NAPA Auto Parts 200 Practice Results

NAPA Auto Parts 200 Qualifying Results

Post-Qualifying Run Comments

Mike Massaro: You know Joey was looking at our monitors, he saw that critter and he joked, ‘the reason they are out is because I scared em out of his home!’ What happened as you got off the race track?

Joey Logano: Well my first lap I looked like a dart without feathers out there, I was… I looked terrible looked like a first time driver out there. I was like… man I need to calm down and just get a good lap and that was my second lap, I thought my 2nd lap was gonna be good until I hit the grass that I threw out on the racetrack. So, then the third time the track was clean and I had a good lap. Yeah, I think it will be up there, obviously it will be up there but I don’t think it’s going to be the pole, you know I think it’s definitely gonna be faster than that. But you know It will hang in there 3rd, 4th probably you know, well see what happens. Feel bad for the groundhogs man, I didn’t mean to run them out of their home.

NAPA Auto Parts 200 Race Results

Joey Logano Pre-Race Comments

Mike Massaro: And it certainly appears there’s alot for drivers to remember when it comes to this race track. And Joey, for a guy like you, with limited road course experience what’s it like coming a place like this?

Joey Logano: It’s pretty cool you know I think the city itself is awesome and the race track is pretty cool, it’s a lot different than most race tracks we go to, road courses we go to. You know Watkins Glen is definitely way different you know you got alot more flowing turns alot more speed. This place seems like it’s a straightaway, alot of brakes a right and a left and a long straightaway so it seems like here you know you are focused more on how your car brakes and launches off the corner more than turning threw the center it seems like. So, those are kind of the big things we focused on when we came here.

Mike Massaro: Despite your limited experience you contended for the win at Watkins Glen finishing 2nd, in terms of confidence what did that do for you?

Joey Logano: Alot actually, you know it surprised me, I got here and was kind of lost again you know in the first few laps I went out there I felt like we got the wrong gear in the car, this and that and you know once I got a feel for it again you know it’s been two years since I’ve been here then all of the sudden it starts coming to you, and we found the speed back again, I surprised myself at Watkins Glen, I surprised myself again where we qualified I felt like we got a really good GameStop Toyota today, and we got a good shot at winning this thing. You know, strategy is going to be the biggest thing that’s gonna happen today, the way the fuel mileage turns out, I know we are all real close on making it on two stops or not. So, hopefully cautions fall right and we do everything right that we can have a really good race here at the end.

Joey Logano NAPA Auto Parts 200 Photos

When is the next Nationwide race for Joey Logano?

The next race will be at the Atlanta Motor Speedway on September 4, 2010 for the Great Clips 300.

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All of the practice sessions along with the qualifying session have now been completed at the Circuit Gilles Villeneuve in preparation for Sunday’s NAPA Auto Parts 200. Logano posted the third fastest lap in qualifying and will start from the second row tomorrow behind Marcos Ambrose and Jacques Villeneuve. Results from today’s sessions are posted below.

NAPA Auto Parts 200 Practice Results

NAPA Auto Parts 200 Qualifying Results

Post-Qualifying Run Comments

Mike Massaro: You know Joey was looking at our monitors, he saw that critter and he joked, ‘the reason they are out is because I scared em out of his home!’ What happened as you got off the race track?

Joey Logano: Well my first lap I looked like a dart without feathers out there, I was… I looked terrible looked like a first time driver out there. I was like… man I need to calm down and just get a good lap and that was my second lap, I thought my 2nd lap was gonna be good until I hit the grass that I threw out on the racetrack. So, then the third time the track was clean and I had a good lap. Yeah, I think it will be up there, obviously it will be up there but I don’t think it’s going to be the pole, you know I think it’s definitely gonna be faster than that. But you know It will hang in there 3rd, 4th probably you know, well see what happens. Feel bad for the groundhogs man, I didn’t mean to run them out of their home.

