Logano, No. 20 get sponsor to race at Nashville

Due to a lack of sponsorship, the No. 20 Joe Gibbs Racing Toyota and driver Joey Logano were not originally scheduled to run this weekend at Nashville Superspeedway. But with the addition of Harvest Investments, LLC & Harvest-Properties.com, Logano will drive the No. 20 in Saturday's race.

The addition of Nashville allows Logano and his team to continue to compete for the Nationwide Series owner's championship. After a second-place finish at Talladega this past Saturday, the No. 20 leads the owner's standings by 13 points over its JGR teammates, the No. 18 team.

"I'm excited to go to Nashville because I've always run well there, but more than anything, I'm excited for the guys on the team," Logano said. "They were really bummed at not going to Nashville, especially after the way we've been improving week-to-week with a pretty much brand new team.

"After Talladega, when we looked at the points and saw we had increased the points lead, it was a downer. Then, when things came along, I told them 'let's get it done.' So this is a big shot in the arm for those guys and might just give them the added push to get this No. 20 Toyota back into Victory Lane."

Logano has driven the No. 20 in six of the seven Nationwide races this season. After a 12th-place finish in the season-opener at Daytona, Logano has posted six consecutive finishes of sixth or better. Denny Hamlin finished seventh in Las Vegas, the one race Logano wasn't behind the wheel.

Logano has made three starts at Nashville, including two from the pole. Logano won the 2009 spring event and finished eighth last season. In his Nashville debut, Logano finished 31st after leading 64 laps.

"I love Nashville. It's just a great place to go. I really wish the Cup cars would race there, but since they don't, I would hate to miss a race there in the Nationwide deal," Logano said. "I won my first pole there and one of my Nationwide wins came at Nashville, so it's pretty special to me. I've already got one of those guitars, but I'm ready for another one.

"And we've run well there every year we've been there. My first year, we got wrecked, but we were running in the top-five when we did. And last year, we were one of the cars to beat, but pit strategy came back and bit us. So the results might not show how strong we are, but it's probably one of my better tracks. That makes me even more confident going into the weekend as well."