The Home Depot Team Notes of Interest
· Joey Logano will be making his second start at Kansas Speedway in the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series on Sunday, but first in The Home Depot Toyota. Logano drove the No. 96 car last year at the 1.5-mile track.
· Logano slipped one spot in the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series standings after his 42nd-place finish last weekend at Dover International Speedway. Logano was running in the top 25 before the incident on lap 32. He sits just 33 points out of 19th heading into this weekend’s 400-mile race.
· The Home Depot Team is taking chassis #247 to the track this weekend for the Price Chopper 400. This will be the third time on the track for this chassis; Logano previously ran this car at Indianapolis (12th-place finish) and Michigan (seventh-place finish).
· Logano continues to hold a significant lead over Scott Speed in the Raybestos Rookie standings. He is 24 points (217-193) ahead of Speed with nine races remaining in the 2009 season. Last year’s top rookie finished 29th at Kansas Speedway.
Logano on Kansas:
“I’m ready to get back to the track and put last week behind us. We have a lot going on in Kansas this weekend with The Home Depot store appearance on Thursday and then the special paint scheme on the Nationwide car on Saturday. Home Depot and GameStop teamed up to do the Our House: Party! paint scheme and the car looks really cool. Kansas is one of the tracks that I raced the Cup car at last year so I have that to lean back on when we unload on Friday. We lost a position in the point standings last week so it’s really important for us to get a good race in this weekend.”
Logano on last week’s wreck:
“That was definitely the wildest ride I had ever been on. I am fine though and it says a lot about how safe these cars are. Just looking forward to getting back on the track.”
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