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Why Does NASCAR Driver Joey Logano Still Live At Home ?
Joey Logano might be a professional race car driver, one about to embark on his rookie season in the Sprint Cup Series – the crème de la crème of American auto racing.
But he still lives at home.
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"Why would he leave?" joked his dad, Tom Logano. "Somebody cooks, cleans, does the laundry. He has no curfew. Of course, he still lives at home."
His living situation won’t be the only thing that differentiates him from the other drivers. At 18, Logano will be the youngest competitor in the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series next year when he takes over the wheel of the No. 20 Home Depot car for Joe Gibbs Racing, and he wasn’t even born when many of his competitors were already competing in stock car’s top series.
"Racing with guys who are older than me is not new, but racing at this competition level is new," Logano said. "It’s hard to get prepared for something of this caliber, but everyone’s got to deal with it. It’s gonna be a learning curve as we go into this series, I think."
Maybe, maybe not. Logano needed just three races in the NASCAR Nationwide Series to earn his first win. And Mark Martin thinks you’ll see more of the same next year in the Sprint Cup Series.
"He’ll be ready," Martin said. "This kid is talented."
Martin was the first one to voice that opinion, singling him out three years ago, when Logano was an unknown late-model driver.
"I am high on Joey Logano because I am absolutely, 100-percent positive, without a doubt that he can be one of the greatest that ever raced in NASCAR," Martin said at the time. That single sound bite might have changed Logano’s life. At the time, his father wasn’t sure it was all for the best.
"I called Mark the next day and said ‘What are you doing? You’re really putting the pressure on that kid’," Tom Logano said.
But Joey Logano didn’t see it that way. In fact, he didn’t think much of it at all.
"I just went with the flow," Logano said. "Looking back, it was a huge, huge deal, but I didn’t see that at the time. I was just a stupid kid."
Now he’s a much more mature 18-year-old with a sweet ride. And a bedroom at mom and dad’s.
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