| Tony Stewart
Posted: 8/14/2008 3:24:53 PM | Really? Where did you people get this information??
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| Tony Stewart
Posted: 8/24/2008 7:15:20 AM | Todays Hot TOny Topic is ....
Goodbye Tony Stewart. Hello Joey Logano.
Logano will take the wheel next season of the No. 20 Toyota Camry NASCAR Sprint Cup Series race car currently driven by Tony Stewart, the Bristol Herald Courier has learned.
Logano’s move – rumored and dissected for months – was confirmed Saturday evening at Bristol Motor Speedway prior to the start of the NSCS Sharpie 500 by a high-ranking official affiliated with one of NASCAR’s premier motorsports manufacturing teams.
“Joey Logano … next year is going to be the [No.] 20 car,” said the Toyota official, who did not want to be named because a Monday announcement is expected by Joe Gibbs Racing.
Stewart, a two-time NASCAR Cup champion, announced earlier this season that he would leave Toyota after the 2008 campaign.
Meanwhile, Logano, an 18-year-old native of Middletown, Conn., is viewed by many as NASCAR’S next big star. His talent has been praised by NASCAR’s top drivers, including Jeff Burton, winner of the NSCS Food City 500 in March at Bristol Motor Speedway.
“I’d put [Logano] in it in a heartbeat,” Burton said on Friday during a BMS press conference when asked if he would place Logano in an open driver’s seat if he owned a NASCAR Cup team.
“It’s common now to take a kid you think has talent and put him in it. If I were the Gibbs group and that seat were available, that would be my candidate. I’d put him in there and I’d put my arm around him and say, ‘We’re with you.’ ”
Logano made his Nationwide Series debut on May 31 in the Helluva Good! 200 at Dover International Speedway in Delaware, finishing in sixth place.
Logano then won his first Nationwide race two starts later on June 14, taking the checker in the Meijer 300 at Kentucky Speedway. The victory made Logano, who had just turned 18, the youngest-ever driver to win a Nationwide Series event.
However, Logano, in a recent phone interview with the Herald Courier, downplayed the possibility of taking over for Stewart.
“I think it’s not even up to me,” Logano said. “That’s [up to] Joe and J.D. [Gibbs], when and if I move up. So I’m focusing on what I can achieve right now, and that’s my [No.] 20 Nationwide car … .”
Asked specifically if he would be interested in Stewart’s No. 20 car if offered, Logano was more direct.
“If they made an offer to me, yeah. I’d be game-up for it. Why not? Why would you say ‘no’ to that race car?” Logano said.
The news of Logano’s ascension to the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series follows a week of bad news for Toyota.
Logano and Stewart this week were penalized 150 Nationwide Series championship points and put on probation through the remainder of this year by NASCAR. The punishment was part of a penalty dealt out by NASCAR against Joe Gibbs Racing, following an attempt to distort engine power and disguise horsepower following a Nationwide Series race Aug. 16 at Michigan International Speedway. | |
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| Tony Stewart
Posted: 8/24/2008 7:47:27 AM | | How do you replace Stewart with a wet-behind-the-ears 18 year old? Is Home Depot going to continue with the #20,or will it be CapNCrunch or perhaps Nerf or Plah Doh? | |
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| Tony Stewart
Posted: 8/24/2008 11:06:27 AM | Probably Cocoa Puffs! Cause he is Cuckoo for cocoa puffs!!!!   | |
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| Tony Stewart
Posted: 8/24/2008 1:44:49 PM | Just my opinion but I don't think Home Depot will be sponsoring much longer, Business is going down down down.................Maybe Disney will sponsor lil Joey | |
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| Tony Stewart
Posted: 8/25/2008 2:19:12 PM | Joe Gibbs Racing has selected 18-year-old Joe Logano to replace Tony Stewart in the No. 20 Sprint Cup Toyota next season.
Logano was introduced Monday at the team's race shop, less than two months after he made his debut in the Nationwide Series.
Home Depot will remain the primary sponsor of the car, and Greg Zipadelli will continue as crew chief.
Logano became the youngest winner on NASCAR's second-tier series in June. While he's considered by many to be NASCAR's next big star, Logano has never driven in a Sprint Cup race.
Logano will take over for Stewart after he leaves JGR at the end of the season to co-own and drive for the team now known as Haas-CNC
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| Tony Stewart
Posted: 8/31/2008 12:52:59 PM | Has anybody read the article in Rolling Stone on Smoke...................if not it's a must
Where There's Smoke...
NASCAR superstar Tony Stewart brawls, cusses, eats way too many doughnuts and (usually) drives a race car better than anyone on earth. How did a potbellied prima donna become the soul of auto racing? | |
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| Tony Stewart
Posted: 10/7/2008 3:39:46 AM | [quote= MagEMaeI] How do you replace Stewart with a wet-behind-the-ears 18 year old? Is Home Depot going to continue with the #20,or will it be CapNCrunch or perhaps Nerf or Plah Doh?
Nerf? A Nerf car would be freaking awesome. That would reduce injuries on the track for sure. | |
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| Tony Stewart
Posted: 10/7/2008 4:58:31 AM | Get Goodyear to replace the tires with OREOs and Pizz Hut could cover the car in pan pizza for extra protection.
Sooooo,Stewart FINALLY wins a race after all the good drivers are taken out?
hmmmmm......maybe that strategy will work for Jeffy next weeke | |
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| Tony Stewart
Posted: 10/7/2008 6:20:37 PM | | Why did Stewart win instead of Regan Smith ??? Simple.....Nascar is like the WWF and the rules are made up as you go. Notice Smith was not the only one who thought the last lap was a winner take all approach. If they would have be Jr. they would have let him win since that would keep Nascar on the radar screen during the fall where the NFL rules on Sunday. It is these type of antics that is making Nascar look like Monster Trucks, and Roller Derby !!! | |
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