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Th  The #20 Sprint Cup Home Depot Team and Joey Logano are off to Pocono Raceway this weekend for the 5-Hour Energy 500.  Despite running well in several NACSAR Sprint Cup races at the 2.5-mile track, Logano and the team are looking for their first top-10 finish this weekend at the Pennsylvania track.  Logano piloted an ARCA car to victory lane at Pocono in 2009 after starting from the fourth position and leading 52 of 80 laps. 

      “Pocono is one of those track that I’ve ran really good at and I’ve run really bad there," Logano said.  " I’ve certainly been confused there before.  I like it and I think it’s fun.  It’s really interesting because you have three very different corners, so trying to get your car to handle good in all three corners is really tough.  Trying to figure all that out and racing there makes it challenging.  You have that long straightaway in the front and the one down Long Pond is really, really long too.  There’s some good racing and on restarts, it’s nuts because you can go four and five-wide into turn one.”

·         Fans in the Pocono area can meet Logano and Zipadelli at the Stroudsburg Home Depot Store on Thursday, June 9 from 6 – 7:30 p.m. The store is located at 150 Pocono Commons. The No. 20 Home Depot Toyota will be there in addition to the autograph signing by Logano and his crew chief.  Wristbands will be distributed starting at 5 p.m. to the first 700 fans.

·         The Home Depot Team will continue to carry the  special decal this weekend on the c-post of the No. 20 Toyota Camry honoring store #3023 that was not only destroyed by the tornado that devastated Joplin, Mo., but lost one of its associates. The Home Depot Team is also scheduled to visit Joplin on June 14 along with 150 store associate volunteers to help store #3023 get up and running.  The Home Depot has committed to rebuild the store on its current location, has donated over $1 million in disaster relief for the area and its internal charity The Homer Fund is providing grants to associates who were affected by the storm. 

      Last weekend Logano and The Home Depot Team were hoping their top-five starting position would lead them to a second-consecutive top-five finish at Kansas Speedway, unfortunately the handling went away on the No. 20 Toyota and the race was ultimately decided on fuel mileage.  Logano crossed the stripe in the 23^rd position in the STP 400.  Logano now sits 25^th in the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series driver standings following the race in Kansas.

·         Logano and The Home Depot Team tested at Road Atlanta this week in preparation for the upcoming road course races at Infineon Raceway and Watkins Glen International.  Logano will be looking for his first top-10 finish in his Sprint Cup Series career on a road course in Sonoma on June 26. 

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