Joey Logano
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Two-time NASCAR Cup Series (NCS) Champion Joey Logano enters his 16th series season and his 12th year with Team Penske in 2024. As he returns behind the wheel of the No. 22 Shell-Pennzoil/Hunt Brothers Pizza/Autotrader/AAA Ford Mustang, Logano is one of two active drivers with multiple Cup Series championships on his resume and he has his sights set on winning his third series title this season.
Logano enters the 2024 campaign with 32 career NCS victories, which ranks 28th on the series' all-time wins list. He is also one of only four drivers in history to have won more than 25 races before the age of 30, putting him in elite company with NASCAR legends Richard Petty, Jeff Gordon and Kyle Busch.
Following his 2022 NCS championship season, Logano produced the 32nd win of his distinguished career in 2023 with his first-ever victory at Atlanta Motor Speedway in March. The win extended Logano's streak to 12 consecutive seasons with at least one Cup Series victory as he raced his way into the NCS Playoffs for the 10th time in 15 seasons. Logano produced 11 top-five finishes, 17 top-10 results and two pole awards while finishing 12th in the championship standings last season with the No. 22 Ford team, led by chief Paul Wolfe.
As part of NASCAR's 75th Anniversary season in 2023, 25 drivers were named to the sport's esteemed "Greatest Drivers" list throughout the spring. Logano's name was called on May 9 as he joined the ranks of NASCAR's all-time greats who all came together for a celebration at Darlington Raceway on the morning of the Goodyear 400. Logano was one of eight active, full-time drivers selected as one of NASCAR's 75 Greatest Drivers.
In 2022, Logano made his mark in the debut season of NASCAR's NexGen era. The Connecticut native won four races while compiling 11 top-five finishes, 17 top-10 results, four pole awards and 784 laps led en route to the Cup Series title in his third season paired with Wolfe. Logano's four race wins marked his most in a single season since 2015 - and he also won the inaugural Clash at the Coliseum non-points race in the much-anticipated debut for the NexGen car. In addition, Logano captured the inaugural Cup Series race at Gateway in June of 2022 before clinching his fifth career Championship 4 appearance with a win at Las Vegas Motor Speedway in the No. 22 Pennzoil Ford Mustang. Team Penske announced a multi-year extension of its agreement with Logano during the 2022 season, ensuring that the championship-level driver will be part of the team's racing lineup well into the future.
Prior to winning his second Cup Series title in 2022, Logano produced another solid NCS season in 2021. Logano, Wolfe and the No. 22 Ford team won the inaugural Bristol Dirt Race, as Logano earned a spot in the NASCAR Playoffs for the seventh time in eight seasons. The Shell-Pennzoil Ford team reached the Round of 8 before falling just short of a fifth appearance in the Championship 4 race. Logano finished eighth in the final series standings, posting a top-10 championship season for the eighth time in the last nine years.
Logano joined Team Penske in 2013 after producing a pair of victories in his first four NCS seasons while being identified as one of the sport's fastest rising stars. Since he took his place behind the wheel of the No. 22 Ford, Logano has earned 30 wins - including at least one victory for 11 consecutive seasons, won the Daytona 500 (2015), produced Team Penske's second and third Cup Series titles (2018, 2022) and earned a Playoff spot in nine of the last 10 years. Logano is also one of only four drivers with at least four Championship 4 appearances.
In his first season with the team in 2013, Logano earned one victory, two pole positions and 12 top-10 finishes. He enjoyed a breakout year in 2014, when he scored five wins, 16 top-five finishes, 22 top-10 results and led 993 laps of competition. Logano won a series-high six races in 2015, including the biggest event of the season - the Daytona 500. He went on to record five more victories, including an incredible sweep of the Playoff Round of 12 by winning at Charlotte, Kansas and Talladega. During the 2016 season, Logano won three races and made his second appearance in the Championship 4 at Homestead-Miami Speedway, as he finished second in the final Cup Series standings - his best-ever finish at that point of his career. Though he didn't advance to the Playoffs in 2017, Logano still produced a race victory at Richmond and 10 top-five finishes. The disappointment of not making the post-season fueled the fire for the No. 22 team's amazing run to the 2018 title. Behind three race victories, including a dramatic win in the season finale at Homestead-Miami Speedway, Logano secured his first Cup Series championship in 2018 and the second NCS crown for Team Penske.
Away from the racetrack, Logano and his wife Brittany were honored with the 2018 Comcast Community Champion of the Year award for their charitable efforts with the Joey Logano Foundation. Entering the 2024 season, the Foundation has raised over $5 million for organizations that provide second chances to kids and young adults in crisis. In addition to his work in the community, Logano also owns and operates Clutch Studios in Huntersville, NC, a state-of-the-art facility that the NASCAR industry continues to call home for partner production shoots and other commercial needs.
During the COVID-19 crisis in 2020, the Joey Logano Foundation partnered with Elevation Outreach on a $1 million disaster relief fund aimed at providing much needed supplies and meals to kids and young adults impacted by the global pandemic. Logano also partnered with a group to make an investment in Meriden, Conn., to repave and make other improvements to the Silver City Quarter Midget club facility, the track where Logano began his racing career.
Logano and Brittany have two young sons, Hudson and Jameson, and a daughter, Emilia.
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