173 Facts About Joey Logano

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Joey Logano competes full-time in the NASCAR Cup Series, driving the No 22 Ford Mustang for Team Penske as well as part-time in the NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series, driving the No 66 Ford F-150 for ThorSport Racing.

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Joey Logano previously competed in the NASCAR Xfinity Series as well as what are now the ARCA Menards Series, ARCA Menards Series East and ARCA Menards Series West.

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Joey Logano is the 2018 and 2022 NASCAR Cup Series champion.

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Joey Logano previously drove the No 20 Toyota Camry for Joe Gibbs Racing from 2009 to 2012, scoring two wins, 16 top-five finishes, and 41 top tens.

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Joey Logano competed in the No 02 Toyota Camry for Joe Gibbs Racing and the No 96 Toyota Camry for Hall of Fame Racing, both in 2008 on a part-time basis.

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Joey Logano is currently the youngest ever winner in two of NASCAR's three top divisions.

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Joey Logano is the first NASCAR driver born in the 1990s that has competed in NASCAR's three major divisions.

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Joey Logano is the youngest ever driver to win in both the Cup and Xfinity Series.

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Joey Logano began his racing career in 1996 as a 6-year-old quarter midget racer living in Connecticut.

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Joey Logano followed it up with a Junior Honda Division Championship in 1998 and in early 1999 a Lt.

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Later in 1999, Joey Logano won three New England Regional Championships in Sr.

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Joey Logano spent a couple years racing on various forms of pavement Late Model racing.

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Joey Logano raced in the USAR Hooters Pro Cup Series, competing seven times in the Northern Division, and winning once at Mansfield, two Southern Division races, and five Championship Series races.

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Joey Logano raced in twelve Southern Division races, winning twice at South Georgia Motorsports Park and USA International Speedway.

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Joey Logano ran in one USAR Hooters Pro Cup Series, Northern Division race, and six Championship Series races.

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In 2007, a new NASCAR rule allowed drivers aged 16 and up to race in the Grand National Division, allowing Joey Logano to compete in the series.

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Joey Logano finished the 2007 Grand National season with 13 starts in Camping World East Series, winning five races, three poles, 10 Top 5's, and 10 Top 10's, and winning the championship with wins at Greenville-Pickens Speedway, Iowa Speedway, two wins at New Hampshire International Speedway, and Adirondack International Speedway.

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Joey Logano has made one NASCAR West Series start at Phoenix International Raceway, where he started second and won in the No 10 Joe Gibbs Racing Toyota.

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On October 20,2007, Joey Logano won the Toyota All-Star Showdown at Irwindale Speedway, leading 87 laps and held off Peyton Sellers for the win.

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Joey Logano made his NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series debut, at Talladega, in the Mountain Dew 250, starting sixth and finishing 26th.

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Joey Logano attempted to defend his Toyota All-Star Showdown title he won in the 2007 season by driving in the January 2008 race and was disqualified for crashing into Peyton Sellers in an unsportsmanlike manner on the final lap, in an attempt to win the race.

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Not only was Joey Logano disqualified but he was credited as having run none of the laps of the race completing zero laps.

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Joey Logano became the youngest winner in Nationwide history by winning his first major NASCAR series race at the 2008 Meijer 300 in only his third start, the previous holder of the achievement was Casey Atwood.

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On July 10,2009, Joey Logano won the Dollar General 300 by deciding not to pit unlike his teammate Kyle Busch, who took four tires with twelve laps to go.

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Joey Logano took his fifth series victory at the Kansas Speedway after a late-race pass over teammate Kyle Busch.

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Joey Logano earned his sixth Nationwide Series victory at the Auto Club Speedway.

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Joey Logano won at Auto Club Speedway, after dominating the race in the Trans-Lux Camry.

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Joey Logano won his second race of the season at Talladega Superspeedway after a push from Kyle Busch and holding off Ricky Stenhouse Jr.

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In 2013 at Dover, Joey Logano won both the NNS races for a third and fourth consecutive time in the Nationwide series.

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In May 2014 at Dover, Joey Logano saw his four-race winning streak come to an end when Kyle Busch won the spring race at the track.

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Joey Logano looked to be in a good position to win, starting from the pole for the fourth time at the track, but he was held up by Matt Kenseth for over 60 laps making Busch unreachable.

