So I have discovered after this week that when I ask, I get answered! I can’t even get my man to do that. So let’s start off tonight with another debatable question. This one won’t be as controversial…I promise, but you never know what trick’s come out of my hat. I’ve been blogging full force lately and with all the free time between house work and working out this weekend there’s still a lot of writing left in me.
I started to write this article at work, mainly because 97% of my office is leaving for an out-of-state conferance for a week and working in the education field and all the little kiddies going on Summer Vacation, I will have a lot of time to think. Woah! This is going to hurt!
There was an article on NASCAR.com that posed the question:
In just three races, Logano has earned two pole positions and got his first career victory last weekend at Kentucky Speedway. But it was the seventh time this season that the No. 20 Toyota of Joe Gibbs Racing has gone to Victory Lane, using four different drivers. With the quick success of Logano and the continued stronghold of the JGR outfit, it naturally brings forth the question: Is Logano’s success credited to the driver, or is it the equipment?
I believe it’s a little bit of both. True, there has been many successes in the Nationwide Series with the #20 car, but look who was driving the car…the first weeks of the season it was Stewart, then it was Kyle Busch and Denny Hamlin. These guy’s arn’t exactly the worst driver’s in NASCAR. (I said worst drivers, not worst personalities.) And I’m not talking partial because Tony Stewart is my future baby’s daddy.
From another perspective, Joey Logano has won more races before coming into the Nationwide Series then I can count with my fingers and toes…which takes a lot of skill for me! He is…and will be a great driver as long as the media hype around him dosn’t go to his head, if that’s the case we might have another very cocky Kyle Busch on our hands. Lord knows, we only need one Kyle Busch in the world.
Let’s not take anything away from the crew cheif, Dave Rogers. From what the article described, he is great at setting up a great car for whomever is driving in it.
All of these are determining factors in being succesful and winning races. It just can’t be one or another. Perfect Example: Dale Jr’s win last week, the fuel saving stretegy was Tony Eury Jr’s and the strategy was executed by Dale Jr. Another great example: Jimmie Johnson’s success last season vs. this years season.
I have still yet to figure out what factor Tony Stewart is missing because I am peeing in my pants with anticipation, waiting for him to win a race. You can only imagine how my bladder felt last week when he finished 5th and before that, when he was in the lead on the last lap of the race and his tire went down. I can only imagine how Jimmie Johnson fans feel.
Only time will really tell how succesful Joey Logano will be, the media tends to over hype many things, but this time, they might have gotten it right.
