Stater Bros. 300 - February 20th, 2010 - Auto Club Speedway Race Talk

[Jean]

Weekend TV Schedule

SPEED 02|19|10 2 p.m. Stater Bros. 300 practice
SPEED 02|19|10 4:40 p.m. Stater Bros. 300 final practice
SPEED 02|20|10 12:30 p.m. Stater Bros. 300 qualifying
ESPN2 02|20|10 5 p.m. Stater Bros. 300 Race

Videos From the Weekend

[Jean]

California Race Preview
Joey Logano
No. 20 GameStop Toyota
Joe Gibbs Racing

In three previous Nationwide Series starts at Auto Club Speedway in Fontana, Calif., Joey Logano has a victory, as well as third and sixth-place finishes. His win in October 2009 was his sixth career Nationwide Series victory and came after starting from the pole. Logano and the GameStop Toyota team finished seventh at the season-opening race at Daytona.

What Joey’s Saying: Why do you think you’ve been so good at Auto Club Speedway?: “The main thing is Joe Gibbs Racing builds awesome speedway cars. That really shows up a lot at racetracks like Fontana. It’s the whole package, from the aerodynamics of the bodies to the set-up of the car. We have always had a good set-up for the GameStop car, and the more laps I’ve turned there, I’ve gotten better.”

The track is very wide. Does that put more control in the hands of the driver?: “It’s not much more on the driver than any other track we race. In the Nationwide cars, it’s always fastest to stay in the bottom lane - that’s where you want to be. But, because the track is so wide, if you car is not working there, you can move up to the second or third lane… even the fourth or fifth lane it seems! It’s cool when you can go to a variety of grooves depending on how your car is handling.”

You won the most recent Nationwide Series race here. Does that help you for this week?: “No question that if you go in as a previous winner at any track, it really helps your confidence. We had a super GameStop Toyota there (last October), and we passed a lot of cars to win. That helps the confidence of the whole team.”

What’s Joey Playing This Week?: The No. 20 GameStop Toyota will carry the colors of Nintendo’s Mario Kart for the Wii gaming system. The game is available at GameStop locations across the country or at GameStop.com.


Joey Logano Nationwide Series Statistics

Career Starts: 42
Wins: 6
Poles: 7
Top-5 Fin.: 18
Top-10 Fin: 31
Laps Led: 732

Joey Logano at Auto Club Speedway

Previous Starts: 3
Best Finish: 1st (Oct. ’09)
Best Start: 1st (Oct. ’09)
Average Start: 3.6
Average Fin.: 3.3

Chassis

Primary: JGR 2089 (chassis won at Kentucky, Chicago and Kansas in 2009)
Back up: JGR 2073

[Canadian Joey Fan]

This could be win number 1 ..Go Joey GO!!

[Jean]

Whoa guys check out the Mario Kart Wii GameStop Toyota

[Priyanka]

Oh my god. That's so cute! I am dying to see what that looks like in person :]
I tell you...he has the COOLEST paint schemes. There should be an award for that at the banquet at the end of the season. "The winner is: Joey Logano sponsored by GameStop!"


Post #1,000 :]

[rawrgoeskayla]

Wooo you go girl!!!!

And I absolutely love this car as well as the game.

[JoeyLoganoFan]

Good looking car. Like the Nintendo Schemes they awalys seem to look very cool

[liv2race20]

Love mario kart im going to show my age but i remember it on the nintindo 64 lol great paint scheme

[joeyloganofanxo20]

loving the paint scheme!!!! i luv tht game!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Jean]

(02-18-2010 03:03 PM)liv2race20 Wrote:  Love mario kart im going to show my age but i remember it on the nintindo 64 lol great paint scheme

I played it on the Super Nintendo

[rawrgoeskayla]

(02-18-2010 03:03 PM)liv2race20 Wrote:  Love mario kart im going to show my age but i remember it on the nintindo 64 lol great paint scheme

I played on nintendo 64 too!

[Jean]

This was like in 2008... but still fun to watch

[20forLogano]

He is going to win the race today.

[Jean]

(02-20-2010 09:51 AM)20forLogano Wrote:  He is going to win the race today.

Sounds good to me!

[liv2race20]

get u some of that boys great qualifying effort

[Jean]

(02-20-2010 12:39 PM)liv2race20 Wrote:  get u some of that boys great qualifying effort

Yup! Lets hope it holds up for pole position

[greenlemonade102]

Great qualifying run for Logano. I sure do get the feeling he will win today.

Oh yeah, refer to Logano and Hamlin as bread and butter for now on lol. Hamlin whore a hat that said butter, and Logano's nickname is of course sliced bread, so it's bread and butter!

[Jean]

Looks like we have the pole, awesome

[liv2race20]

Great Job Joey Ol Mario is Hanging on go Put him in victory lane

[Canadian Joey Fan]

wow I thought derrike had us lol way to go jjoey! Pole!!