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Joey Logano started his 2015 Xfinity Series schedule at Atlanta by winning the pole and finishing second.

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Joey Logano won from the pole and led 176 of 200 laps.

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Joey Logano scored his 2nd career perfect driver rating by dominating the race.

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On March 28,2015, Joey Logano driving for Brad Keselowski Racing started on Pole, led 150 of the 258 laps, and easily won his first Camping World Truck Series race in the Kroger 250 at Martinsville.

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Joey Logano became the 26th different driver to win in all three major series, the first since his teammate and truck owner Brad Keselowski did it when he won the UNOH 200 Truck race at Bristol in August 2014.

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In between these two races, Joey Logano had been in contention for a victory at Talladega up until a last-lap crash relegating him to the 27th position.

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Back in the number 12, Joey Logano would take his 27th career win in the Drive for Cure 300 at Charlotte stealing the race win from a dominant Kyle Larson, this would be his second and final win of the year.

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Joey Logano returned to the Truck Series in 2022, driving the David Gilliland Racing No 54 to a sixth place finish at the Bristol dirt race.

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Joey Logano replaced Tony Stewart who left JGR to form and drive for his own team, Stewart-Haas Racing.

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Joey Logano was a candidate for the 2008 Rookie of the Year award and was scheduled to make his first Sprint Cup start in the No 02 Home Depot-sponsored car at Richmond, but failed to qualify for the event.

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Joey Logano's official debut was at the 2008 Sylvania 300 at New Hampshire on September 14,2008, by starting that race, he became the first NASCAR driver born in the 1990s to run a Cup Series event.

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Joey Logano was not in the Top 43 in owners points, so he did not get to debut.

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Joey Logano is the youngest modern-era driver to compete full-time in NASCAR's top division.

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In 2009, Joey Logano finished fourth in his first Gatorade Duel, and would become the youngest driver to start the Daytona 500 he would crash midway through the race and finish dead last.

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Joey Logano won the fan vote for the 2009 NASCAR Sprint All-Star Race and finished eighth.

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On June 28,2009, Joey Logano won the rain-shortened Lenox Industrial Tools 301 at Loudon, New Hampshire, beating Jeff Gordon and Tony Stewart, becoming the youngest winner ever in the Sprint Cup Series at the age of only 19 years, one month, and four days old.

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On November 22,2009, Joey Logano was crowned the official 2009 Sprint Cup Series Raybestos Rookie of the Year, having beat out other rookies Scott Speed and Max Papis.

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Joey Logano won his first Coors Light Pole Award on March 19,2010, for the Food City 500 at Bristol Motor Speedway.

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Joey Logano struggled through the 2011 season, with just four Top 5's, six Top 10's, and two pole positions, en route to a career-worst 24th-place finish in the final points standings.

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In 2012, following several wins in the Nationwide Series, Joey Logano won his second Sprint Cup Series race at the Pocono 400 at Pocono Raceway, after bumping Mark Martin with four laps to go, and holding off Martin and Tony Stewart.

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Joey Logano became the first driver in 30 races to win a race from the pole position.

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Joey Logano scored one other Top 5 and 11 other Top 10 finishes en route to a 17th-place finish in the final points standings.

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Joey Logano ended his final Nationwide series at Joe Gibbs Racing on a high note, winning a series-high nine races.

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On September 4,2012, it was announced that Joey Logano would be leaving Joe Gibbs Racing and heading to Penske Racing in 2013, following an announcement that Matt Kenseth would drive the No 20 Toyota.

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Late in the race, it would appear that Joey Logano passed Hamlin on the track, but both had issues and Hamlin finished 23rd; Joey Logano claimed that his former teammate intentionally wrecked him.

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The next week, at Auto Club Speedway, Joey Logano had his breakout race, leading 41 laps.

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Hamlin fractured his vertebra in the crash and after the race, Joey Logano was confronted by Tony Stewart, who slipped back to 22nd after Joey Logano blocked him on the final restart.

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Stewart pushed Joey Logano, who responded by throwing a water bottle at him.

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Joey Logano was forced to start from the rear of the field because his car wasn't on the starting grid until after the command had been given, but he rallied for a fifth-place finish.

