The Home Depot Team Notes of Interest

• The Home Depot Team will begin carrying a special decal this weekend on the C-Post of the No. 20 Toyota Camry honoring store #3023 that was not only destroyed by the tornado that devastated Joplin, Mo., but lost one of its associates. The decal which states, “In Our Hearts Store 3023 Joplin Mo” will be present on the car for the next four race weekends as well as the team’s firesuits and hats. The Home Depot has committed to rebuild the store on its current location, has donated over $1 million in disaster relief for the area and its internal charity The Homer Fund is providing grants to associates who were affected by the storm.
• The Home Depot Team and Joey Logano head to the mid-west this weekend for the STP 400 at Kansas Speedway. Last year, Logano earned his first top-20 finish in three starts (two starts in The Home Depot Toyota). The team hopes to build off last weekend’s third-place finish at Charlotte Motor Speedway this weekend at the 1.5-mile track in Kansas.
• The Home Depot Team and Logano were the biggest movers in the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series standings following their top-five finish in Charlotte. Logano gained five spots in the driver point standings and is now 23rd, just 27 points out of the top 20.
• Logano and The Home Depot Team will participate in the Kentucky tire test for Goodyear on Wednesday. Logano has three starts in the NASCAR Nationwide Series at the Kentucky track and has won from the pole in each race. He’s led a total of 202 of the 600 laps run in the past three races.
• Welcome aboard The Home Depot associates from store #722 in Bellevue, Tenn. The store number will ride along with Logano this weekend at Kansas Speedway. In addition, The Home Depot vendor Makita will adorn the lower rear quarter panel of the No. 20 Toyota Camry. Makita is an industry leader in cordless power tools.
• The No. 20 Home Depot Team is taking chassis #290 to Kansas Speedway this weekend. This will be the first race of the season for this chassis, however Logano piloted chassis #290 once last year in the season-finale at Homestead-Miami Speedway. The back-up chassis is #275 that Logano most recently drove in the Martinsville race following a practice crash that damaged his primary car. He went on to finish the race in the 13th position.

Joey Logano Quotes On Kansas:

“Kansas is an interesting race track. It’s one of those places, kind of like California, where the seams in the track seem to affect the car a lot through the turns. I’ve been really good there in a Nationwide car the previous two times. The Cup car — we haven’t been up to where we would want to be yet. We’re trying to find a little bit more speed there. We’ll see what happens. It’s a good race track and I enjoy it. You move around and can go about anywhere you want so that’s cool.”

“We’re going to run a special decal this weekend for The Home Depot store that was hit hard in Joplin, Mo., by the tornado. I can’t begin to understand what the store associates and the people of that community must be going through. We are keeping them in our thoughts and prayers.”

Joey Logano Career NASCAR Sprint Cup Series Stats

Joey Logano NASCAR Kansas Speedway Stats

Friday, June 3, 2011 Sessions

• STP 400 practice on SPEED at 1:30 pm
• STP 400 final practice on SPEED at 4:30 pm

Saturday, June 4, 2011 Session

• STP 400 qualifying on SPEED at Noon

Sunday, June 5, 2011 Session

• STP 400 on FOX at 1 pm

All times posted above are Eastern time.