Sunday, August 29, 2010 Session

• NAPA Auto Parts 200 presented by Dodge on ESPN2 at 2 pm

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Joey Logano and the No. 20 GameStop Toyota will make their return to Montreal’s Circuit Gilles Villeneuve for this weekend’s NASCAR Nationwide Series’ Napa Auto Parts 200 after skipping the event in 2009 to focus on Logano’s rookie season in the Sprint Cup Series. Back in 2008, when Logano last visited the 2.709-mile road course, he had a stellar run going in what was then his first-career Nationwide Series road course start. Logano was running in the fourth position under caution and during a heavy rainfall when poor visibility out of his front windshield resulted in Logano hitting a stalled car on the track. The race was red flagged and called official just one lap later, but the wreck dropped Logano from fourth to 17th in the final rundown.

While most of the drivers in the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series will spend their final off-weekend of 2010 relaxing, Logano will be doing what he loves the most, going for another win. Logano has raced in two NASCAR Nationwide Series “stand alone” events in 2010, coming at Nashville Superspeedway and Kentucky Speedway. Logano won the pole at Nashville before ultimately finishing eighth. In Kentucky, Logano won the pole and the race, the first driver to ever win three-straight poles and races at the same track.

Prior to this season, Joey Logano’s best-career finish in a road course event had been a seventh. However, Logano has continued to work on his road course prowess and it showed just a couple of weeks ago, when Logano qualified the No. 20 GameStop Toyota second at Watkins Glen International and raced in the top five all afternoon long, eventually coming home in the runner-up position to road course veteran Marcos Ambrose. In fact, Ambrose later said Logano was the only car all afternoon long that was able to push him during the event.

Stat of the Week: “79%“. Logano’s 10th place finish at Bristol Motor Speedway last weekend was the 45th top 10 finish of his NASCAR Nationwide Series career. That has come in just 57 career starts, giving Logano a 79 percent rate of top 10 finishes behind the wheel of the No. 20 Joe Gibbs Racing machine over the course of his Nationwide Series career.

Could it be the GameStop Car?: The Joe Gibbs Racing team will once again bring chassis #2077 to Montreal. That chassis has been Logano’s primary road course car since joining the NASCAR Nationwide Series, including Logano’s second-place finish at Watkins Glen International earlier this month. Chassis #2055 will serve as the team’s backup.

Featured on the No. 20: GameStop store #5802, located in Oak Ridge, Tennessee, will be the featured store on the lower rear quarter panel at Montreal.

Logano’s Season-To-Date NASCAR Nationwide Series Stats:

Logano’s Career NASCAR Nationwide Series Stats:

Logano’s Career NASCAR Nationwide Series Stats at Circuit Gilles Villeneuve

Previous results at Circuit Gilles Villeneuve

Joey Logano Quotes:

“I’m actually excited to go to Montreal because I think we can really build on our finish at Watkins Glen a few weeks ago. I’ve never considered myself much of a road course racer, but when you go out there and you run competitive and show that, with a little added improvement you can contend for the win, it gives you a lot more confidence. But, I’m also going into the weekend knowing that Montreal is a much more technical course then Watkins Glen. Watkins Glen is like the speedway of road courses. Montreal is more like Infineon where as it’s much more technical. So I’m sure it will be a challenge, but I also feel like I’m a lot better now and I have a lot more confidence, which means a lot in this sport and on the road courses.

“I’m also ready to come back and redeem myself after what happened here back in 2008. We had a good car that day. I don’t think we were going to win the race, but we were going to finish in the top five and maybe even the top three. And that would have been like a win for me being that it was my first road course race and that we spent most of the race running in the raining. But then the rain got worse and we wound up running into a stopped car on the track that didn’t have its brake lights working. I couldn’t even see out of the windshield. So we were just stopped out there with a lot of damage and then they called the race the very next lap. So I feel like this place owes me something.

“It’s always cool to go somewhere totally different too. I mean, doing what we do, we get to see a lot of the country, from New England to Southern California. But there is something very different about coming to Montreal and it’s cool to get to see. I mean, it’s a whole different country and a whole different lifestyle. So many people speak French, people are really nice and the sites are just different. Everything is a little out of the ordinary of what we see on any other given weekend, and that is cool to get to be around every now and then.”

Kevin Kidd Quotes

“This is going to be an interesting weekend and I’m really looking forward to seeing what we have when we unload. Joey has a lot more confidence since he race so well at Watkins Glen. Plus, with the disappointment that he had at Bristol last week where he feels like a race was pretty much taken from him by another competitor, I think he’s really hungry and he’s going to drive that much harder. So it could be a very interesting weekend for the No. 20 GameStop team.”

