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By JIM UTTER
jutter@charlotteobserver.com
Tuesday, Aug. 19, 2008
Joe Gibbs Racing upstart Joey Logano could run as many as five Sprint Cup Series races with Hall of Fame Racing this season, The Observer has learned.
The tentative plan is for Logano, 18, to drive the No. 96 at New Hampshire, and depending on how well the race goes, could add races at Kansas, Charlotte, Martinsville and Texas with the team, sources said Tuesday night.
Hall of Fame, which fields the No. 96 Toyota and uses chassis and engines from JGR, used development driver Brad Coleman Sunday at Michigan and is using veteran Ken Schrader this weekend at Bristol, Tenn.
A spokesman for Hall of Fame said Tuesday night the team planned to run Coleman up to seven races this season but the rest of the schedule for drivers had not been determined in the car.
Logano is expected to make his Cup series debut next month at Richmond, Va., in a JGR entry. He is expected replace driver Tony Stewart in JGR's No. 20 next season in the Cup series. Stewart is leaving JGR at the end of the season to drive for Stewart-Haas Racing, which he will co-own.
JGR president J.D. Gibbs said Sunday Logano would do some Cup races this season but which races had not been determined.
In nine Nationwide Series races with JGR this season, Logano has one win, three top-five and seven top-10 finishes and two poles.