Joey Logano

Joseph Thomas "Joey" Logano (born May 24, 1990) is a professional race car driver from United States who currently competes full-time in the NASCAR Cup Series, driving the No. 22 Ford Mustang GT for Team Penske. He is the 2018 Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series champion, Logano previously drove the No. 20 Toyota Camry for Joe Gibbs Racing from 2008 to 2012, earning 2 wins, 5 poles, 16 top 5s and 41 top 10s.

Logano's first major win in NASCAR came during the Meijer 300 at Kentucky Speedway in just his third NASCAR Nationwide Series race in 2008. Logano became the youngest driver to win a Nationwide Series race at 18 years and 21 days old. The previous youngest was Casey Atwood in 1999 at 18 years and 313 days old. Logano became the youngest winner in NASCAR Cup Series history when he won the 2009 Lenox Industrial Tools 301 at New Hampshire Motor Speedway at 19 years, 1 month and 4 days of age. The previous youngest was Kyle Busch in the 2005 NASCAR Nextel Cup Series season at 20 years, 4 months and 2 days old. Logano is now the youngest winner in two of NASCAR's top three divisions. Logano was also the first NASCAR driver born in the 1990s to compete in all three major NASCAR divisions. In 2015, he became the second-youngest winner of the 2015 Daytona 500 behind Trevor Bayne.

Early years
Logano was born in Middletown, Conneticut, the son of Deborah (Bidduk) and Thomas J. Logano. His father is of the Italian descent. He began his sports career in 1996 as a 6-year-old boy. In 1997, Logano won his first Eastern Grand National Championship in the Jr. Stock Car division. He followed it up with a Jr. Honda division championship in 1998 and in early 1999 a Mod. Division Championship. Later in 1999 Logano won 3 New England Regional Championships in the divisions Mr. Stock, Lt. Mod; Lt.B.

Logano's family later moved to Georgia. The transaction allowed Logano to win a Bandits Series Championship. At the age of 10 he moved on to racing Legend cars, where he established a 14-race win streak at Atlanta Motor Speedway, along with a Lions National Championship. At age 12, Logano won the Southeast-based Pro Legends national championship. He then spent a couple of years racing in Late Model Racing.

Veteran NASCAR Cup Series driver Mark Martin, who was driving for Jack Roush (Roush Fenway Racing) at the time, called Logano "The Real Deal"; When Logano was 15 years old, Martin said: "I'm excited about Joey Logano because I'm absolutely 100% sure, without a doubt that he can be one of the best that has ever raced in NASCAR. I'm sure, definitely in mind." Logano was also nicknamed "sliced ​​bread" by two-time NASCAR Busch Series champion Randy LaJoie.

In the 2005 season, he raced in 1 NASCAR Pro Truck Series race at New Smyrna Speedway, starting first and finishing second. He 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. The following season, he continued to compete in the USAR Hooters Pro Cup Series. He raced in twelve Southern Division races, winning twice at South Georgia Motorsports Park and USA International Speedway. He raced in one USAR Hooters Pro Cup series, North Division race and six Championship Series races.

In 2007, a new NASCAR rule allowed drivers 16 and older to compete in the Grand National Division, allowing Logano to compete in the series. He finished the 2007 Grand National season with 13 starts in the Camping World East Series, winning 5 races, 3 poles, 10 Top 5s and 10 Top 10s, and winning the championship with wins at Greenville-Pickens Speedway, Iowa Speedway, two wins at New Hampshire International Speedway and Adirondack International Speedway. He has also made 1 start in the NASCAR West Series at Phoenix International Raceway, where he started 2nd and won with him in the No. 10 Joe Gibbs Racing Toyota. On October 20, 2007, Logano won the Toyota All-Star Showdown at Irwindale Speedway, leading 87 laps and beating Peyton Sellers for the win.

On May 4, 2008, Logano won the Carolina 500 during his ARCA Racing Series debut with Venturini Motorsports in the return of racing to Rockingham Speedway. Logano also made his NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series debut, at Talladega, in the Mountain Dew 250, starting sixth and finishing 26th. 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. Logano was not only disqualified, he was not credited for any of the race laps completing 0 laps.

2008
Logano made his NASCAR Nationwide Series debut at the Dover International Speedway in the 2008 Heluva Good 200. Logano became the youngest winner in history of the Xfinity Series by winning his first NASCAR race at the 2008 Meijer 300 in just his third start, the previous winner was Casey Atwood.

2009
On July 10, 2009 Logano won the Dollar General 300 by deciding not to race unlike his teammate Kyle Busch, who took four tires with twelve laps to go. Leading the pack, the clean air made it easy to beat Joe Gibbs Racing teammate Kyle Busch by five lengths, making it the first time he's won at the Chicago racetrack. He earned his fifth series victory at Kansas Speedway after a final race over his teammate Kyle Busch. He earned his sixth Nationwide Series victory at Auto Club Speedway. In April 2009, Joey won the NASCAR Nationwide Series race at Nashville.

