From time to time Joey Logano writes an entry for his Journal at the Home Depot Racing website, here is the latest entry that was written Tuesday, June 30, 2009.

Can you believe I won at New Hampshire? I’m not sure it has all hit me yet, well except for the seven hours of media I did yesterday. I don’t think it could have happened in a better place. I grew up not too far from there, so I saw my first Cup race at New Hampshire. Then I had my first Cup start last fall and now my first win. Just all seems to make sense. It was also my 20th Cup start, that’s weird isn’t it? This reminds me, I have to thank all the fans and especially The Home Depot Associates that have supported me. The good news is next year you don’t have to vote me into the All Star race, we will be in it!

Ok, back to the race. I had no idea I was even leading until my spotter Mark told me when the caution came out. Then I never thought the rain would go my way. I figured it would stop and we would have to pit. Zippy and I never talked about it during the red flag, we were talking about the race up to that point and the changes we would need to make when it went green again. Jeff Gordon came up to my window and said congratulations. I was like “please don’t jinx me!” David Ruetimann came over and told me he found it best to stay at the car. Heck if it worked for him I wasn’t moving! Kyle and Tony came over too, it was cool to get that support from my peers. The neatest thing was that the fans cheered when the race was called. They were all standing at the fence line clapping and hollering. Usually they are ticked when the race gets called due to rain.

This win also takes off some pressure. What I didn’t want to tell anyone is I really wanted to break that age record. Plus, Zippy and The Home Depot Team have won at least one race over the last 10 years, I was terrified I was going to break that streak. Seeing them in victory lane, plus my family was awesome. It’s not the way I thought I would get my first Cup win, but I will certainly take it. Like Zippy and I both said, “sometimes it’s better to be lucky than good.” By the time we got done with all the media and I got to the plane I had 40 text messages and 15 voice mails. Again, thank you everyone that reads this and has supported me, it means a lot. Hopefully you will have plenty more to cheer for soon.

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It’s official, Joey Logano is now the youngest NASCAR Sprint cup winner, here is the full break down of the weekend, from the Lenox Industrial Tools 301 race at the New Hampshire Motor Speedway.

Practice Results

Qualifying Results

Qualifying was rained out.

Race Results

Interview After Win

Lindsay Czarniak: A year ago, Joey Logano made his cup debut here in preparation for his first full time series, in the sprint cup series, and now ironically this is where you get your first win. Tell me how baldly your heart was beating waiting to see if the race would end this way?

Joey Logano: I never though I’d been the one, it kind of bit us in Charlotte, we had the same opportunity to do this and we didn’t do it, this is the opportunity we had, we didn’t have nothing to lose and Zippy made a great call, I gotta thank the Home Depot, I gotta thank Sprint, all the fans, Coca Cola, who else we got, Toyota, all those guys, this is a dream come true, and this is the best race track we could have at it.

Lindsay Czarniak: We’re moving out of the way to let Joey’s car in, and Joey I also want to ask you, you told me three days ago, that this place still kinda of freaked you out, but this is your home town track, how much more special does this make this?

Joey Logano: It make’s it that more special believe me, we struggled a little bit in practice, I felt like I was starting to figure it out, last run of the race really, we picked up about 4 tenths of a second, I was like whoa now is where we need to be, and you know luckily, we saved enough fuel, we made a pit stop there at the end before the last green flag run, so we had a little bit more fuel than every body else, and that’s what it took.

Lindsay Czarniak Go celebrate with your teammates, Joey Logano becomes the youngest driver to get this win, 19 years old.

Joey Logano Lenox Industrial Tools 301 Photos

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Practice Results

Interview During Practice

Bob Dillner: One guy that is looking for a good run here this weekend, Joey Logano 12th quick so far, 12 laps in the books, and the rains come, you were talking with Kyle Busch, and it was like a big conference over there what were you guys talking about?

Joey Logano: I was talking about our race cars, typical – typical deal there, just to see what we could do to make our cars go a little faster, we got rookie set of tires, since I am a rookie here, so we actually didn’t get to put em on, we put em on actually and went out there and made two corners and it started raining so…. Besides that, I think we have a good GameStop Toyota, I think it was good in the first practice, this practice I didn’t think it was as good, I know we made a little bit of changes there, It’s tough when you go from you know the cup side to the nationwide side and then say, Hey what was different with your nationwide car? Shoot, I just made 100 laps over there, and everything gets erased out of your mind so, you know it’s kinda of tough to back to back things, after you been in another car for an hour and a half, but I still think this car is pretty good you know, I am sure we are not getting back out.

