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Joey Logano
Middletown, CT
By Gregg Leary
Category:NASCAR
DOB: 5-24-1990
Began racing cars when kids his age were playing with toy cars. He started in quarter midgets when he was 6. (like Jeff Gordon)
At 9 won Bandolero National Championship.
At 12 won 14 straight Legends races at Atlanta. Won Legends National Championship.
At 13 ran Georgia Late Models and Southern All Stars. 3 Wins.
At 14 ASA and ASA Late Models. Five Top Fives.
At 15 won Hooter’s Pro Cup race at Mansfield, OH.
In 2006 won 2 Hooter’s Pro Cup races and finished 5th in Southern Division Points.
Development driver for Joe Gibbs Racing
Was called “The Real Deal” at age 15 by Mark Martin.
Turned 17 on May 24th
Beat Kevin Harvick (All Star Winner and Daytona 500 Champ) in NASCAR Grand National race last Sunday. (Combination East-West) at Iowa Speedway. He and Harvick swapped the lead 15 times. (NASCAR lowered the Age Limit for Grand National from 18 to 16 prior to this season.) He has won 3 of 4 Grand National races in his career so far.
“I got a good start. We went down into turn one and I said, ‘Here we go, checker or wrecker.’” JL
Harvick said he was running on 7 cylinders. Isn’t that what you’re supposed to say after being schooled by a 16 year old? Harvick said, “He makes you feel old in a heartbeat. You wouldn’t know he was 16 the way he raced me.”
Logano won his debut races in Grand National East (4-28-07 Greenville-Pickens, SC) and West (Phoenix 4-19-07) this year. At 16 he became the youngest Busch East winner. (Martin Truex Jr. was the previous youngest at 20.) Logano is also the youngest West winner. (Chuck Bown at 21 was the previous youngest.)
“I go to every race expecting to win…no matter what I’m driving. I’m real competitive. If I don’t run up front, I don’t want to be there.”
Logano prepared for his Phoenix race by playing the NASCAR 2003 video game.
He said he might run a few Whelen Modified races this year.
His goal is to win the Grand National East Championship this year.