Does Joey Logano hope to ever race in the Indianapolis 500?
Joey Logano is the defending champion of NASCAR's biggest race -- the Daytona 500.
His boss in the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series, Roger Penske, has won the Indianapolis 500 a record 15 times as a team owner.
So does Logano envision a day when he might try his hand at open-wheel's biggest race in one of Penske's cars?
Doing such a thing any time in the foreseeable future would require him to do the Indianapolis 500/Coca-Cola 600 double on the same day, a feat that only four others have accomplished.
"It's never really crossed my mind," Logano said at Charlotte Motor Speedway. "For me, I've got my hands full trying to win the Coca-Cola 600. I've yet to win one race, so it wouldn't really make sense for me to try to win two. For me, NASCAR is my focus. It's what I've wanted to do my whole life since I was little, and it's an amazing opportunity here.
"I feel like, for me, I owe it to my team to put in 100 percent in trying to win a championship, trying to win one of the biggest races of the year this upcoming weekend, so, for me, I'm focused on one thing and that's just winning a race here."
"I know how much the Indy 500 means to Roger Penske," he said. "You see it every time you walk into the shop. The first thing you do when you walk in you see a ton of Indy 500 trophies and now there are a couple Daytona 500 trophies, which is nice, but that race means a lot to him, for sure. We always root those guys on. The IndyCar shop is right inside the same shop we work out of, so there are some people that work on both cars. The machine shop obviously builds parts for both cars, so we try to be one as much as we possibly can, and when we win races they have the happy hours on Mondays at 3 p.m. and everyone re-watches the race and everyone makes a little speech about what happened that race. It kind of keeps us all together as one team -- NASCAR and IndyCar. It's kind of fun because I know as a driver it makes me want to watch it even more because I feel like we're part of one team -- Team Penske."
