NASCAR star Joey Logano brutally honest on Team Penske performance

NASCAR star Joey Logano has issued a damning self-assessment of his 2025 performances in the Cup Series.

Logano is a three-time Cup champion and has 37 victories under his belt in NASCAR's top division, but 2025 fell short of the standards he has set over the years at Team Penske.

The 35-year-old won just one race last campaign, which came at Texas in May, and only finished inside the top five on seven occasions. Logano wasn't the only Team Penske star to struggle, either, with the team having no drivers in the final four at Phoenix in November.

Sunday's Daytona 500 was the first official race of the new season, and a third-place finish will give the driver of the No. 22 Ford a lot of confidence for the races to come. However, when assessing his performance last year ahead of The Great American Race, he was brutally honest about the fact he and the team were not good enough.

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Joey Logano on 2025 performance

"We weren’t fast enough and that’s something we’re gonna have to continue to work on," Logano said during media day.

"We need to find speed when we need to execute races, but we need to execute races throughout the whole race, not just the end. I think if you look at us like we usually were able to come up with something by the end of the race and you finish well, that’s kind of the old-school way of doing it. You look at the #48, did it for years.

"That’s what they did, but you’ve got to score stage points, and the only way you score stage points is to just be fast. You’ve got to qualify up front. You’ve got to run up front. That’s where the stage points really come into play.

"At the end of the race, things happen, attrition or strategy, things play out different and you can manufacture something, but stages are all about speed, and that’s what we’ve got to continue to work on.”