Homestead, FL — November 22, 2009

RAYBESTOS® ROOKIE CONTENDER QUOTES FOR THE FORD 400 NASCAR SPRINT CUP SERIES RACE AT HOMESTEAD-MIAMI SPEEDWAY, NOVEMBER 22, 2009
 
JOEY LOGANO IN THE No. 20 THE HOME DEPOT TOYOTA CLINCHED RAYBESTOS ROOKIE OF THE YEAR IN TONIGHT’S RACE AT HOMESTEAD

Logano scored a 24th-place finish and was the top rookie in tonight’s Ford 400.  He claimed Raybestos Rookie of the Race honors 26 times in 36 races this season.
 
Logano scored his first NASCAR Sprint Cup Series victory in at New Hampshire Motor Speedway (race No. 17).  He finished the season with one win, three top-fives and seven top-10 finishes.
 
DID YOU KNOW? At 19 years of age, Logano is the youngest driver to win Raybestos Rookie of the Year in the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series.  
 
Logano and the No. 20 team use the Raybestos Sprint Cup braking system.  The ultra-lightweight aluminum alloy six-piston calipers are the stiffest and lightest calipers available in all of NASCAR.
 
DID YOU KNOW?  The year-end payout for 2009 Raybestos Rookie of the Year in the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series is $75,000, the same amount Darrell Waltrip earned from R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company for his 1982 Cup series championship.  Logano will earn a grand total of $114,500 from Raybestos brand Brakes for his efforts in the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series this season.
 
Logano is the THIRD driver from Joe Gibbs Racing to win Raybestos Rookie of the Year, joining Tony Stewart (1999) and Denny Hamlin (2006). 
 
JOEY LOGANO, No. 20 THE HOME DEPOT TOYOTA:  TODAY MIGHT HAVE BEEN THE HARDEST DAY’S WORK YOU’VE DONE ALL YEAR.  “We got up to 13th and realistically that’s about where we should have been, you know, if we didn’t qualify so bad.  Somehow the end plate on the wing got knocked off somehow, during a pit stop or what happened but had to come in and lost track position.  And if you look at it, I mean, everyone ran the same lap times all night, you know.  It’s hard to pass people.  You can get a couple on the start but if you can’t get on the start you’re just junk and that’s where you run the whole run.  It’s hard to make up spots on the racetrack ‘cause everyone ran the same speed.”  YOU OFICIALLY CLINCHED RAYBESTOS ROOKIE OF THE YEAR TONIGHT.  “All right, cool.  That’s cool.  That was one of our big goals this year.  It’s pretty neat to win Raybestos Rookie of the Year.  I appreciate that.”       
 
SELECTED LOGANO PRESS CONFERENCE
 
“It’s really cool to get the Raybestos Rookie of the Year.  It’s obviously one of our big goals.  I’ve got to thank The Home Depot for sticking behind me throughout the year.  We had a real rough start and finished 20th in the points, I guess is okay. In the beginning of the season if you had told me that’s where we were going to finish I’d have been ecstatic about it but now you always want better.  It seemed like tonight we weren’t real good.  We started plugging away to the front, we got to about 13th and the car wasn’t that bad and on our pit stop somehow the end plate on the wing got hit and knocked off.  Had to come back in and replace that and go back out back in the pack and try to plug along.  It was tough, after about five or six laps most everyone ran about the same lap times so it was hard to make your way back to the front.  But we did what we had to do tonight.  I just want to thank all my guys for sticking with me through the year.”  YOU GOT OFF TO A LITTLE BIT OF A ROCKY START AT THE BEGINNING OF THE SEASON. “It was tough at times believe me. You know the media wasn’t saying the greatest things but if anything it’s more motivating.  You really want to keep pushing it and become a better race car driver.  I was getting a little self confidence out of Nationwide car which was helping me there and just kept pushing it and trying to learn these race cars as much as I can.  By no means I’m not there yet but I feel like we made big steps.  The second part is figure out how you want them to drive, what part of the corner you want to work on, you know, what do you need to make these things go fast.  Hopefully through the offseason here we can test a little bit and get some more seat time in these things and come better next year.”  FIVE YEARS AGO AT MARK MARTIN’S FIRST RETIREMENT LUNCH AT HIS SHOP, HE SAID THAT HE WOULD HIRE YOU TOMORROW TO RACE A CUP CAR.  DID YOU THINK BACK THEN THAT YOU’D BE SITTING HERE AS RAYBESTOS ROOKIE OF THE YEAR?  “No, I don’t look that far ahead.  I think that’s kind of the big deal.  I’ve always been a day by day person and always worry about the next thing as it comes.  I’ve never been the person to look two races ahead.  It’s always the next one.  At the time I thought that was awesome.  To be honest that’s something that got me to this point if it wasn’t for him saying stuff like that to get me a ride like this.  It was a real big deal in my career.”  
 
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