Joey Logano entered Sunday’s Window World 450 at North Wilkesboro Speedway having not won a NASCAR Cup Series points race in 441 days. North Wilkesboro Speedway hadn’t hosted a Cup points race in 10,888 days — and both waits came to a spectacular end in front of a sold-out crowd, as Logano led a race-high 323 laps and snapped a 45-race winless streak.

North Wilkesboro’s long-awaited Cup Series points race delivered on the action, with cars running three different lanes around the iconic, five-eighths-mile oval. Whether it was the top, middle or bottom groove, though, Logano had all comers covered in the closing laps — and the win couldn’t have come at a better time, with Logano having started the race outside the Chase cutoff.

Denny Hamlin, meanwhile, entered as the series points leader — but he had to settle for second, .859 seconds behind Logano, despite multiple late-race bids to pressure the winner into a mistake. Chase Briscoe, Ty Gibbs and Shane van Gisbergen completed the top five.

Logano’s No. 22 Team Penske Ford started 11th and was not an immediate threat. Gibbs led the first 42 circuits before Hamlin briefly took the point. Gibbs captured the Stage 1 victory, but the pieces were already in place for Logano to make his move: an early decision to pit for four tires granted Logano a shot at the advantage he needed to pass cars who didn’t take four tires, which moved Logano up to third after Stage 1.

Logano took the lead for the first time on Lap 86. No other driver led more than 19 laps the rest of the way, with van Gisbergen claiming those from Laps 94-112.

Bubba Wallace finished sixth with Brad Keselowski seventh and Todd Gilliland eighth. Daniel Suarez and Ryan Preece rounded out the top 10.

Logano’s victory was his second at North Wilkesboro Speedway and his first since the 2024 NASCAR All-Star Race at NWS.

The race was slowed by five cautions for 43 laps and was completed in two hours, 50 minutes and 54 seconds.

{Information provided by Speedway Motorsports}