. A week earlier he had won the series' Sprint All-Star Race, a non-points event that included a $1 million winner's purse.
"You're trying to have these really fast pit stops and you've got to push everything," Logano said of the miscue. "Green flag penalties are tough to overcome. We were down a lap (but) we raced to get our lap back, which was pretty cool. We didn't have to get a (free pass) or anything like that, we just raced up in front of the leader, so that was cool."
It was Logano's seventh top 10 of the season, but he's still searching for his first points win of the year.
"Once you get on these restarts, after about 4-5 laps … it was just hard to pass," he said. "A lot harder than in the All-Star Race."
Edwards' gaffe came a bit later, but likewise occurred during a round of green-flag stops. A pit road speeding penalty on Lap 297 brought his No. 19 Toyota back to pit road; a second speeding penalty while serving the first compounded the problem.
The defending winner of the series’ longest race, Edwards wound up 18th in the final rundown.
"I just got greedy," a sheepish Edwards said afterward on pit road. "I was doing really well getting onto pit road and I thought, 'All right, I'm going to get a little more,' and that didn't work. Then I let it snowball. I made a rookie mistake of trying to make my pass-through as fast as I could and I sped by, I think, a half a mile an hour. If I'd known I was going to speed I would have gone a little faster and gotten my money's worth."
Edwards won consecutive races earlier this year. In the three races since his last victory, he's yet to finish inside the top 10.
"I screwed it up," he said. "I think we had a solid top-four car, maybe a top-three car so it's really tough to swallow that one. It's a mistake; I better learn from it. …
"We didn't quit; I'm proud of my guys for sticking behind me. ... That's just tough."
Logano lost one position in the points standings, falling from eighth to ninth. Edwards fell a spot as well, from fourth to fifth, but with two wins is assured a slot in this year's Chase for the Sprint Cup.