Joey Logano Gets Noticed

In professional sports you need to have a short memory and lots of confidence and Joey Logano appears to have both in spades. A 19-year old rookie driver for Joe Gibbs racing, Joey’s greatest claim to fame lately was his spectacular crash last Sunday at Dover Speedway, which earned him a load of emails, an appearance on Good Morning America and a chance to do it again Friday at Kansas Speedway and in his future NASCAR races. Joey even got a call from veteran NASCAR driver Tony Stewart after the race, as Tony talked with the young racer about his experiences with being upside down in a race car.

Joey Logano is a young and hungry NASCAR racer with winning on his mind

After rolling eight times across the track of Dover in front of thousands of fans, it’s easy to get noticed the next time you head out onto a race track and when he takes his car out onto the track Friday, he’ll be someone to keep your eye on. If this crash scared Logano, you’d never know it by his calm and controlled demeanour. This isn’t the first time he has crashed and it’s something any professional racer is going to experience during their career, unless they’re really lucky. His crash in the Budweiser Shootout earlier in the season was a harder crash than his crash at Dover, but a spectacular eight spin crash is always going to get more attention than a less spectacular crash.

Joey isn’t the only NASCAR driver to find himself in a situation that makes the adrenalin flow, Edward’s crash at Talladega, McDowell’s crash at Texas and Gordon’s crash at Las Vegas were all spectacular crashes that left the racers with no major injuries, which is a testament to the safety features of NASCAR.

Joey only experienced a little bit of stiffness after the crash, but thanks to the safety devices that NASCAR has built into their current Sprint Cup Series car, he can walk around and smile about the crash. He’ll have to quickly forget about his crash if he’s going to be effective on the track in the future and knowing the safety features that protect you work, will make forgetting about the crash and concentrating on driving easier.

Keep an eye out for Logano on the track if you’re watching a Sprint Cup Series race in the future, he’s definitely a young racer with a bright future in NASCAR, and one who will be winning his share of races in the future.

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