{"id":13262,"date":"2026-01-15T10:50:20","date_gmt":"2026-01-15T10:50:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/racersandriders.com\/main\/?p=13262"},"modified":"2026-02-03T17:33:18","modified_gmt":"2026-02-03T17:33:18","slug":"joey-loganos-championship-drive-from-sliced-bread-nascar-legend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/racersandriders.com\/main\/joey-loganos-championship-drive-from-sliced-bread-nascar-legend\/","title":{"rendered":"Joey Logano\u2019s Championship Drive: From Sliced Bread to NASCAR Legend"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" data-src=\"https:\/\/racersandriders.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/joey-logano-nascar-shell-motorsports-1.jpg\" alt=\"joey-logano-nascar-shell-motorsports\" width=\"1200\" height=\"800\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-13255 lazyload\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/racersandriders.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/joey-logano-nascar-shell-motorsports-1.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/racersandriders.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/joey-logano-nascar-shell-motorsports-1-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/racersandriders.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/joey-logano-nascar-shell-motorsports-1-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/racersandriders.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/joey-logano-nascar-shell-motorsports-1-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/racersandriders.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/joey-logano-nascar-shell-motorsports-1-600x400.jpg 600w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 1200px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 1200\/800;\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Across 18 NASCAR seasons, Joey Logano has competed in 600+ races and completed 168,000+ laps while amassing 37 wins, 30+ poles, and three Cup Series championships (2018, 2022, 2024), with his greatest success coming after joining Team Penske in 2013. Dubbed &#8220;Sliced Bread&#8221; early on, his career exemplifies unmatched consistency, even as his 2025 playoff push fell just short with finishes of 6th in Vegas, 16th at Talladega, 8th at Martinsville, and 4th at Phoenix. Check out the footage below to see some of that relentless drive.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Get the Racers &#038; Riders newsletter for weekly NASCAR, F1, IndyCar &#038; IMSA updates, automotive news, car events &#038; features. Join here: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.racersandriders.com\/newsletter\">racersandriders.com\/newsletter<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3>WATCH: <\/h3>\n<p><iframe title=\"Joey Logano\u2019s Championship Drive: From Sliced Bread to NASCAR Legend\" width=\"1060\" height=\"596\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/dBMYo-JavaA?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" class=\"lazyload\" data-load-mode=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dubbed &#8220;Sliced Bread&#8221; early on, Joey Logano&#8217;s career exemplifies unmatched consistency, even as his 2025 playoff push fell just short .<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":13255,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"cybocfi_hide_featured_image":"yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[1,208,209],"tags":[234,201,274,273],"class_list":["post-13262","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog","category-motorsports","category-nascar","tag-joey-logano","tag-motorsports","tag-shell-motorsports","tag-team-penske"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/racersandriders.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13262","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/racersandriders.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/racersandriders.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/racersandriders.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/racersandriders.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13262"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/racersandriders.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13262\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13271,"href":"https:\/\/racersandriders.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13262\/revisions\/13271"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/racersandriders.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13255"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/racersandriders.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13262"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/racersandriders.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13262"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/racersandriders.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13262"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}