Joey Logano, driver of the No. 22 Shell Pennzoil Ford Fusion, returns to his home track at New Hampshire in search of a his third career win at the track

JOEY LOGANO, No. 22 Shell Pennzoil Ford Fusion:

BIG NEWS WEEK FOR YOU WITH THE GENDER REVEAL AND YOUR EVENT LAST NIGHT WITH THE DRIVING HOPE FOUNDATION: “Yeah, we had a busy week. Anytime we come up here to Loudon it is very busy with a lot of different activities going on. One of them was the Joey Logano Foundation Driving Hope Home golf tournament and dinner gala as well. it was a lot of fun and we had a great turnout. Every year has grown and gotten bigger, which is great. We are able to do that in Connecticut straight down the road from where I am from. You see a lot of family and friends that get to come to the dinner as well. A lot of great supporters in the Connecticut area for me. It makes sense for us to have the event there. We raised a lot of money. We had Mike Massaro up there and Kyle Petty. You can imagine if Kyle is up there how that went. It was a lot of fun. He was hilarious. We had a good time with that. We were able to inspire a lot of people to live generously. That is a big part of our mission, to get people thinking in the right direction. We changed a lot of kids lives last night. I am very proud of the effort of the foundation team to put all that together. It is a lot of work, especially doing it far from where I live now. It is very challenging for everyone. To be able to put that together, have everything run smooth, I am very proud of that but more proud of everyone’s mindset when they left that place.”

CAN YOU TALK ABOUT THE GENDER REVEAL? HOW THAT CAME ABOUT AND THE HELP FROM FORD ON THAT? “Well, we did have the break it, you but it, plan. Which didn’t affect the way I did anything. It probably should have. I thought about it before I started doing the burnout and then after I was like, ‘No, no, we are going to keep going until something breaks.’ That is usually my mindset when I start doing a burnout. I saw on YouTube that there are different color tires that cars can do burnouts in and I thought it would be cool to do a blue one. We started looking for a set of tires. It was more challenging than I thought it would be. I found the tires but they were in Australia and to get them here was a pain in the butt. To get a wheel was a pain. Then I needed a car to do a big burnout in. I called Ford and said, ‘You got anything?’ And they sent me this brand new - this thing had 14 miles on it when I picked it up. A Mustang GT350 and I was like, ‘Perfect!’ Of course I try to put the wheel on it and it has this big beefed up brakes on it so the wheel doesn’t fit over the caliper so I had to take the brakes off the car which was great because they were just the back and all I needed was the front. You don’t need rear brakes for a burnout. So we took those off, put the special tires on it, roasted the tires until there were no tires left and then put the brakes back on it and sent it back and said thanks. It was a lot of fun. It was something cool. To have our family and our closest friends there was a special moment. It was really cool to hear everyone's reaction. At first, it took a while for the blue to come in. It was just white. I was like, ‘Oh no, we screwed up. There is no blue smoke coming out.’ Then it turned blue and everyone went crazy. It was a lot of fun and a great reason to do a burnout so I was all about that. It was a fun, unique way of doing it as well.”

DID SHE HAVE FUN? “Yeah, she has a blast with that stuff. She is a Ride or Die girl for sure. We have those Polaris RZR’s and before she was pregnant she would jump in and I can’t scare her. She just sits there and rides around all day. I got lucky on that front.”