2011
On July 1, 2011, he won the Subway Jalapeño 250 at Daytona International Speedway, avoiding a last-second accident. In mid-2011, Logano made a cameo appearance on the series, in the episode "Moonlighting", as himself.

2012
In 2012, he won 9 times in the Nationwide Series. He won at Auto Club Speedway, after dominating the race in the Trans-Lux Camry. He won his second race of the year at Talladega Superspeedway after a push from Kyle Busch and holding off Ricky Stenhouse Jr. and Cole Whitt. His third win of the year came with controversy after a late restart, he took out Points leader Elliott Sadler for the win. His fourth win came at Dover International Speedway, after passing Ryan Truex with 4 laps to go after being held up in traffic. His fifth win came at Michigan International Speedway after stopping James Buescher on the final restart. In August at Bristol Logano took the lead from Kevin Harvick during the pits and on the restart held off Eliott Sadler to earn his first Bristol win of his career. He went on to sweep the entire Nationwide race at Dover, winning his eighth race of the year at Charlotte in October. In November he won the Nationwide race at Phoenix, which would ultimately be the last race Logano would score in a Joe Gibbs Racing car. Joe Gibbs Racing's No. 18 Nationwide car won the 2012 NASCAR Owners' National Championship primarily due in part to Logano's success in the car during the 2012 season.

2013
In 2013 at Dover, Logano won both NNS races for the third and fourth straight Nationwide Series races. This made him the only driver to win 4 consecutive races at Dover in any series, and the all-time Nationwide Series leader at the track. In addition to his wins at Dover, he took home a Nationwide win at Chicagoland Speedway during a Cup Series the week of July. The No. 22 Team Penske car won the Nationwide Series owners' title in 2013, a feat Logano has contributed to three times in his career, once at Penske and twice at JGR. The 2013 Nationwide Series owners' title was the first for Team Penske.

2014
In May 2014 at Dover, Logano saw his 4 win streak come to an end when Kyle Busch won the spring race at the track. Logano appeared to be in a good position to win, starting on the pole for the fourth time on the track, but Matt Kenseth held him up for more than 60 laps, making Busch uncatchable. He had to settle for third place. In his next Nationwide Series start at Michigan, Logano was leading with 4 laps to go and on his way to his first win of the season, but suffered a flat tire and was relegated to 16th place.

2015
Logano began his 2015 Xfinity Series schedule in Atlanta by winning the pole and finishing in second place. In his second race of the season Logano finally returned to victory lane in the Xfinity Series at Phoenix International Raceway on March 14, 2015. He won from the pole and led 176 of the 200 laps. He also scored his second career perfect driver rating by dominating the race. On April 18, 2015, Logano led every lap of the Drive to Stop Diabetes 300 at Bristol after starting second. As a result, he got his second victory at Bristol in the series and the rating of 3rd best perfect driver.

On March 28, 2015, Logano driving for Brad Keselowski Racing started on pole, led 150 of 258 laps, and easily won his first NASCAR Camping World Truck Series series race at the Kroger 250 at Martinsville. He became the 26th different driver to win in all three major series, the first since teammate and truck owner Brad Keselowski did when he won the UNOH 200 truck race at Bristol in August 2014. His first pole position and the victory in the series came in his seventh career start.

2016
The 2016 NASCAR Xfinity Series started off well for Logano with a close second-place finish to Chase Elliott in the season opener at Daytona. However, in the next few races, the Penske 22 car lacked the speed it had in previous years, and Logano was only able to take ninth at Bristol and seventh at Dover. In between these two races Logano had been in contention for a victory at Talladega until a last lap crash that relegated him to 27th position. Charlotte, Pocono and Michigan saw finishes of 3rd, 5th and 6th respectively. Logano would have to wait until Watkins Glen claimed his first win of the season driving a Penske side entry to number 12 at Watkins Glen, most of the race was stiff competition between Logano and Keselowski, who would eventually meet in trouble and would retire, allowing Logano to collect his 26th career win. Chicagoland saw Logano again struggle with a lack of speed driving the 22nd to a 7th-place finish. Back in No. 12, Logano would claim his 27th career win at the Drive for Cure 300 at Charlotte, stealing the victory from a dominant Kyle Larson, this would be his second and final win of the year. His Xfinity Series campaign ended with a strong fourth at Kansas, failing to get the flagship 22 car into victory lane in 2016.

