I didn't think I'd be back out here doing media
tour, that's for sure. But the championship,
I could have called it, but I wouldn't have
called being here right now. Okay, Joey.
So pretty fitting for you to be our champion because
we started here for the 2022 season with you doing
a burnout right down there. Burn it down Logano
. We put a racetrack in the middle of this
colosseum and now here we are back celebrating your championship
. So how fitting does it feel to walk back
in here to the Los Angeles Memorial coliseum? It's
pretty, I've never actually been in the colosseum where
there wasn't a racetrack, which is kind of funny
to think about it. It's probably the opposite for
most, so definitely looks a little different without the
track kind of crazy to think that they're gonna be
able to do all that again and the amount of
work it takes. But what a huge success uh
, season was. But starting here in the clash
in the coliseum. Just nuts. Right. We
all thought it was kind of crazy when it first
came out. Like we're really gonna race in this
little stadium, but what a huge event it really
was. And I remember I sat over here for
one of the last chance races and the place was
electric people were yelling and screaming and you could hear
the people over the race cars, which is really
saying something. So it was really cool. Okay
, so I talked to you on sunday after you
win the second championship and you talked about the legacy
that you wanted to leave. But you come to
L. A. And you've done a lot of
things already to be a steward of the sport and
to represent Nascar. So tell me about the last
couple of days. Well they've been pretty packed with
a lot of different things. We had a good
time. So after I saw you sunday night we
went and had a little more fun sunday night and
so I didn't really sleep much yesterday, but we
came out here to a little bit of media stuff
, went to a clippers game last night, which
was really cool. I never sat courtside before at
a basketball game. It was awesome. So I
had a lot of fun watching that. Um,
absolutely right to the end. You have to,
it's like a once in a lifetime thing to sit
that close. So I thought it was cool.
I enjoyed it. And then um, I actually
slept last night and I feel like a million bucks
today and I'm talking to you and we got much
more media to do and I go home tonight.
We have a lot to celebrate this offseason. A
lot of work to be done though. I didn't
have my name on the trophy already. That's who
you want to surround yourself with. It's just people
that win and uh, and eventually you become a
winner too right? Got the, I got the
SEs es on this thing right now. The seas
es first automobile race here. Has it ever been
an automobile? Yeah, I knew that. Walk
me through the celebration sunday night. Just water right
. It wasn't really, weren't that I'm not that
crazy of a person I knew I had to wake
up early the next morning, so I didn't get
crazy now. Some others may have, we just
had a, we got a restaurant and rented out
a restaurant and a lot of team was there also
like the people that traveled to come to see the
race, family, friends and partners and ford was
there like all the people from forward there. So
it was cool to have everyone together. It wasn't
like this crazy loud place. We all got to
talk and enjoy it and talk about the day and
in the year and everything came along with it.
Okay, so we go back home now and I
know we have some time off, we get to
enjoy it family and friends and kind of take some
time away from a stock car, but then we
re rack it and we're here in 80 something days
. So do you feel more prepared now for 2023
knowing that you guys were probably the driver that figured
out this car the most. Yeah, well not
yet. We just got done. So give me
a second. You know, it was the other
day I saw was like 90 days to the class
and I'm like, come on, we haven't finished
the year yet. Like give me a chance.
So yeah, I have not thought about it yet
. Um, we're gonna take a couple of weeks
to, to enjoy this. But I do think
, you know, we'll be back at it here
uh, in a few weeks, thinking about the
class, thinking about Daytona, how we can be
better as a team. Um, you know,
there's a little things you can change. There's a
lot of opportunity that comes when you win the championship
to be able to really make a difference in a
lot of different categories, not just in your race
team, but in the sport and use it for
good. It's awesome. And it'd be a total
waste if we just celebrated the whole time. It
didn't take the opportunity to be better. You have
the, you got the power to do like a
lot and whether that's for the sport for your race
team and really move the ball forward. So not
only you want to celebrate the championship, but you
want to use the championship for good and do something
big with it. So I haven't got the game
plan put together yet. It's only been a couple
of days. I have, like I said,
I only slept one night so far. So I'm
, I gotta take some time to really put a
plan together. We obviously know that not just the
celebration and not just the bragging rights and the trophy
, but a lot of responsibility comes with being the
Nascar Cup series champion. So what does the responsibility
feel like on the shoulders of Joey Logano? I
mean, I don't know if it feels like that
so much. I mean I've always kind of wanted
to leave the sport in better shape than it was
when I got here because that's what everyone's done for
us, right For all of us, whether you're
in the media or you're a fan or, or
whatever your driver or whatever it may be, there's
been people that have always tried to progress our sport
and you know when you're the champion, Yeah,
you're representing sport and it was a little bit added
pressure to do it correctly. But just because you're
the Champion doesn't mean that's the only time you should
do that. I always felt like that's the true
Hall of Famer uh mentality and I try to do
that. I'm not saying I'm a Hall of Famer
, but I'm saying that I want to get to
that point, but I also just want the sport
to be better and one of the coolest things that's
sitting on the board that chooses who is going to
be in the Hall of Fame and it's one of
the coolest things about winning the championship if you ask
me because you're in there. It's just a bunch
of people that have been in the sport for a
very, very long time, highly opinionated people by
the way, and it's neat to to hear the
discussion on why they think someone should be in and
, and, and not just the stats, but
the human that they are, and I think that's
really cool. I don't think so. I don't
, I think so, but I probably have a
louder voice this time. Okay, what's the goal
for? 2023 3 and 23? There we go
. 22 22 it worked three and 23. Just
makes sense as well. I like it. Congratulations
. Thank you were coming back. I can't wait
. It's awesome here, the racing spectacular. If
you're around here or you want to travel to a
cool race, you guys.