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.