Joey Logano is proof that youngsters still do listen to their elders.
After matching his career best finish of ninth Saturday night at Darlington Raceway—arguably the toughest track on the circuit—the 18-year-old gave partial credit to a past champion and new-found mentor, Cale Yarborough.
The 70-year-old Yarborough chauffeured Logano around the track in a two-seater stock car last month all the while giving the Joe Gibbs Racing rookie pointers for his Darlington debut.
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“Going with Cale helped a little bit,” said Logano, who became the first rookie to lead at Darlington since Kasey Kahne in 2004. “The last few laps I was thinking about what he was telling me and I actually tried it. He was trying to say back up the corners and get back to the gas before you get to the fence in Turns 3 and 4 and try to drive the car with the throttle. I started doing it at the end because my car was getting tight and it seemed to help a little bit. I guess Cale knows what he is talking about.” NASCAR.com
“Coming into this place, this was the one place I thought I was going to stink horribly. I thought I was going to be worse than we were at Texas this year. I was happy. We qualified good. We ran top-10 all day, top-five for a while.”
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“It is what it is. I’ll take a top-10. Realistically the way I look at it that’s our first top-10. Talladega doesn’t mean anything to me. It’s a top-10, yeah, but it’s Talladega. This is a hard earned top-10. No luck played into it. It’s where we ran, where we deserved to run and it great for these guys. It’s huge.” Hartford Courant
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