Tell us a little bit about yourself.

My name is Chris im 29 I live in North Carolina I enjoy racing,country music,movies, and hanging out with friends

What is your favorite food and drink?

Steak and Cherry Lemon Sundrop

How did you get into NASCAR?

My uncle got me involved when i was about 8 years old took me to charlotte and i was hooked

How did you become a fan of Joey Logano?

Met Joey when he was running Hooters Pro Cup seemed like a very nice guy and has always worked hard to get where he is today

What’s your favorite race track?

Charlotte Motor Speedway

Have you met Joey Logano, and how did it go?

I’ve met Joey Twice back when he was running Hooters Pro Cup and this past may at a local Home Depot very nice young man both times.

Do you have any other favorite drivers besides Joey?

i like Underdogs maybe the drivers that don’t have a lot but do a lot with what they have.

Thanks for the interview Chris!

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.

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

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

Qualifying Results

Race Results

Joey Logano Irwin Tools Night Race Photos

Qualifying Results

Race Results

Pre-Race Comments

Joey Logano Food City 250 Photos

NASCAR Sprint Cup Series

In three starts at the Bristol Motor Speedway Joey Logano has an average start of 10.67, an average finish of 33, and his first NASCAR Sprint Cup pole.

Friday, August 20, 2010 Sessions

• Irwin Tools Night Race practice on SPEED at Noon
• Irwin Tools Night Race final practice on SPEED at 2:30 pm
• Irwin Tools Night Race qualifying on ESPN at 5:30 pm

Saturday, August 21, 2010 Session

• Irwin Tools Night Race on ABC at 7 pm

Previous results at Bristol Motor Speedway

NASCAR Nationwide Series

Joey Logano will drive the No. 20 GameStop Toyota this weekend with thoughts of redeeming himself at Bristol Motor Speedway. Back in March, in the NASCAR Nationwide Series’ first stop at the half-mile, Logano qualified second and was running fifth on the last lap when he got spun by another competitor and eventually finished 14th. The following day, Logano picked up his first-career Sprint Cup Series pole but finished 27th after cutting down a tire under green. So needless to say, Logano’s weekend in Bristol will be about redemption.

While Bristol Motor Speedway is known for its lightening quick action on the track, the action off the track is also equally as fast and hectic. The NASCAR Nationwide Series will run a full one-day program on Friday at Bristol, with practice, qualifying and race all coming Friday morning, afternoon and evening. In addition, Logano will spend plenty of time running back and forth between the Nationwide and Sprint Cup Series garages, also competing in two practice sessions and qualifying for the Sprint Cup on Friday. If he takes advantage of all of his practice time and finishes all 250 laps of the Nationwide Series event, Logano could spend as much as eight hours and 15 minutes behind the wheel of his racecars on Friday.

Kevin Kidd, Crew Chief of the No. 20 GameStop Toyota, considers Motor Mile Speedway and South Boston Speedway in Virginia his “home tracks,” but Bristol Motor Speedway will be the closest on the NASCAR Nationwide Series he gets to home. Bristol, Tennessee and Kidd’s hometown of Tazewell, Virginia are separated by just 70 miles. Kidd has been involved with racing since his early teens. Kidd’s father is still a part-time car owner in and around the short tracks of Virginia, while his brother still races on a semi-regular basis as well.

Stat of the Week: 4.9. Logano’s average finish in the 2010 NASCAR Nationwide Series season has been 4.9. That average is the fifth best of any driver this year and the best among driver who have competed in at least three events or more. Comparative, points leader Brad Keselowski has an average finish of 5.1, while Logano’s Joe Gibbs Racing teammate Kyle Busch has an average finish of 5.5 in 2010.

Previous results at Bristol Motor Speedway

Friday, August 20, 2010 Sessions

• Food City 250 final practice on SPEED (TV at 10:30 am)
• Food City 250 qualifying on SPEED at 4 pm
• Food City 250 on ESPN at 7 pm

Joey Logano Quotes:

“Even though the stats don’t show much, I love Bristol. I mean, there aren’t many guys out there that don’t love that place. Almost all of us grew up racing on the short tracks around the country, so when we go back to Bristol, it just feels like you are going back to what you did all of your racing career to get to this point. And short track racing keeps you on your toes behind the wheel. Sometimes on bigger mile-and-a-half tracks you kind find yourself taking a break down the straights and such. But at Bristol, you have to always stay on top of your game. Things happen so fast there and the closing rate is so quick, you just can’t take a break anytime except during the cautions.”

“I’m pumped too because we’ve been good at Bristol the last few times we’ve been there. We were good in both the Nationwide and Sprint Cup car there back in the spring. We really should have had a top-five finish, but we got into an incident with Kevin Harvick racing for fifth-place late in the event. That was really frustrating and still makes me mad, which is good, because it just gives me added fuel to go out there and run even better then the fifth-place we could have had. I really think with the added experience me and (Kevin) Kidd have now, we should be a threat to win the race for sure. Winning at Bristol would be one of the highlights of my career, I can tell you that.”

Kevin Kidd Quotes:

“I told Joey earlier this week that Bristol is all about going back out there and getting the job done that we left on the table back in March. We had a great car and Joey was running a good race, but circumstances kept us from getting the finish we deserved. I think that this time around, we’ll be even better and we’ll be able to challenge for the win. That is what we expect every time we go out there, and I know that is what Joey is looking for.”

“Ever since they changed Bristol, the racing here has been a little bit different and you have to change your strategy. Gone are the days of cautions every 15 laps or so. Now, you can get green flag runs of 30, 40 or even 50 laps, which makes the race go faster, but also can change the way you call a race. So, as a Crew Chief, you need to have all kinds of strategies worked out for any situation that can come up here. So it’s a challenging race to call, that’s for sure. But it’s a race that we all enjoy because we all grew up on the short tracks, so it hits close to home for us. That is why Bristol is still one of the crown jewels of this sport.”

Carfax 400 Practice Results

Carfax 400 Qualifying Results

Carfax 400 Race Results

Joey Logano Post-Race Quotes

How did the handle change on your race car today? “The thing that kind of messed with me was when we started in dirty air, we would get tighter and when we were in clean air, we would get looser. The track temperature was going up and down and it just kept screwing with me all day. It made it really hard to adjust on the car. If you had clean air all day and were up front then you definitely had a more consistent car and easier to work with. We finished with what we had. That was basically all we could do with it. We finished top-10 and that’s good after the last few weeks, we definitely needed a solid top-10. We need to start moving ourselves back up towards the top-12 in points. If we can’t make the Chase, we need to be as good as we can. We’ll keep pushing.”

Joey Logano Carfax 400 Photos

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

NASCAR Sprint Cup Series

The first practice session along with qualifying was run today in preparation for Sunday’s Carfax 400 at the Michigan International Speedway.

Carfax 400 Friday Practice Results

Carfax 400 Qualifying Results

Saturday, August 14, 2010 Sessions

• Carfax 400 practice on SPEED at 9 am
• Carfax 400 final practice on SPEED at Noon

Sunday, August 15, 2010 Session

• Carfax 400 on ESPN at 1 pm

NASCAR Nationwide Series

The final practice session was run today in preparation for the Carfax 200 that will be run tomorrow. Joey Logano reported after final practice that the car was very tight. Kidd and the team will make big changes to the car overnight.

Carfax 200 Friday Practice Results

Saturday, August 14, 2010 Sessions

• Carfax 250 qualifying on SPEED at 10 am
• Carfax 250 on ESPN at 1 pm

All times posted above are eastern time.