#20-Joey Logano didn ‘t know anything more about his 2013 plans Friday than he did Tuesday morning before Roush Fenway Racing announced that Matt Kenseth was leaving its organization. Kenseth is expected to join Joe Gibbs Racing, either in a fourth car or as a replacement for Logano, who does not have a contract for next year. ‘I ‘ve heard nothing new,’ Logano said following qualifying at Kentucky Speedway. ‘We ‘re still up in the air on a lot of things.’ Team president J.D. Gibbs said Wednesday that he would like Logano to remain at JGR long term but the sides don ‘t have a deal done for 2013. Gibbs declined to discuss whether Kenseth was joining the organization. ‘We want (Logano) to be here forever,’ Gibbs said Wednesday. ‘That’s kind of what we ‘re working on. Until you have stuff laid out (and can say), ‘Here’s the plan, ‘ it’s not really worth talking about.’(Sporting News)(6-30-2012)
UPDATE: Amid news of a contract extension for Denny Hamlin and speculation swirling around Matt Kenseth’s possible arrival at Joe Gibbs Racing next year, team owner Joe Gibbs said Saturday at Kentucky Speedway that his top priority was re-signing Joey Logano. ‘We ‘re working real hard right now on extending him and his relationship with us,’ Gibbs said Friday after the drivers ‘ meeting for Saturday night’s Quaker State 400. ‘We ‘ve had a great relationship ‘ signed him when he was 15. We ‘ve got a lot invested in Joey. I think right now he’s stepping up, and we want him to be with us.’ Asked whether sponsor Home Depot would continue to be part of the equation, Gibbs told the NASCAR Wire Service, ‘I think part of what we ‘ve got going on with us right now ‘ there’s a lot going on. So the things I talked about . . . Joey, we want to get that done. Everything else is kind of up in the air for us right now.’(NASCAR Wire Service)(7-1-2012)
