Jan 31 2009
Don’t Judge Logano By His 3 Cup Starts
I can’t decide what I am looking forward to more this season. Its either Richard Petty’s 43 car getting back in the winners circle or seeing Joey Logano race a full season with a good car under him. Those 3 races Joey ran last season are not a fair judge of what he can do if only he has the right equipment. For example just look what he did in the Nationwide Series with a good Joe Gibbs prepared car under him. He started 19 races had 1 win, 5 top 5’s and 14 top 10 finishes and also got the pole 3 times. The 3 Sprint Cup races he started 2 of those were in Hall of Fame Racing rides,yeah I know they have an association with Gibbs but you know their not getting the best stuff. So to go by those 2 races and judging Logano is not right. The third race was in a Gibbs car but I believe it was a quickly thrown together car and didn’t handle well. With those 3 poor finishes he still managed to complete 98 % of the laps at all 3 races so he knows how to take care of a car. Ive seen Jeff Hammond on Speed recently saying how he thinks Joey is going to have it rough this season. I hope he’s man enough to admit that he’s wrong when Logano wins a couple races this season. I get all my racing info from Racing Reference, a really cool site with tons of stats on drivers.
