Joey Logano to race Supercars Eseries round 4

Following Round 2’s inclusion of Max Verstappen, and Simon De Silvestro and Will Power joining for Round 3, Logano is the latest international driver to sign on for the Supercars sim racing series and will be one of four wildcard entries for the 29 April round, joining Indy 500 winner Alexander Rossi, Dunlop Super2 rookie Angelo Mouzouris and two-time former Supercars champion Marcos Ambrose.

“I’m pumped to be racing among the Supercars drivers. Like all professional race car drivers, they are supremely talented at what they do,” Logano said. “I’ve admired what my Penske teammates Scott McLaughlin and Fabian Coulthard have achieved on track in what’s a highly competitive series.”

With more than a decade of experience in NASCAR, Logano started in the premier NASCAR Cup Series with Joe Gibbs Racing in 2009, winning the Rookie of the Year award and also becoming the series’ youngest ever race winner at 19. Logano switched from the Joe Gibbs Racing Toyota to a Team Penske Ford Mustang in 2013 and more race wins followed, including the 2015 Daytona 500, but the Connecticut native wouldn’t win his first NASCAR Cup Series Championship until 2018. 

In four rounds of the 2020 NASCAR Cup Series that were completed before the coronavirus shut racing down, Logano won twice – at Las Vegas and Phoenix - taking his winning tally to 25 and making the 29-year-old one of only four drivers in NASCAR history to achieve 25 race wins before they turn 30.

For his BP Supercars All Stars Eseries debut, Logano will have a slight advantage, as Round 4’s simulated races will be on the Circuit Gilles Villeneuve in Montreal and Watkins Glen in New York; both of which the American has driven in the real world, taking four wins at the latter across NASCAR Cup and NASCAR Xfinity Series (Ambrose is a past winner at Watkins Glen, too).

“While we’re racing on the sim, I’m not going to hold back, though I know it’s going to be tough against a lot of these guys. I’m hoping some of my experience of running on road courses in the Cup Series will benefit me,” Logano added.

Round 4 of the 2020 BP Supercars All Stars Eseries will get underway on Wednesday 29 April with qualifying from 6:00pm AEST, followed by racing from 7:00pm. The round will be broadcast on Fox Sports, Kayo, Supercars.com, the Supercars Facebook Page and Supercars Teams' Facebook Pages.

In a first for the series, Round 4 will add an “expression session” where drivers can do whatever they want - from full-track burnouts to driving in reverse to demolition derby – with no rules and no repercussions.

After three rounds of the 10-round sim racing series, Shell V-Power Racing’s Scott McLaughlin leads with 759 points, followed by Monster Energy Racing’s Cameron Waters (670) and Red Bull Holden Racing Team’s Shane van Gisbergen (626).

Go to https://www.supercars.com/ for more details.