After Joey Logano’s birthday on Sunday, the Joe Gibbs Racing rookie who took control of the No. 20 Joe Gibbs Racing machine this season, has a little more than one more year to beat Kyle Busch’s record of the youngest driver to win a Cup Series race.
Busch won his first Cup race at Auto Club Speedway in Fontana, Calif., in September 2005 at 20 years and 125 days.
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To date, Logano’s career-best finish is a ninth-place finish at Talladega Superspeedway followed by a repeat finish at Darlington Raceway. Adding to his recent accomplishments, the Connecticut native was voted into last week’s All-Star Race at Lowe’s Motor Speedway and finished eighth. NASCAR.com
Logano finished ninth at Darlington in his first race at the track. With testing banned, he didn’t get to feel out the track much before he raced there. The team tried to get him into Denny Hamlin’s car during a tire test, but NASCAR wouldn’t allow that.
And still, he finished with his second Top 10 of the season.
“I led laps in the Southern 500,” Logano said. “I was stoked about that, I was all excited.”
More than his ninth-place finish in Talladega, Darlington showed what Logano could do. The race showed that the hype with which he arrived in the sport was deserved and his talent translates to the highest level of NASCAR racing. Orlando Sentinel
“Momentum is starting to kick in for sure,” said Logano, signing autographs for hundreds of fans in line at the Home Depot in Cornelius, N.C., on Friday. “You know we had a rough start and that pretty much puts you in a hole. And now I think, even a couple races before Darlington, we were starting to get better. We kept improving and the confidence level with me and the team keeps improving and it is shows in our finishes and how we run.”
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“The more competitive I get, the more I want to win. I like being competitive, I like being up here and it takes that little bit more when you’re up here to beat these guys,” he said. “They’re that good, so you can never be satisfied.”
Logano will start Sunday’s Coca-Cola 600 14th on the grid. His best qualifying effort came this season at Darlington where he started in the fifth position. NASCAR.com
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