2017
In 2017 Logano achieved a victory in Las Vegas, a second place in California, abandonment in Texas, a top 3 in Talladega, an eighth and sixth place in Daytona and Kentucky, another top 3 in Indianapolis, a ninth place in Bristol and a second place at Darlington totaling one win, five top-five finishes and eight top-10 finishes.

2018
In 2018, Logano started the season with a wreck at Daytona, a second place finish at Atlanta and a win at Fontana and notched another win at Watkins Glen.

2019
In the 2019 NASCAR Xfinity Series season, Logano ran two races at the Chicagoland and Bristol tracks, earning a second-place finish and a wreck, respectively.

2008: Beginnings
On August 25, 2008, Joe Gibbs Racing called a press conference to announce that Logano would be driving the No. 20 Toyota Camry in the 2009 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series. Logano replaced Tony Stewart who left JGR to drive for his own team, Stewart-Haas Racing. Logano was also a candidate for the 2008 Rookie of the Year award and was scheduled to drive his first Sprint Cup Series in the No. 02 Home Depot car at Richmond, but failed to qualify for the event.

On August 28, Hall of Fame Racing announced that Logano would drive five races in his No. 96 car during the 2008 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series season. His official debut was at New Hampshire on September 14; beginning that career, he became the first NASCAR driver born in the 1990s to race a Cup event. On September 5, Logano made his first appearance in a Sprint Cup car at Richmond International Raceway in Friday's two-hour practice for the Chevy Rock & Roll 400. Due to, qualifying was rained out. A NASCAR rule states that when qualifying is suspended, the top 43 drivers in owner points are set for the race. Logano wasn't in the top 43 in owner points, so he didn't make his debut.

Logano is the youngest driver in the postmodern era to compete full-time in NASCAR's top division (records show drivers as young as 15 competitors in NASCAR's top division, but those records will stand due to age requirements).

2009: Youngest Driver to Win in History
In 2009, Logano finished fourth in his first Gatorade Duel and would become the youngest driver to start the Daytona 500, however he would crash midway through the race and end up dead last. Logano's first three starts in the Sprint Cup Series saw three finishes of 30th or worse. Las Vegas was his sixth start in the Sprint Cup series, he finished 13th. In April, Logano finished ninth for his first top-10 finish at Talladega; later that month at Darlington, he led 19 laps at the end of the race and finished ninth. Logano won the 2009 NASCAR Sprint All-Star Race fan vote, finishing in eighth place.

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

On November 22, 2009, Logano was crowned the official 2009 Sprint Cup Raybestos Rookie of the Year, after beating fellow rookies Scott Speed ​​and Max Papis.

2010: Youngest Poleman in History
Logano won his first Coors Light Pole Award on March 19, 2010, for the Food City 500 at Bristol Motor Speedway. He posted 7 top fives and 16 top ten finishes en route to 16th in the final points.

2011: Unforgettable season
Logano struggled during the 2011 season, with just four top-fives and six top-10 finishes, and two pole positions, en route to a 24th-place finish in points standings.

Crew chief Greg Zipadelli left the No. 20 team at the end of the 2011 season to become director of competition at Stewart-Haas Racing. Jason Ratcliff was named Logano's new crew chief beginning with the 2012 season.

2012: Last season at Joe Gibbs Racing
In 2012, after several Nationwide Series wins, Logano won his second Sprint Cup race in the Pocono 400 at Pocono Raceway, after passing Mark Martin with four laps to go, and holding off Martin and Tony Stewart. Logano became the first driver in 30 races to win a race from pole position. It was also the first time Logano had won a race that had run the scheduled distance (since his 2009 victory had been in a rain-shortened event). He scored another Top 5 finish and 11 other 10 Top 10 finishes en route to a 17th-place finish in the final points standings.

2013: First season at Team Penske
On September 4, 2012, it was announced that Logano would be leaving Joe Gibbs Racing for Penske Racing in 2013, following the announcement that Matt Kenseth would be driving the #20 Toyota.

Logano moved into the No. 22 Shell/Pennzoil Ford for Penske, finishing 17th at Bristol after losing control following contact with Denny Hamlin. Late in the race, it appears that Logano passed Hamlin on the track, but both struggled and Hamlin finished 23rd; Logano claimed that his former teammate intentionally ripped him apart.

The following week at Auto Club Speedway, Logano had his race for the breakout, leading 41 laps. The final laps saw an intense dogfight between him and Hamlin; on the final lap proper, Logano and Hamlin were driving hard side by side down the straight, in what looked like what was going to be a repeat of Darlington's 2003 photo finish, but into the final corner, neither two got up, both were wrecked, while Kyle Busch got away and took the win. Hamlin fractured his vertebra in the crash and after the race, Logano was confronted by Tony Stewart, who slipped back to 22nd after Logano blocked him on the final restart. Stewart pushed Logano, who responded by throwing a water bottle at him. Hamlin fractured his vertebra in the crash and after the race, Logano faced Tony Stewart, who dropped to 22nd after Logano locked him out on the final restart. Stewart pushed Logano, who responded by throwing a water bottle at him. Logano was scored in 3rd place.

