Inside the Helmet: Joey Logano

This week we go Inside The Helmet with Sprint Cup driver Joey Logano. Cory McCartney: You drive with the GameStop logo on the hood in the Nationwide Series.
Inside the Helmet: Joey Logano
Inside the Helmet: Joey Logano /

This week we go Inside The Helmet with Sprint Cup driver Joey Logano.

Cory McCartney: You drive with the GameStop logo on the hood in the Nationwide Series. What games do you play?

Joey Logano: Mostly racing games. It's sports games, hockey and stuff like that, but it's mostly racing.

CM: What racing games?

JL: Right now I've been hooked on [Forza Motorsports], it all kind of depends on what's going on, I guess. But usually I'll get my friends and we'll race. It's racing all the time for me, that's my life.

CM: Tell me about the nickname "Sliced Bread."

JL: That was given to me by my friends as a joke. All my friends have funny nicknames and we all kind of joke around; we're just a bunch of goofball kids, pretty much. That one got out to the public and everybody knows about it. I'll take it, I've been called a lot worse.

CM: You were born in Connecticut, then you moved to Georgia when you were young. Are you a Red Sox fan, a Yankees fan or a Braves fan?

JL: Red Sox. I don't watch a lot of baseball, but that is my team of choice.

CM: Being that you pull from two different regions, do you call it "soda" or "Coke?"

JL: Soda.

CM: At 19, you're 32 years younger than Mark Martin. Have you ever caught him driving with his turning signal on?

JL: [Laughs] That's messed up. No, I haven't.

CM: You've had an opportunity to go through the circuit, if you had to pick, which track would you be?

JL: I think maybe Phoenix. No, Phoenix is kind of old though. I guess maybe a newer track with some speed. Vegas, maybe?

CM: I think the question that everybody wants to know is: Do you call 811 before you dig?

JL: Of course I do, all the time. "Know what's below. Safe digging is no accident."

CM: I know for Bristol you had Soulja Boy Tell 'Em's Crank Dat as your theme song. Can you do the dance?

JL: No, I can't. I can try. It would be pretty funny, but no, I can't do it. All my friends were trying to get me to do it at Bristol when they played the song. I was like 'No, I can't do it.' I was too embarrassed.

CM: Is that what's usually on your iPod or are you all over the place?

JL: I'm all over the place. I've got everything, stuff like [Soulja Boy] to oldies, like Billy Joel, country, a little bit of everything.


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