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Joey Logano was able to rebound the following week at Richmond with a third-place run.

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At Talladega, Joey Logano finished 35th with an engine failure after 143 laps.

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Joey Logano then had another 40th-place finish the following week at New Hampshire after being involved in a crash early in the race.

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In qualifying at Michigan, Joey Logano won his sixth career pole position with a track-record lap speed of 203.949 miles per hour ; this was at the time the ninth fastest qualifying speed in NASCAR history, and the fastest since Bill Elliott's qualifying run at Talladega in 1987.

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Joey Logano later went on to win the Pure Michigan 400, making it his first win with Penske Racing.

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Also thanks to the win, Joey Logano seeded sixth in the Cup standings after it was reset.

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Joey Logano then had back-to-back Top 5's with a third-place finish at Dover and a fourth-place finish at Kansas.

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Joey Logano started with an 11th-place finish in the 2014 Daytona 500, followed by a fourth-place run at Phoenix.

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Joey Logano won his first pole of the year at Las Vegas, taking another fourth-place finish.

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At Texas, Joey Logano running with consistent speed got his first win of the season after leading the most laps and performing a last-lap pass on Jeff Gordon during a green-white-checkered finish.

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At Richmond, Joey Logano led late and pulled a Ron Bouchard-style move during a shuffle between Jeff Gordon, Brad Keselowski, and Matt Kenseth in the last nine laps, to slip away with a victory.

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At Loudon, Joey Logano was running second to Keselowski when he was involved in an accident with the lap-down car of Morgan Shepherd.

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Joey Logano said in an interview that Shepherd should have not have been on the track running those very slow speeds, but NASCAR responded that Shepherd maintained minimum speed.

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Joey Logano took his third win of the season at Bristol in the Irwin Tools Night Race.

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Joey Logano finished in fourth place in the Challenger Round opener at Chicagoland Speedway moving him to third in points.

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Joey Logano would go on to win at New Hampshire, locking him into the Contender Round.

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Joey Logano took four tires on lap 247, while the other front-runners ran on older tires, giving Logano the advantage.

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Joey Logano took the lead with 27 to go and won the race after a green-white-checkered finish.

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On September 25,2014, it was announced that Joey Logano had signed a multi-year contract extension with Team Penske.

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Joey Logano followed this up with a fourth-place finish at Charlotte.

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At Talladega, Joey Logano finished 11th after helping Keselowski get to the front on the final restart.

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Joey Logano entered the Eliminator Round as the points leader, beginning with a fifth-place finish at Martinsville.

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Joey Logano had one pole, eight Top 2 starts, and started in the Top 10 in 26 of 36 races.

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Joey Logano missed the final round of qualifying in only five of the 36 races, a series best.

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Joey Logano was consistently near the top of most major statistical categories in 2014 including; laps led, average start, average finish, and average driver rating.

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Joey Logano's season began with an incident with Kevin Harvick during the Sprint Unlimited.

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Harvick, who questioned a late-race incident with Joey Logano, exchanged heated words with Joey Logano.

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Joey Logano became the second-youngest winner of the Daytona 500 and gave team owner Roger Penske his second victory in the race, his first coming with Ryan Newman in 2008.

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At Auto Club Speedway, Joey Logano started 13th and ran in the Top 5 most of the day, but a controversial late-race pit road violation set him back in the field; however, he recovered quickly to finish seventh.

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Joey Logano won his second Cup pole of the season and during the race, led the second-most laps and finished third.

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At Talladega, Joey Logano was caught up in a multicar wreck on the back straightaway on lap 47 and finished 33rd.

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Joey Logano dropped from second to fourth in the points standings after the race.

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Joey Logano won the pole for the fourth time and , finished fifth.

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At Watkins Glen, Joey Logano started 16th, and went on to win the race, leading only the final lap after Harvick ran out of fuel before entering the final two turns.

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At Michigan, Joey Logano went on to bring home a seventh-place finish in the Pure Michigan 400.

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The next week at Martinsville, Joey Logano had the dominant car for most of the race.

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However, Matt Kenseth, in retaliation for Joey Logano spinning him out a couple of weeks earlier, deliberately crashed Joey Logano with less than 50 laps to go; an action that was met with mixed emotions from drivers, but the fans erupted with applause.