Just before the start of the NRA 500 at Texas Motor Speedway, both the Penske Racing cars driven by Logano and Keselowski failed pre-race inspection due to a problem with the rear cases of the cars. Logano was forced to start from the back of the field because his car wasn't on the grid until after he was given the command, but he recovered for a fifth-place finish. Three days later, NASCAR released large penalties for the violation. Logano and Keselowski each scored 25 points in the drivers' championship; Logano's crew chief Todd Gordon was also fined $100,000 and suspended for six weeks. Car boss Raymond Fox and team engineer Samuel Stanley were also suspended for the same length of time. Identical sanctions were applied to all people in the same positions on Keselowski's team. But on May 1, the NASCAR Appeals Panel unanimously upheld the penalties. Team owner Roger Penske said he would further appeal the decision to NASCAR chief appeals officer John Middlebrook.

Meanwhile, on the track after Logano's fifth-place finish at Texas, he had a low weekend at Kansas when he collided with a spinning Kyle Busch on lap 105, destroying the front ends of both cars and ending their days. This would relegate him to a 39th position. He was able to bounce back the following week at Richmond with a third-place run. At Talladega, Logano finished 35th with an engine failure after 143 laps. At Darlington he struggled with the handling of his car and finished 22nd, two laps down.

After racing at Darlington, Logano bounced back to finish in the Top 11 in a streak of six straight races through the summer: 5th at Charlotte, 7th at Dover, 10th at Pocono, 9th at Michigan, 11th at Sonoma and 4th at Kentucky.

Returning to Daytona for the Coke Zero 400, Logano was running well until he cut a tire and hit the outside wall on lap 71, leaving him with a 40th-place finish. He then had another 40th-place finish the following week at New Hampshire after being involved in a crash early in the race.

After a two-race streak of bad luck, Logano regained momentum, with six consecutive Top 10 finishes: 8th at Indianapolis, and 7th at Pocono and Watkins Glen.

In qualifying at Michigan, Logano earned his sixth pole position with a race speed of 203.949 mph; at the time it was the ninth-fastest qualifying speed in NASCAR history, and the fastest since Bill Elliott's qualifying race at Talladega in 1987. He later won the Pure Michigan 400, becoming his first win with Penske Racing. Thanks to that win, and two other Top 5 finishes at Bristol and Atlanta (where he led 78 laps and almost won), he entered Richmond eighth in the standings with a shot at winning the Chase for the first time in his career. race. At Richmond, he struggled with a poorly handled race car to 22nd, but was good enough to beat Jeff Gordon (who finished 8th) by just one point for 10th in the points and made his first appearance in the chase. . Even if he had dropped to 11th, he would still have held the second wild card thanks to being ahead of Martin Truex, Jr. and Ryan Newman in points (Kasey Kahne) had already locked down the first wild card with wins at Bristol and Pocono). Also thanks to the win, Logano was ranked sixth in the Cup standings after it was restarted.

Logano began his first Chase race by qualifying on pole at the GEICO 400 at Chicagoland with a new track qualifying speed record of 189.414 mph. However, he finished 37th in the race due to engine failure late in the race. This was followed by a 14th-place finish at New Hampshire. Logano then had five straight top-five finishes, with a third-place finish at Dover and fourth at Kansas. This was followed by three Top 20 finishes: 18th at Charlotte, 16th at Talladega, and 14th at Martinsville. He finished the season with three consecutive Top 10 finishes: third at Texas, ninth at Phoenix and eighth at Homestead-Miami, moving him to a career-best eighth in the final points.

2014: First great season
Logano started with an 11th-place finish at the 2014 Daytona 500, followed by a fourth race at Phoenix. He won his first pole of the year at Las Vegas, earning another fourth place finish.

At Texas, Logano running steady earned his first win of the season after leading the most laps (108) and making a final-lap pass to Jeff Gordon during a green-white-checkered finish. This win locked him in the 2014 Chase.

At Richmond (a track where he had seen little success in his short career), Logano led late and threw a Ron Bouchard-esque move during a switch between Jeff Gordon, Brad Keselowski and Matt Kenseth in the final nine laps, to slip away with a win The win marked 2014 as Logano's first career multi-win season.

Logano made his 200th series start at Kentucky Speedway on June 28 at the age of 24.

At Loudon, Logano was second to Keselowski when he was involved in an accident with Morgan Shepherd's car. Logano said in an interview that Shepherd shouldn't have been on the track running at such slow speeds, but NASCAR countered that Shepherd kept to the minimum speed.