Bob Dillner: I can see the intensity in your eyes though when you were talking to Kyle and so forth, because this weekend very important to you, you’re from Connecticut, New Englander, and this is home for you how important is a good run here?

Joey Logano: It would be awesome, you know on either side, I mean Zippy’s from up here too, you know this is his joint too so you know that be awesome to run here, you know alot of family and friends around here, so it be cool, it be cool to get a win on either side.

Qualifying Results

Comment Before Qualifying Run

Lindsay Czarniak: I’m with Joey Logano, just got done doing his Sprint Cup Series practice, so you are getting ready to go out here in the nationwide car, I know you’re from this area, you have so much time at this track too in the other series, what do you expect out there today?

Joey Logano: Well see, for qualifying here, not 100% sure, we never made a mock run in the nationwide car here so, I don’t think many people did so alot of people are guessing, our teammate qualified good, so well see what he did and see what we can do, I mean cup cars, Home Depot Toyota over there is decent, I was telling you, were not fast on the speed chart but one tenth puts you right up there in the thick of things, so the feel is just really close, it’s pretty much the same thing over here on the nationwide side so, it’s exciting but it’s one little mistake will put you back there so it makes it tight but, that’s short track racing here NASCAR stuff.

Lindsay Czarniak: Does it give you more confidence having the hometown connection?

Joey Logano: Yeah it’s cool, kinda of like a hometown advantage kinda of thing, I mean you got alot of fans around here, alot of family and friends so that’s pretty cool, I mean I don’t really have alot of laps around here, but you know, I mean that’s not really like that anywhere but at least you’ve got that home court advantage.

Post Qualifying Comments

Bob Dillner: Well it’s a hectic schedule, for Joey Logano here at the Magic Mile today, three straight poles for him now in Nationwide competition, how are you looking forward to today’s race?

Joey Logano: Well see, the GameStop Toyota is obviously really good, I thought I screwed up, and we still had a really good lap so, that was pretty exciting, I think in race trim we were pretty good in first practice, second practice not real sure about it yet so, well see, we’ve got a really good starting spot obviously and just keep it up front and be there at the end like normal.

Race Results

Pre-Race Comments

Dave Burns: At this point, having two Camping World East Series wins under your belt right here at this race track, how important is that as you approach today’s race?

Joey Logano: I think it helps a little bit, you know those cars are so different, the biggest thing is the different tires, bias-ply tires versus the radial tires here is probably the biggest difference, but yeah it definitely helps I mean just have some laps around here, it’s cool you kinda of got the home court advantage here, you got you know family and friends around here so that’s pretty neat, it’d be cool to get a win here, you know alot of the guys on this team are up from New England too well see what we can do.

Dave Burns: Well and this is a much bigger race, than those were, alot bigger competition here, so how big would it be if a New England boy takes home the trophy today?

Joey Logano: It can happen, I tell ya I’ve got a great GameStop Toyota so, it’d be awesome, it’d be really cool, it’d be a ton of fun to get all these guys a win here.

Post Race Comments

Shannon Spake: Down here with second place finisher Joey Logano, 108 laps led today, what happened at the end of the run, between you and the 18, and with your car in particular?

Joey Logano: He beat me pretty much, they were faster at the end at the right point, you know, I think every restart I was just too loose, and that’s when I gave up a spot, and then I was able to get it on the longer run, did it again, except Kyle Was just better threw out the whole run, and we could hang there with him, but if we had the clean air, might of had something for him, but they were better than us, that’s why they got the trophy. I got my buddy Matt over here, I was trying to get him the win for him, but man I tried hard but, I mean it’s tough, I guess I know how Kyle feels lately leading all the laps and then not winning, it’s still a good run for the GameStop team here, 20 team is still going for the owner’s championship, so it still keeps them up there.

Shannon Spake: Now let’s look forward to tomorrow, now I know, that not alot translates, nothing translates, from this car to the cup car, but leading 108 laps, as far as confidence how much of that will translate to tomorrow?

Joey Logano: Oh, alot of that will, over here it’s like my big confidence booster, I feel like I am at home over here, I know what I want, I know what to feel, I know what I need to do to win over here, so that’s a big confidence booster, when you go back and forth between Sprint Cup and the Nationwide.

Joey Logano Camping World RV Sales 200 Photos

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Double Duty again for Joey Logano, this weekend at the New Hampshire Motor Speedway, Joey will be running the number 20 GameStop/Singularity Toyota in the Nationwide Series, as well as the number 20 Home Depot Toyota in the Sprint Cup Series.

