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