Logano scored his third win of the season at Bristol in the Irwin Tools Night Race. Keselowski finished second in the same race, making Team Penske its second 1-2 in its history, the other coming in the 2008 Daytona 500.

Logano started the Chase seeded fifth. He finished fourth in the first round of the Challenger at Chicagoland Speedway and placed third in points.

Logano would go on to win at New Hampshire, locking him out of the contenders round. He took four tires on lap 247 while the other front runners ran on older tires, giving Logano the lead. Amazingly, he was able to go from 16th to 2nd in 11 laps. He took the lead with 27 to go and won the race after a green-white-checkered finish. The win moved him to second place in points, one point behind Keselowski. This victory marked Penske's third consecutive victory and fourth in 5 races.

On September 25, 2014, it was announced that Logano had signed a multi-year contract extension with Team Penske. This extension came a full season before his contract expired at the end of the 2015 season. The contract extends Logano's tenure with Team Penske to at least 2018.

At Dover, Logano would finish 4th, making him the only driver to finish Top 5 in all three contending round races. He would finish the second round on points.

Logano started the Contender Round by winning at Kansas. This gave him the lead in the standings for the first time in his career. With the win, he was the first driver to advance to the Eliminator Round in the Chase for the Sprint Cup. Logano followed this up with a fourth-place finish at Charlotte. This was his fifth consecutive top-five finish, making him the first driver to start the Chase with five consecutive top-five finishes, surpassing the previous record of four set by Juan Pablo Montoya in 2009.

At Talladega, Logano finished 11th after helping Keselowski to the front on the final restart. Keselowski needed a win to advance to the next round of the Chase and was able to pull that off in part thanks to Logano.

Logano entered the Eliminator Round as the points leader, starting with a fifth-place finish at Martinsville. At Texas, he fended off pit lane tire problems that led to a spin-out and finished 12th. Going into the final race of the knockout round, Logano was tied for 1st in points with a 13-point lead over the final transfer point. He would finish sixth at Phoenix, easily advancing to the Championship round alongside Denny Hamlin, Ryan Newman and Kevin Harvick.

In the final round, he ended up finishing last of the final four drivers. The result was affected by some mistakes made by his pit crew, relegating him to 16th place.

Logano and his teammate Keselowski dominated in the new knockout-style standings in 2014. Logano had 1 pole, 8 top-2 starts, and started in the top 10 in 26 of 36 races. He missed the final qualifying round in just five of the 36 races, a series better. Logano was consistently near the top of most major statistical categories in 2014, including; laps led, average start, average finish, and average driver rating. He was one of only seven drivers to win multiple races in 2014 (the others are Keselowski, Jimmie Johnson, Jeff Gordon, Dale Earnhardt, Jr., series champion Kevin Harvick and Carl Edwards).

2015: 6 wins
Logano's season began with an incident with Kevin Harvick during Sprint Unlimited. Harvick, who disputed a late-race incident with Logano, exchanged heated words with Logano.

The following week Logano held off Harvick to win the Daytona 500. Logano also became the second-youngest winner of the Daytona 500 (behind Trevor Bayne) and also gave team owner Roger Penske his second career victory, his first finish with Ryan Newmanin 2008. following week he took the pole at Atlanta Motor Speedway and finished in 4th place.

At Las Vegas Motor Speedway he qualified 2nd and led early, but would eventually fade to finish 10th after 2 speeding penalties. At Phoenix International Raceway he started on the front row for the third week in a row and led the laps early, though he would ultimately finish eighth.

At Auto Club Speedway, Logano started 13th and ran in the Top 5 for most of the day, but a controversial late-race pit road violation put him back in the field and he quickly recovered, however, finishing seventh. With his lead lap finish at the Auto Club Logano he broke the record for most consecutive lead lap finishes with 22 (he would extend the record to 24 races). The previous record was held by Jeff Gordon and Dale Earnhardt Jr. with 21 each.

The following week at Martinsville he earned his second pole of the season, and during the race, he led the 2nd most laps and would go on to finish third. At Texas, he started sixth, led 19 laps and finished fourth.

At Bristol, Logano and Keselowski were shipwrecked early, ending Logano's streak of finishes on the lead lap. At Richmond, Logano won the pole and finished in fifth place. At Talladega, Logano got caught up in a multi-car accident on the backstretch on lap 47 and finished 33rd. He dropped from 2nd to 4th in points after the race. In Kansas, Logano did much better. He won pole for the fourth time and once again finished fifth.

In August, Logano ran out of fuel while leading the closing laps at Pocono. At Watkins Glen, Logano started 16th and won the race, leading only the final lap after Harvick ran out of fuel before going into the final two turns. For Logano, the victory also marked a complete sweep of the weekend, as he also won the Xfinity race.