It will be Joey Logano’s first time in a nationwide car at the New Hampshire Motor Speedway, while on the Sprint Cup series, it will be his second visit to the New Hampshire Motor Speedway. Joey Logano, made his debut in the Sprint Cup series at the New Hampshire Motor Speedway in the number 96 car last year, he started 40th and finished 32nd.

Nationwide Series

Practice Results

Interview During Practice

Bob Dillner: One guy that is looking for a good run here this weekend, Joey Logano 12th quick so far, 12 laps in the books, and the rains come, you were talking with Kyle Busch, and it was like a big conference over there what were you guys talking about?

Joey Logano: I was talking about our race cars, typical – typical deal there, just to see what we could do to make our cars go a little faster, we got rookie set of tires, since I am a rookie here, so we actually didn’t get to put em on, we put em on actually and went out there and made two corners and it started raining so…. Besides that, I think we have a good GameStop Toyota, I think it was good in the first practice, this practice I didn’t think it was as good, I know we made a little bit of changes there, It’s tough when you go from you know the cup side to the nationwide side and then say, Hey what was different with your nationwide car? Shoot, I just made 100 laps over there, and everything gets erased out of your mind so, you know it’s kinda of tough to back to back things, after you been in another car for an hour and a half, but I still think this car is pretty good you know, I am sure we are not getting back out.

Bob Dillner: I can see the intensity in your eyes though when you were talking to Kyle and so forth, because this weekend very important to you, you’re from Connecticut, New Englander, and this is home for you how important is a good run here?

Joey Logano: It would be awesome, you know on either side, I mean Zippy’s from up here too, you know this is his joint too so you know that be awesome to run here, you know alot of family and friends around here, so it be cool, it be cool to get a win on either side.

Saturday Events
Qualifying for the Camping World RV Sales 200 will start airing at 10 am Eastern time on Speed TV. And you can catch the Camping World RV Sales 200 race on ABC starting at 2:30 pm eastern time.

Sprint Cup Series

Practice Results

Qualifying Results
The qualifying session was rained and Joey will start in the 24th position.

Saturday Events

Only two more practice sessions remain, the 2nd practice session will be run on 9 am eastern time, while the final practice session will be on 11:30 am eastern time, both will be aired on SPEED TV.

Sunday Events

The Lenox Industrial Tools 301 race will air on TNT starting at 1:30 pm eastern time this Sunday, June 28, 2009.

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Brandy, otherwise known as “Kurt/Kyle/Ryan Fan” in our Joey Logano Forum, is this Month’s Fan of the Month. Brandy answered some questions for us.

So tell us a little bit about yourself. What are your dislikes, likes, etc?

Brandy: i’m a stay-at-home mom of an 11 yr old boy(will be 12 in Sept)he’s gonna be in the 7th grade next yr and i am not ready for him to grow up yet lol. i’ve been married since July ‘02. we live in a tiny town that only has 1 stop light lol and all the kids(PreK-12th)all go to the same school, which only averages around 700 kids a yr. i’m an extremely passionate Nascar fan and i will defend all my drivers to anyone who challenges me lol, but i can also admit when one of them is being a dumb a** or does something totally uncalled for lol. we vacation in North Carolina every summer for 9 days and someday want to move down there. our son wants to go to college down there and attend Nascar Tech when he graduates from high school. we go to Indy and MIS(both)every yr and have been since ‘06.

How long have you been a NASCAR fan?

Brandy: i’ve been a nascar fan since ‘98, at that time i was a part time watcher..in 2000 i got fully into it and started watching all the time. Dale Sr was my one and only driver at the time, when he passed away i knew i needed to pick a new driver, i was impressed by a rookie(Kurt Busch)so i picked him and have added to my list over the years lol

How did you become a fan of Joey Logano?

Brandy: i became a fan when JGR introduced him when they brought him up to the NW Series last year

Why do you like Joey Logano?

Brandy: Cause he’s a great driver and person

How did you become a fan of Joey Logano? i became a fan when JGR introduced him when they brought him up to the NW Series last year

How do you think Joey Logano will do this year and beyond?

Brandy: he’s gonna do great

While he is in the number 20 Home Depot Toyota, What race track do you think Joey will mark his first win at?

Brandy: not sure, but it will be soon

If you’d like to be a fan of the month, all you have to do is be a part of our Joey Logano Forum, a new fan of the month is chosen every month.

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