NSCS Recap: Fountain of Youth as Logano Wins Rain-Shortened Race to Become Youngest Cup Victory
Joey Logano, driver of the No. 20 Home Depot Toyota and a New England native from Middletown, Conn., celebrates with a local delicacy, a lobster, on Sunday after winning the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series LENOX Industrial Tools 301 at New Hampshire Motor Speedway in Loudon, N.H. (Photo Credit: CIA Stock Photo)
LOUDON, N. H. — Sometimes, the sun shines even though it’s raining.
Ask young Joey Logano. A late-race rainstorm stopped the LENOX Industrial Tools 301 after 273 of the scheduled 301 laps, giving Logano his first NASCAR Sprint Cup Series victory.
The 19-year-old rookie, who turned 19 on May 24, was probably the only happy driver when NASCAR announced the race official, but veterans of the sport would quickly tell the youngster to enjoy his win because “there’s no telling how long it might be before he wins another one.”
Crew chief Greg Zipadelli, Logano’s mentor and crew chief on the No. 20 Home Depot Toyota, a veteran of this sport’s tremendous emotional peaks and valleys, probably told his rosy-cheeked driver, “You take em any way you can get ’em, kid.”
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