At Michigan, Logano posted a seventh-place finish in the Pure Michigan 400. At Bristol, he earned his third win of the year with a victory in the Irwin Tools night race. In the Chase, he swept the Contender Round races by dominating Charlotte, passing Matt Kenseth for deliberately putting him 5 laps from the end to win at Kansas and a dramatic win at Talladega that knocked Dale Earnhardt Jr. out of the Chase by 1 position. Also in the process, he became only the second driver in 2015 after Kyle Busch to sweep three straight races.

The following week at Martinsville, Logano had the dominant car for most of the race. However, Matt Kenseth, in retaliation for Logano, deliberately spun him a couple of weeks earlier, deliberately crashed Logano with less than 50 laps to go; an action that was met with mixed emotions from the drivers, but the fans erupted in applause. Kenseth was suspended for the next 2 races and placed on probation until December 31st.

Logano didn't do well at Texas, cutting a tire and spinning, and damaging the radio chords, finishing 40th. Arriving in Phoenix, Logano needed a win to advance to the final round. Ultimately, he was denied, as he finished third and was eliminated from the Chase at Phoenix International Raceway after a controversial finish where Dale Earnhardt Jr. won the race thanks to a storm in the area. Logano went on to finish fourth at the season finale, and finished sixth in the final point standings. Logano went on to finish fourth in the season finale, and finished sixth in the final standings.

2016: Second Championship 4
In 2016, Logano got off to a rocky start compared to 2015. Logano won his third consecutive pole at Martinsville, however, he would battle through the entire race before finishing 11th. At Kansas and Talladega, Logano returned with the DNFs from the crashes. Logano won his first Sprint Cup All-Star race after passing Kyle Larson with two laps to go. He won the Firekeepers Casino 400 from the pole in June 2016, the second time he's won from the pole at Michigan. This was followed by a third place finish at Sonoma and fourth place at Daytona International Speedway.

At Kentucky, Logano had an early start on lap 54 after cutting a right front tire, finishing 39th. Logano bounced back with a third-place finish at New Hampshire and a seventh-place finish at Indianapolis.

At Pocono, while on lap 115, Logano was racing Ryan Newman on his outside and Denny Hamlin on his inside when Chase Elliott got inside, got loose, got into Logano and sent them into the wall. Logano finished 37th. Following this, Logano went on a seven-race stretch with a worst-ever 11th-place finish: 2nd at Watkins Glen, 10th at Bristol and Michigan, 5th at Darlington, 10th at Richmond, 2nd at Chicagoland, 11th in New Hampshire and 5th place in Dover.

At Charlotte, the opening race in the Round of 12, Logano's day ended early with a series of tire blowouts, leaving him with a 36th-place finish. This was followed by a third place finish at Kansas. At Talladega, Logano was penalized early when his car left the pit lane dragging the cat during the first round of green-flag pit stops, but he later won the race in overtime and secured a spot in Round of 8. The win marked the third straight restrictor plate win for Team Penske, after Keselowski's previous victories at Talladega and Daytona. A win at Phoenix guaranteed Logano a spot in the Championship 4 at Homestead.

Logano led 45 laps at Homestead and had a great chance to win his first Cup Series championship. With 10 laps remaining, Logano moved under leader Carl Edwards and destroyed Edwards on the restart. After a 30-minute red flag, Logano's car was too damaged to continue fighting and Logano finished the race in 4th place, finishing second in the standings to Jimmie Johnson.

2017: Season failure
Unlike in recent years, Logano had a miserable year. He did start the year though by winning the Advance Auto Parts Clash after slipping through the last lap incident between Brad Keselowski and Denny Hamlin. Logano's 2017 season began with a sixth-place finish at the 2017 Daytona 500. At the Kobalt 400 in Las Vegas, Logano collided with Kyle Busch as the two battled for a top-five finish lap. The contact spun Busch into pit lane; Logano finished fourth, while Busch dropped to 22nd. After the race, Busch confronted Logano on pit road, pushing him while their pit crews got involved. Busch suffered a bloody forehead in the ensuing fight, although neither driver was penalized for the fight. In an ironic twist in the following week's race at Phoenix, Logano's tire blew out with five laps to go to draw caution as Busch was in contention for the win. As a result, Ryan Newman sat out for the final restart and went on to win.

At Richmond, Logano made his 300th Cup start. Despite qualifying fifth, he would start from 37th due to a transmission change. Logano would slowly work his way to the front, before winning his second race at Richmond. Logano became the sixth driver to win in his 300th start. However, Logano's car was found to have a rear suspension problem, forcing NASCAR to declare his victory a "taxed" victory; as a result, although his win was not eliminated, it did not allow him to secure a playoff spot.