“We’ve made some big improvements on our road course program, and we learned a lot with Joey. But every track is different, so there is only so much you can take to the next race. Every weekend is a different animal and you can’t get too stuck up on trying too much from the weekends before. It just gives you a good baseline to start at and then you go tweak from there. That is what we are going to do in Montréal. We just want to give Joey the best car we can and let him do the rest, which we all know he’s capable of.”

Saturday, August 28, 2010 Sessions

• NAPA Auto Parts 200 presented by Dodge practice no tv at 9 am
• NAPA Auto Parts 200 presented by Dodge final practice on ESPN2 at 11:30 am
• NAPA Auto Parts 200 presented by Dodge qualifying on ESPN2 at 5 pm

Sunday, August 29, 2010 Session

• NAPA Auto Parts 200 presented by Dodge on ESPN2 at 2 pm

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Practice Results

Qualifying Results

Race Results

Pre-Race Comments

Joey Logano Food City 250 Photos

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The second of four races with the “new” Nationwide car is now complete. Joey Logano comes home in the 6th position in the Carfax 250 after starting in 9th. With Logano’s 6th place finish, Logano now has an average finish of 4.0 with the New Nationwide car. Joey’s 6th place finish is also his best finish at Michigan International Speedway in the Nationwide Series.

Results from each Carfax 250 session is posted below.

Carfax 250 Practice Results

Carfax 250 Qualifying Results

Pre-Qualifying Comments

Hermie Sadler: I’ve got Joey Logano with the Home Depot uniform on, and were waiting for a GameStop Toyota to get here, where is it?

Joey Logano: That’s a great question, I have no idea where it’s at, I came out, I’m suppose to be out a long time ago I think so, I don’t know what the rule is or what I am suppose to do but, I am just sitting here patiently waiting for my car, and when it gets here well go out and see what we’ve got. Our GameStop Toyota we’ve been on both sides of the fence, were really struggling trying to get our front spring package where we need it to be, and we’ve been on both sides trying to get it. So, it’s really gonna be kinda of a crap shoot, were trying something we haven’t tried in practice so far, so it could be good or it could be bad, well figure that out later.

Hermie Sadler: Well they tell me it’s on the way, they can see it on the camera but, how does this car compare now to your Sprint Cup series car, now that they are little bit closer you know, aero wise.

Joey Logano: They are still way way different, I think just because you don’t have the motor basically, I mean we are going slower down the straightaway than the old Nationwide car did, and when we get to turn, we got good speed threw the turn but were just so slow down the straightaways that it makes it so different, that we are pretty much wide open almost all the way around here. So, that’s the biggest difference you know line wise your running something similar here but, you know at least the aero part is a little bit closer, you got alot of side force so you can kind of play with that a little bit.

Carfax 250 Race Results

Pre-Race Comments

Mike Massaro: And he had a pretty good debut in that new Nationwide car, 2nd at Daytona but, in terms of feel how does this car compare today to the one you had in July at Daytona?

Joey Logano: Well I mean it’s definitely two different tracks obviously but, you know I feel like JGR right now with the new Nationwide car, were a little bit off with the front springs trying to get it just right where we need to get it. So, well working on it, I know we got a whole new package we haven’t tried to practice, I think it’s a little bit better just going off qualifying lap, it seemed like we qualified a little bit better than I thought. So we got our work cut out for us in the GameStop Toyota, but you know these guys, all the guys at Joe Gibbs Racing are really smart and hard workers, and I know they’ll figure it out. So, we got the whole race today to get it and hopefully we got it right by the end.

Mike Massaro: And the race will be conducted under overcast skies, how do you think that will impact the racing?

Joey Logano: I think we got a chance for rain too, so you know this place definitely seems like when the suns comes out loses a ton of grip, lap times drop off alot and you know it seems like it frees up alot. So, you know either way I am not sure what we are going to have, weather it’s sunny or overcast like it is. So, its just going to be interesting the first two laps, I think it’s going to be a fun race though I think you know as a big of a whole as these things punch in the air the draft just noticed in practice how big the draft is. When you get two cars side by side that 3rd car is going to be really haulin the mail, so that’s going to be interesting.

Joey Logano Carfax 250 Photos

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