Logano still seemed a little stunned by the win a few hours after the race officially ended as he sat in his No. 20 Toyota on pit road, the rain pouring down.

But a win is a win.

“I’m not going to give it back,” he said, laughing. “I think every win is a big win to me. It’s the mentality I’ve got. You want to win every race no matter where you’re at.”

Stewart, the series points leader with his new Stewart-Haas Racing team, said Logano should definitely not be embarrassed or reluctant to take credit for his first win, despite the circumstances.

“I said, ’Ten years down the road nobody’s ever going to know how this win came.’ But, the thing is, they still had to earn it,” Stewart said. “They had to put themselves in position to be in this spot. They did a good job strategy wise.”

Logano, who got the first of his three Nationwide victories in his third start in that series, said the learning curve in Sprint Cup has been steep.

“It’s tough, believe me, it’s real tough,” said Logano, who made his first Cup start at New Hampshire last September, finishing 32nd. “If you think of last year in the Nationwide Series, yeah, I had some good runs. Did I run where I thought I needed to? No. I think it just took time.

“Now, over there, I think I know what it takes and over here we are working on it and, obviously, from what we did in the beginning of the season to now, we are running a lot better. If you look at my first race here last year, (it) was completely opposite of this.”

Even before Sunday’s win, though, Logano had felt the improvement, and gotten plenty of support from Zipadelli, Stewart’s crew chief for 10 years.

“It’s motivating just to keep seeing yourself getting better and working with Zippy and all of the guys and getting that communication going helps us improve a lot, too,” Logano said. “I try to go to every track with the same mindset, you know, and just go out there, do the best you can, and go for the win.”