At Kansas on May 13, Logano had a tough race that saw him drop from second early to midway through the pack. Logano battled through setbacks such as a speeding penalty and a cut tire that caused him to stay middle for the rest of his career. Logano was charging into the top ten when the brakes on his car broke, causing him to hit Danica Patrick and cause a fiery accident. The accident led to Aric Almirola being injured and airlifted to a local hospital for evaluation of him. Logano was visibly shaken after the accident in a post-race interview.

After a series of poor races, Logano missed the playoffs by one point, having finished second at Richmond. This marks the first time Logano has missed the playoffs since his final year with Joe Gibbs Racing in 2012. Because of his recorded win, Logano's shot at a championship ended with him finishing second. Ironically, the driver who benefited from Logano's misfortune was Matt Kenseth, who narrowly made the playoffs by a few points over Logano, thus keeping Logano out of the playoffs, reminiscent of their 2015-2016 feud.

2018: First Championship
Logano began the season with a second-place finish in the Clash. He left him fallow with a second place finish in his duel, losing to Ryan Blaney. He had an up and down Daytona 500 with a scuffed tire and a pit road penalty, but recovered to finish 4th after avoiding a crash with 2 laps remaining. After that, he took fifth at Auto Club, sixth at Martinsville and Texas, ninth at Bristol, fourth at Richmond, and held off Kurt Busch to win the GEICO 500 at Talladega. He had a very good race at Darlington Raceway but finished second behind only teammate Brad Kesewloski.

In the beginning of the Playoffs of the series in Las Vegas, he was in the top 3 all the race but his final result was fourth place. At Richmond he had a very lackluster race finishing 14th. At the Charlotte Roval, he had a 10th place finish in this race. Joey struggled the entire race with the balance of his car. In the Dover International Speedway race he finished in a solid third place. At Talladega Superspeedway he finished fifth. For the Kansas race he took pole and led the most laps but finished seventh. In Round of 8 Logano got his first win at Marnstiville after leading 309 laps and beating Martin Truex Jr. on the final lap. At Texas Motor Speedway he had a very solid third place behind only Ryan Blaney and Kevin Harvick the latter two with irregularities in his cars. At the reconfigured ISM Raceway he had a flat tire which caused him to hit the wall on stage two.

Already in the Championship 4 in Homestead Miami, Logano dominated the practices but classified in the fifth position already in the race Logano finished in fourth place the first stage and in third place in the second stage and in the final stage logano was located in fourth position with 19 laps to go when the yellow flag came down as Kesewloski collided with Daniel Suárez, all championship contenders entered the pits, Logano entering fourth and exiting third at the restart, Championship 4 drivers were 1-2-3-4 Busch in the first, Truex Jr in the second, Logano third and Harvick fourth. On the restart Truex Jr passed Busch, Logano also passed Busch at Turn 4 with 12 laps to go Logano passed Truex Jr through the middle of the track and from there opened up a 1.7 second lead to win at Homestead his 21st career and his first Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series championship.

2019: Title defense
Logano started the season with a rain-delayed third-place finish in the Clash, in the duel, he made a big move on Clint Bowyer, who led 41 laps in the final lap and won the duel leading just one lap, the last. He started fourth at Daytona, beginning the season as a strong championship contender. Logano battled back and forth for the win all day, like avoiding "The Big One" that took out 21 other drivers, but fell short to finish 1-2-3 with the Joe Gibbs Racing team. After the race, Logano had confronted his Ford teammate, Michael McDowell, for not giving Logano the push he needed for victory. He left Daytona second in points, tied for the points lead with Denny Hamlin. In qualifying at Atlanta, he struggled on his qualifying laps and started 27th. The problems continued during the race. Although he fought for the victory late, he suffered tire problems to finish 23rd.

Logano bounced back at Las Vegas, holding off teammate Brad Keselowski for his first win at the track. The win at Las Vegas was fitting, as it would be Logano's 22nd spring race at Las Vegas, his 22nd Cup win, and he won in a Pennzoil-sponsored No. 22 car. Logano followed up his win with a 10th-place finish at Phoenix and a second-place finish at Fontana.

At Martinsville, Logano scored his fifth pole in seventh races, making it the 10th straight season he's won a pole. It was difficult at the beginning of the race. He led the first five laps and did not lead the race again. He started 1st and finished 19th. It wasn't the result the 22 team wanted. Then, at Texas, he won Stage 1, but problems in the pit lane caused him to drop positions and finish 17th. At Bristol, he had a car capable of winning, but he pitted late in the race and restarted a few places from where he finished. He ultimately finished third behind the Busch brothers of Kyle and Kurt. At the end of the day at Richmond, having won Stage 2 and finished second in Stage 1, Logano had the better car and was chasing Martin Truex Jr. Unfortunately, he didn't have enough time to pass Truex and finished second. At Talladega, he made another good qualifying. He started fifth and led on lap 182. He led on the restart but was no match for the Chevrolet Camaros pack of Chase Elliott, Bowman and rookie Ryan Preece and finished fourth.

