Joey Logano to Begin Truckin' It at Talladega

It has been a busy year for 18-year old Joey Logano, and it just keeps getting busier.

A week after turning 18 in May, Joe Gibbs Racing's newest addition made his Nationwide Series debut in the No. 20 GameStop Toyota Camry at Dover where he finished sixth.

The next week, the boy wonder—nicknamed "Sliced Bread" by two-time Busch Series Champion Randy LaJoie—won his first pole at Nashville but got caught up in an early race incident and finished 31st.

A week later at Kentucky, he won his second pole and went on to win his first race in the series, setting a new record as the youngest driver ever to win a Nationwide Series event.

Logano has now run in 14 Nationwide races racking up a win, three top-fives, 10 top-10s, and three starts from the pole.

In late August it was announced that Logano would be taking over the No. 20 Home Depot Toyota in the Sprint Cup Series in 2009, filling the vacancy left by Tony Stewart's planned departure from JGR to become a driver-owner for Stewart-Haas Motorsports next year.

Logano's development schedule quickened when shortly thereafter it was announced that he would run two races in a fourth JGR Cup car and five more in the No. 96 Hall of Fame Racing Toyota before the end of the year.

A qualifying rain-out postponed Logano's Cup debut from Richmond to Loudon. In the two Cup races he has started so far his finishes have been anything but spectacular. But, they have been learning experiences that have given him seat time and helped him gain respect from other drivers in the series.

Now, according to an article on SceneDaily.com, Logano will make his NASCAR Truck Series debut in the Mountain Dew 250 at the Talladega Superspeedway this weekend.

He will be driving the No. 59 HT Motorsports Toyota Tundra, recently left vacant when Ted Musgrave parted ways with the team suddenly during the recent race weekend at Las Vegas.

Stacy Compton was brought in at the last minute for the Vegas race, and the team has made no statement yet on who will be driving for the remainder of the season. For now all that has been reported is that Logano will start this weekend at Talledega.

Besides the truck series regulars, Cup driver Kyle "Rowdy" Busch will be driving the No. 51 Billy Balew Motorsports entry. 

Other non-series regulars in the 34 truck field will include Mike Wallace, John Wes Townley, John Andretti, Jon Wood, Scott Speed, and Landon Cassill.

UPDATE: At long last the entry list for the truck series race is out on NASCAR.COM and indeed, Logano as well as all the others mentioned are on it.

UPDATE: In a story broken by Marty Smith of ESPN, Hall of Fame Racing and Joe Gibbs Racing have mutually agreed to pull Logano from the No. 96 Toyota for his remaining three Cup races with them this year.