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'Sliced Bread' Joey Logano, 22, Is 2nd Youngest Daytona 500 Champ Next To Trevor Bayne

| Feb 23, 2015 12:09 PM EST

Joey Logano

Joey Logano, 22, is the second youngest Daytona 500 winner next to Trevor Bayne who won 2011 Daytona 500 at the age of 20, according to the Daily Caller.

More than two years after almost washing out of one of NASCAR's top rides, Logano gushed to the front of the game with Feb. 22, Sunday's victory, the New Tork Times reported. 

The win earned Logano an outright slot in the title race, and finished a harsh week for NASCAR who is checked with various wrecks, the damage of a star driver and a feature grabbing penalty suspension.

Despite the entire dramatization driving into the season-opening race, the occasion itself was one of the more vexing lately in spite of white-knuckle hustling over the last 50 miles. Logano surged in front of the pack on a two-lap sprint to the completion and had summoned when a disaster area behind him drew out an alert that permitted him to drift to the chequered flag.

Logano, who has put in seven years attempting to satisfy unimaginable desires, hustled to the greatest win of his profession as he kept on compensating Roger Penske for catapulting him into one of NASCAR's top stars.

When he broke into the Sprint Cup Series at 18 on the grounds that such a variety of anticipated him to be the next big thing, Logano was nicknamed "Sliced Bread" and ended up hunting down another job after four disappointing seasons at Joe Gibbs Racing.

Penske grabbed him up before the 2013 season, and the move jolted his profession. He made the field of four drivers in a year ago's title finale, and was in discord until a poor late pit stop.

There is no preferred bounce back from that failure over giving "The Captain" his second Daytona 500 title. Penske, a standout amongst the most regarded group managers in motorsports, likewise has a record 15 Indianapolis 500 wins.

After the win, Logano pondered the vulnerability he had about his future at 22 years of age in the wake of losing his spot with Gibbs. His win gave Ford a range of the opening weekend at Daytona.

Tyler Reddick won Feb. 20 night's Truck Series race driving for Keselowski, and Ryan Reed won the Xfinity race on Saturday for Roush Fenway Racing. 

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