Logano then qualified fourth at Dover. He won Stage 1 ahead of teammate Keselowski. He finished seventh, extending his Top 10 stretch to four. In the standings, however, he is second, five points behind leader Kyle Busch after slowing him down from Richmond. Logano qualified 20th at Kansas, but failed pre-race inspection, so he started 30th. Through the first 10 laps, Logano had already gained about 10 places. He finished 10th in the first stage and finished 15th, 1 lap down, however Kyle Busch, the points leader after Dover, finished 30th and as a result Logano took the points lead.

With his two wins, Logano made his way to the playoffs.

At the Charlotte Roval, he overcame a collision with a tire barrier to finish 10th and advance to the Round of 16.

At Dover, Logano was forced to head to the garage before the opening laps to repair a broken rear axle. He came back into the race 24 laps down and was criticized by Denny Hamlin for racing hard with the leading cars.

At Martinsville, Hamlin collided with Logano in turn four, pressing Logano into the outside wall and causing him to lose a tire and skid. two laps later. Despite the damage, Logano finished eighth. After the race, Logano and Hamlin had a discussion about the incident before Logano slapped Hamlin on the right shoulder, sparking a fight between the two.

NASCAR suspended Dave Nichols Jr., the No. 22 team's tire technician, for one race for throwing Hamlin to the ground during the altercation. Logano's title defense ended after he was eliminated in the round of 16 despite finishing ninth in Phoenix, with Hamlin and eventual champion Kyle Busch eventually beat him for the remaining Championship 4 spots by winning the race and finishing second respectively. At Homestead, Logano finished fifth in the race and in the final points standings, the highest in points among non-Championship 4 drivers. Logano also raced to the finish in every race in 2019, joining Ty Dillon as the only two to accomplish the feat.

2020: Return to the Championship 4
With Paul Wolfe replacing Todd Gordon as his crew chief, Logano kicked off the 2020 season by winning Duel 1 of the Bluegreen Vacations Duels he finished 26th at the Daytona 500 due to a collision with Ross Chastain. A week later, he bounced back with a win at Las Vegas Logano would later find himself in victory lane at Phoenix. At Bristol, Logano held the lead in a battle with Chase Elliott in the closing laps until both competitors hit the wall, leaving Logano's teammate Brad Keselowski to win the race while Logano finished 21st.

Logano's two wins earned him a spot in the 2020 Playoffs. He locked himself into the Championship 4 after beating Kevin Harvick at 2020 Hollywood Casino 400|Kansas]].

In the Championship race at Phoenix Raceway, he ran in front throughout stage 1. A vibration and late pit strategy led to him finishing third in the race and third in championship 4.

2021
On the final lap of the 2021 Daytona 500, Logano led teammate Keselowski before he attempted to pass Logano on a boost from Michael McDowell, which resulted in an accident. While McDowell avoided the crash to win, Logano finished 12th.

At the Daytona Road Course, he had a second place. In Las Vegas he had a top 10, in Phoenix he achieved a second place after leading most of the race. At Atlanta he dropped out of the top 10. Joey Logano won the Food City Dirt Race on the dirt at Bristol for the first time in over 50 years.

While running third at the end of Stage 1 during the GEICO 500, Logano was turned by Hamlin and clipped in the left-rear by Stenhouse Jr., sending his car into a blow over and Logano went upside down before his car rolled back over. He 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.

Logano got into the playoffs with his Bristol win. He made it all the way to the Round of 8 before being eliminated after Martinsville. He finished the season 8th in the points standings.

Personal life
Born in Middletown, Connecticut and raised on the in Portland, Logano moved to Georgia where his father, Tom, grew his career as a pilot. When he started his career, he earned the nickname "Sliced ​​Bread" because he won a lot when he was a young runner. On November 13, 2013, Logano announced his engagement to childhood sweetheart, Brittany Baca. He announced, via, that their wedding date was set for December 2014, during NASCAR's off-season. Logano and Baca were married on December 13, 2014. The couple announced the birth of their first child. a son named Hudson Joseph Logano, in January 2018. His second child, a son named Jameson Jett Logano, was born on May 7, 2020.

In September 2019, Logano was diagnosed with, an autoimmune disorder that attacks hair follicles. While the disease doesn't cause any health risks or physical effects, it does lead to patches of thinning hair or baldness, which Logano has often joked about.

Philanthropy
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.

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