Joey Logano youngest Cup race winner in history

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http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2009/racing/06/28/logano.wins.new.hampshire.ap/index.html

LOUDON, N.H. (AP) -- There were questions about the judgment of team owner Joe Gibbs when he decided to replace departing two-time NASCAR champion Tony Stewart with a 19-year-old rookie this season.

Even a rookie considered a phenom.

The former NFL coach, head of Joe Gibbs Racing, admitted Sunday he tried not to put too many expectations on the talented, but woefully inexperienced Joey Logano.

"We were really looking for just constant improvement, and that's really what we've seen," Gibbs said after Logano became the youngest driver in the history of the Sprint Cup series to win a race, taking the rain-shortened Lenox Industrial Tools 301 at New Hampshire Motor Speedway.

"The last seven, eight races we've battled back from some real tough things," Gibbs added.

Sunday was no exception as the precocious teenager overcame a crash and a lost lap, then saved just enough fuel to earn his first Cup victory in only his 20th start.

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