What Makes Logano a Saturday Superstar? By David Smith (on Twitter at @DavidSmithMA) Sundays, for all intents and purposes, are when the big checks are earned in NASCAR. It is the day when 43 of the world’s best drivers toggle the ignition switch for a NASCAR Sprint Cup Series race. The greats are made on the seventh day. There is something about Sundays that Joey Logano just does not like. Whether it is the pressure, the high degree of competition, the heavier horsepower or the 500-mile races is unknown. But the proof is in the pudding: Logano, who won his eighth NASCAR Nationwide Series race of the 2012 season Friday night at Charlotte Motor Speedway, is a juggernaut and a significantly different racecar driver when not competing in the Cup Series. Logano has won 17 races in 106 career Nationwide Series starts. At age 22, he ranks 16th on the list of all time winners ... Read More _____ To continue reading this article, you must be a premium subscriber to MotorsportsAnalytics.com. _____ MotorsportsAnalytics.com is a subscription-based web site that brings advanced statistical concepts created for evaluating drivers and teams to the every day race fan. The web site has been featured in USA Today and Sports Business Daily and on SiriusXM Satellite Radio’s NASCAR Channel. _____ David Smith is the Editor-in-Chief of Motorsports Analytics and the host of The David Smith Podcast. Follow him on Twitter at @DavidSmithMA. |