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Joey Logano Food City 250 Photos

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Double duty this weekend for Joey Logano at the Bristol Motor Speedway located in Bristol, Tennessee.

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.”

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Joey Logano started from the 27th position today in the Carfax 400 and finished in 10th. It is Logano’s 9th top ten finish of the year.

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

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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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Results from today’s sessions at the Michigan International Speedway are posted below for each respective NASCAR series.

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.

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