KANSAS CITY, Kan. -- Joey Logano had received 15 voice mail messages before he even got back to the motor home.

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To me, it is what it is. It's over. We're going to next week. Everyone else wants to talk about it, and wants to know if [I'm] OK. I think that's real cool.

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-- JOEY LOGANO

For the rookie driver at Joe Gibbs Racing, it was only the beginning. Logano's spectacular, rolling crash last Sunday at Dover earned him all kinds of attention, including an appearance on the Good Morning America network morning show. He was asked to relive the experience again Friday at Kansas Speedway, and true to his humble form seemed somewhat embarrassed in making news for the wrong reason.

"You want to talk about something else, really," the 19-year-old said behind his trademark grin. "That's the main deal. To me, it is what it is. It's over. We're going to next week. Everyone else wants to talk about it, and wants to know if you're OK. I think that's real cool. I've gotten phone calls like crazy, people calling me, and that's real neat to see that. As a driver, you almost want to say, 'OK, it's over, let's go into next week. We are at Kansas and we're going to go out here and do the best we can.' That's the way you want to do it. But, I know going into this weekend all the way until probably after the race, I'm going to hear about it. It's fine. It's part of it."

It's difficult not to hear about an accident that left Logano rolling eight times down Dover's Turn 3 banking, a wild ride that finally ended with the No. 20 car pitched on his side at the bottom of the track. Logano walked away, but was shaken enough to admit that the crash "really scared the heck" out of him. It wasn't exactly a hard hit -- Logano said his crash in the Budweiser Shootout earlier this season was harder -- but like Michael McDowell's somersaulting accident at Texas last year, it was the kind of visually spectacular crash that attracts national attention. (Continued)