Joey Logano

Here is a message from Joey Prusak:

I am extremely proud to announce that in 2014 I will be teaming up with NASCAR Sprint Cup Series driver Joey Logano and his foundation.

I just wanted to take the time to explain how this all came about. Many of you have already read my blog post about my trip down in Daytona, for those of you who haven’t here is the post:

“February 21st - Today was by far the best day of the entire trip... I headed to the track with my brother to do an interview with Claire B Lang on NASCAR's SiriusXM Radio show. When I went in to do the interview I was sitting in a little room with Claire and Max, she told us, "wait right here and I'll be right back." I looked at Max and shrugged, little did I know she wouldn't be coming back alone. The door swung open and it wasn't Claire standing in the doorway, it was my favorite driver, Joey Logano. Now I am normally not one to get star struck and freeze up... but Joey is someone who I have been a fan of since I was like 10... 10 years now I have been cheering for him. So of course he walks in and I freeze. I don't say a word... I just stare. Pretty soon I snap out of it and realize that Joey and Claire are speaking to me and attempting to do the interview. I'm guessing it sounded pretty bad when I had no response to their questions. Claire gave me the opportunity to ask Joey a couple questions, I asked him if he wanted to come driver my car and I also asked him about getting sponsors. He basically just told me you must be yourself and you must win races. After the interview was done Joey snuck my brother and I into the garage area. AMAZING... He then asked us if we wanted to go in and check out the team hauler. It was so big and so nice. As Claire said in the interview Joey Logano is one of the nicest drivers in NASCAR and after what he did for me I would 100% agree with that. I even think my brother, who is a Jimmie Johnson fan, would agree with that. Thank you Joey Logano.”

The story doesn’t stop there though, I refrained from sharing some other information because I wasn’t sure if it was going to pan out. After I got home that night from DIS I tweeted  Joey Logano…

I have to talk @joeylogano into letting me run a @JoeyLoganoFDN decal on the hood this season... You okay with that? pic.twitter.com/zryc6BL6uP

— joey prusak (@JoeyPrusak) February 22, 2014

I didn’t actually expect to get a response out of him because the Daytona 500 was in like 2 days, and I was pretty sure he was busy. I was wrong though; this was another key reason on why Joey Logano is one of the nicest drivers in ALL of NASCAR. I woke up Saturday morning to find that I had received a direct message on Twitter from Joey. 

It read, “Hey seen your message. Car looks nice, want to work out a little deal to put a sticker on your car??”

That was the message I was reading from my favorite driver… just imagine my reaction. 

I sent him a message back and soon enough I was in contact with Joey’s PR Rep, Jeremy Troiano, who then sent my info out to the foundation manager. A month passed and I figured I had been forgotten about. 

Come on, Joey Logano is going to take the time to have his foundation sponsor me. He probably forgot all about me by now. Well, guess what? I was wrong again. Joey proved to me again why he is and always will be my favorite driver. The sponsorship was official, I am officially sponsored by the Joey Logano Foundation, and I am officially sponsored by my favorite driver, Joey Logano. 

Ever since I saw Joey race in 2007 I always had the goal of eventually meeting him. I never expected for it to happen the way I did. Joey took the time out of his day at Daytona International Speedway to come surprise one of his fans. Now he has even taken it a step further in having the Joey Logano Foundation sponsor me in 2014. So if you do ever read this Joey, thank you. You have no idea how much this opportunity means to me.

Signing off – JP

Follow me on Twitter @JoeyPrusak

If you would like to learn more about the Joey Logano Foundation check out their website by going to http://foundation.joeylogano.com


Check them out on Twitter:
Joey Logano - @JoeyLogano
Joey Logano Foundation - @JoeyLoganoFDN

Joey Logano Foundation Big 8 Late Model driven by Joey Prusak