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Joey Logano didn't do well at Texas, cutting a tire and spinning out, winding up 40th.

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Joey Logano went on to finish fourth at the season finale, and finished sixth in the final point standings.

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In 2016, Joey Logano had a rocky start compared to 2015.

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Joey Logano won his third straight pole at Martinsville he would struggle throughout the race before finishing 11th.

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At Kansas and Talladega, Joey Logano went back to back with DNFs from crashes.

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Joey Logano won his first Sprint Cup All-Star Race after making a pass on Kyle Larson with two laps remaining.

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Joey Logano won the FireKeepers Casino 400 after a good final restart.

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Joey Logano won the race from the pole, the second time he won from the pole at Michigan.

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At Kentucky, Joey Logano had an early exit on lap 54 after cutting a right-front tire, finishing 39th.

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Joey Logano fought back with a third-place finish at New Hampshire and a seventh-place finish at Indianapolis.

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At Pocono, while on lap 115, Joey Logano was racing Ryan Newman to his outside and Denny Hamlin to his inside when Chase Elliott got to his inside, got loose, got into Joey Logano and sent both of them into the wall.

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At Charlotte, the opening race in the Round of 12, Joey Logano's day ended early with a series of tire blowouts, leaving him with a 36th-place finish.

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At Talladega, Joey Logano was penalized early when his car left pit road dragging the jack during the first round of green-flag pit stops, but went on to win the race in overtime and clinched a spot in the Round of 8.

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Joey Logano led 45 laps at Homestead and had a significant chance to win his first Cup series championship.

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Unlike in previous years at Penske, Joey Logano had a miserable year.

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Joey Logano started the year however by winning the Advance Auto Parts Clash after sneaking through the last lap incident between Brad Keselowski and Denny Hamlin.

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The contact spun Busch out and onto pit road; Joey Logano finished fourth, while Busch dropped to 22nd.

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Joey Logano became the sixth driver to win in his 300th start.

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However, Joey Logano's car was discovered to have a rear suspension issue, forcing NASCAR to declare his victory an "encumbered" win; as a result, while his win was not stripped, it did not allow him to lock a spot into the playoffs.

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Joey Logano had a rough race that saw him fall from second on the start to mid-pack.

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Joey Logano battled setbacks such as a speeding penalty, and a cut tire which caused him to stay mid-pack for the rest of his race.

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Joey Logano was charging towards the Top 10, when his car's brakes broke, causing him to crash Danica Patrick and cause a fiery accident.

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Joey Logano was visibly shaken following the wreck in a post-race interview.

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Joey Logano then had consistent finishes like his seventh at Chicagoland Speedway, and fourth at Talladega.

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Joey Logano finished the season with a 6th-place finish at Homestead-Miami Speedway.

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Joey Logano finished the season 17th in the points standings.

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Joey Logano started the season with a second-place finish in the Clash.

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Joey Logano followed that up with a second-place finish in his duel, losing to teammate Ryan Blaney.

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Joey Logano had his ups and downs at the 2018 Daytona 500 with a tire rub and a pit penalty but rebounded to finish fourth after avoiding a wreck with two laps left.

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Joey Logano had finished every race up until the second Daytona race, where he was involved in one of the pile-ups triggered by Ricky Stenhouse Jr.

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Joey Logano ended the regular season sixth in points heading into the playoffs.

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Joey Logano started off the playoffs with a strong fourth-place finish at Las Vegas.

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Joey Logano started the Round of 12 by finishing third at Dover and fifth at Talladega.

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Joey Logano became the evident flag bearer for his team.

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Joey Logano won the fall Martinsville race after a fierce battle with Martin Truex Jr.

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Joey Logano had dominated the event, leading 309 of 500 laps, taking home his first grandfather clock.

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Joey Logano then made a consecutive streak of Top 10's with a third-place finish at Texas.

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Joey Logano had a bad weekend at Phoenix, but prior in the press, he felt that he was the favorite for the championship, he suffered a flat tire in the second stage of the race in which ended his race, and his sixth-consecutive Top 10 finishes, although he still advanced, even if he had finished second to fifth, in which he would have won a tiebreaker over Chase Elliott if he finished fifth.

