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Tony Stewart’s Likely Replacement Takes the Carolina 500 Pole

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May 3, 2008 3:28 pm CDT 8 Comments

Tony Stewart’s Likely Replacement Takes the Carolina 500 Pole17 year old Joey Logano topped qualifying today for the ARCA RE/MAX Series’ Carolina 500 at Rockingham Speedway.

Young Joey has been the fastest all week at the resurrected North Carolina Speedway and will lead a field of 50 starters for Sunday’s race.  Here’s what he had to say about this week.

“We actually came down here and did some fuel mileage testing at the
Rock,” said Logano. “I haven’t done much racing this year but we did a
lot of testing-probably ten times so far this year. I turn 18 on May
24th and then I can start running Nationwide races. This is Venturini’s
car and we’ve had a good relationship with the Venturini family so it’s
fun for me to get back out there and run a little bit. This is my first
time driving for [the Venturini family]. Big Bill and Little Bill are
great guys and it’s like a family atmosphere in the ARCA garage so I’ve
enjoyed it.”

Those Nationwide Series races will be contested in Joe Gibbs Racing Toyotas. 

The starter for tomorrow’s race will be Joe Gibb’s Racings’ - for now -  Tony Stewart.  If Stewart leaves JGR, as appears more likely almost every hour, Logano may well be his replacement on the Cup team.  Just an added bit of interest for an already, much anticipated race on Sunday.

We’ll have the winner of the Carolina 500 as a live guest on this week’s INSIDE ARCA.  Listen to it live right here at OnPitRow.com Tuesday night at 7pm edt.

Photo credit:  arcaracing.com

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8 Responses to “Tony Stewart’s Likely Replacement Takes the Carolina 500 Pole”

  1. ZuDfunck on May 3rd, 2008 4:31 pm

    You got Tony Stewart leaving?
    What is the source?
    Ol’ wise one…

  2. Tim Zaegel on May 3rd, 2008 5:44 pm

    Ugh. Not a fan of the title … to think that you can “replace” Stewart with Logano is pretty optimistic. I still believe JGR will do whatever they can to keep Smoke around camp, regardless of Joey.

  3. User Avatar Charlie Turner on May 3rd, 2008 9:58 pm

    Mike Mulhern and Lee Spencer both seem convinced that Smoke is leaving. They are very good at what they do and I believe them to be right. But what do I know?

  4. Matt on May 4th, 2008 6:58 pm

    Don’t forget yours truly also talked about Logano replacing Smoke.

  5. User Avatar Charlie Turner on May 5th, 2008 10:09 am

    My bad Matt. The kid sure didn’t do anything to quell the speculation on Sunday. That domination wasn’t all car at Rockingham. He was driving for Venturini Motorsports - not Joe Gibbs Racing - though I’m sure JGR is assisting. Very reminiscent of Kyle Busch four years ago.

  6. The BOYER-RIMI RACING News | Boyer-Rimi Racing, LLC - Jeff Boyer, driver of the Boyer-Rimi Chevrolet Monte Carlo #05 ARCA on June 30th, 2008 6:09 pm

    [...] lens in his helmet just to get a glimpse of who sits on the pole. A pole that was won by a guy who Charlie has already slotted into the Sprint Cup seat now held by Tony Stewart, Joey [...]

  7. Loose in Turn 3 must Die! | Bench Racing With Steve and Charlie on August 5th, 2008 8:35 pm

    [...] own at least a share of a Chevy team. DEI has top thirty five owner’s on the #8 and the #1. Junior and Smoke partner up and buy Theresa Earnhardt out, with Tony driving one car, someone else - maybe Brad Kesolowski - in [...]

  8. Joey Logano a Real Gamer at Nasville SuperSpeedway | Bench Racing With Steve and Charlie on April 13th, 2009 9:33 am

    [...] Because it was a Nationwide Series race and not on the Cup level he still has a way to go before the Joe Gibbs Racing driver lives up to his [...]

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