Logano finished 20th in the final standings 

Joey Logano won the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series Raybestos Rookie-of-the-Year title, becoming the youngest driver in the history of the sport to do so. Logano finished 20th in the final standings to lead the freshman drivers who competed in this year’s Sprint Cup schedule.

“It’s really cool to get the Raybestos Rookie of the Year,” Logano said. “It’s obviously one of our big goals. We had a real rough start and finished 20th in the points, [which] I guess is OK. In the beginning of the season if you had told me that’s where we were going to finish I’d have been ecstatic about it, but now you always want better.”

Logano’s year started out rough, but he rebounded for the Joe Gibbs Racing team to end up with a season that included his first career Sprint Cup victory at New Hampshire in June.

“It was tough at times, believe me,” Logano said. “The media wasn’t saying the greatest things, but if anything it’s more motivating. You really want to keep pushing it and become a better race-car driver. I was getting a little self confidence out of the Nationwide car, which was helping me there and [I] just kept pushing it and trying to learn these race cars as much as I can.

“By no means I’m not there yet, but I feel like we made big steps. The second part is figure out how you want them to drive, what part of the corner you want to work on, what do you need to make these things go fast. Hopefully through the offseason here we can test a little bit and get some more seat time in these things and come better next year.”

With an assist from Mark Martin, who believed the talented young driver was destined for greatness at age 14, Logano has achieved one of the goals he set for himself when he embarked into the NASCAR world.

“To be honest that’s something that got me to this point if it weren’t for him (Martin) saying stuff like that to get me a ride like this,” Logano said. “It was a real big deal in my career.”

source: nascar