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Joey Logano started the season with a third-place finish in the rain-delayed Clash, in the duel, he made a big move on Clint Bowyer who led 41 laps on the final lap and won the duel only leading one lap, the last one.

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Joey Logano started 4th at the Daytona, starting the season as a strong contender for the championship.

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Joey Logano left Daytona second in points, tied for the points lead with Denny Hamlin.

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Joey Logano rebounded at Las Vegas, holding off teammate Brad Keselowski for his first win at the track.

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Joey Logano followed up his win with a 10th-place run at Phoenix and a runner-up finish at Fontana.

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At Martinsville, Joey Logano scored his fifth pole in seven races, making it the 10th consecutive season where he has won a pole.

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Joey Logano led the first five laps and didn't lead the race again.

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Joey Logano finished third eventually behind the Busch brothers of Kyle and Kurt.

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Late in the day at Richmond, having won Stage 2 and finished 2nd at Stage 1, Joey Logano had the better car and was chasing Martin Truex Jr.

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Joey Logano led at the restart, but was no match for the pack of Chevrolet Camaros of Chase Elliott, Bowman, and rookie Ryan Preece and ended up finishing fourth.

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Joey Logano finished seventh, extending his stretch of Top 10 finishes to four.

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Joey Logano finished 10th in the first stage and finished 15th, 1 lap down though, Kyle Busch, the points leader after Dover, finished 30th, and as a result, Logano took the lead in points.

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At Dover, Joey Logano was forced to head to the garage before the opening laps to have a busted rear axle fixed.

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Joey Logano returned to the race 24 laps down and was criticized by Denny Hamlin for racing the lead cars hard.

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At Martinsville, Hamlin collided with Joey Logano on turn four, squeezing Joey Logano into the outside wall and causing him to lose a tire and spin out two laps later.

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At Homestead, Joey Logano finished fifth in the race and the final points standings, the highest in points among non-Championship 4 drivers.

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Joey Logano was running at the finish in every single race in 2019, alongside Ty Dillon as the only two to accomplish the feat.

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Joey Logano finished 26th at the Daytona 500 due to a collision with Ross Chastain.

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Joey Logano locked himself in the Championship 4 after beating Kevin Harvick at Kansas.

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Joey Logano was uninjured, but showed displeasure with NASCAR over safety concerns and the package in his interview, bringing up Ryan Newman's accident at the Daytona 500 the previous year.

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Joey Logano made it all the way to the Round of 8 before being eliminated after Martinsville.

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Joey Logano finished the season 8th in the points standings.

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Joey Logano began the 2022 season by winning the 2022 Busch Light Clash at The Coliseum.

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Joey Logano scored his first win of the season at Darlington by bumping William Byron to the wall with two laps to go, infuriating both Byron and the crowd.

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Joey Logano scored his second win of the season at the inaugural Gateway race.

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Joey Logano started the 2023 season with a second-place finish at the 2023 Daytona 500.

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Joey Logano scored his first win of the season at Atlanta.

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In 2009, Joey Logano co-hosted an episode of WWE Raw with Kyle Busch.

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Joey Logano appeared in Cartoon Network's Destroy Build Destroy in the episode "NASCAR Pile-Up Logano vs Edwards", where he would beat Carl Edwards.

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In 2013, Joey Logano guest-starred on a season two episode of Disney XD's Lab Rats.

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Joey Logano appeared on an episode of the American reality television series Pawn Stars where he inspected a Mustang GT alongside Rick Harrison.

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Joey Logano had a cameo appearance as a security guard in the 2017 film Logan Lucky.

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In 2016, Joey Logano was a Fox NASCAR guest analyst for the Xfinity Series races at Phoenix and Richmond.

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On November 13,2013, Joey Logano announced his engagement to childhood sweetheart Brittany Baca.

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Joey Logano announced, via Twitter, that their wedding date was set for December 2014, during the NASCAR off-season.

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In September 2019, Joey Logano was diagnosed with Alopecia areata, an autoimmune disorder that attacks hair follicles.

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In December 2022, after winning his second NASCAR Cup Series Championship, Joey Logano received hair treatment, sporting it in a twitter post.

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In March 2020, the Joey Logano Foundation partnered with Bobbee O's BBQ in Charlotte, North Carolina, to offer free meals to children during the COVID-19 lockdown.