FORT WORTH, Texas — Joey Logano had dreams as a kid of racing Jeff Gordon to the checkered flag.

That was reality a year ago at Texas, when Logano made a last-lap pass of Gordon.

“When your 6 years old – I remember that part, and having all of his gear, and all the (No.) 24 stuff,” Logano said. “It’s still cool, you’re racing against your childhood hero, and last year at Texas to be able to pass him for the win like that. That was a really cool moment.”

Logano was leading and about to take the white flag when a late caution came out instead. Gordon exited pit road first after the ensuing stop, but Logano recovered during NASCAR’s version of overtime for the first of five Sprint Cup wins in a breakout year.

The Team Penske driver has carried that momentum into this season, starting with a win in the Daytona 500 and finishing in the top 10 in all six Sprint Cup races. Logano is second in points going into Saturday night’s Duck Commander 500 at Texas, after the series was off last weekend for Easter.

Gordon makes the first of his two trips to Texas in his last full-time Cup season, returning to the scene of a postrace melee last November involving Logano’s teammate, Brad Keselowski. Contact with Keselowski during extra laps ended Gordon’s shot at winning the eighth of 10 races in the Chase for the Sprint Cup – and his bid for a fifth series title.

Keselowski qualified third for the first night Cup race of the season, with Kurt Busch the pole-sitter. Logano will start sixth, and Gordon 12th.

XFINITY SERIES: Teenager Erik Jones pulled away to his first career victory, outrunning Sprint Cup stars Brad Keselowski and Dale Earnhardt Jr. at the same Texas track where he picked up his high school diploma a year ago.

Jones, 18, turned away a strong bid from Keselowski on a restart with 28 laps left and was never seriously challenged again.

A year earlier, Jones ran a Camping World Truck race at Texas Motor Speedway rather than attend his high school graduation in Michigan, and track president Eddie Gossage presented him his diploma during introductions.

Jones, who won from the pole, became the youngest winner in the truck series in 2013 at Phoenix. He won three truck races last year.

Keselowski was second and Earnhardt Jr. was third.