Rookie Joey Logano Winner of race Cup Series

The 19-year-old rookie Joey Logano became the youngest driver to win a race in the top Nascar series, capturing time rain shower-shortened Sprint Cup race Sunday at New Hampshire Motor Speedway in Loudon.

Logano, grew up in Middletown, Conn., Came back from a crash that put him a lap down earlier in the Lenox Industrial Tools 301 and won in his 20th Cup start. He was among a group of drivers who moved to the front of the field after having fallen out of sequence on fuel stops. Logano took the lead when Ryan Newman, who is trying to keep you on track as long as possible with rain threatening, ran out of gas on Lap 264. The event was scheduled to go 301 laps. The four-time Cup champion Jeff Gordon moved into second, and was ever cut in the lead that Logano, with a nearly empty gas tank, preserved as much fuel as possible. But the rain began to fall three laps later.

Participants ran six laps under caution before the slow Nascar race stopped in hopes of drying the track. But the rain began to fall harder, and the race was called after 273 laps. Kurt Busch, who won a rain-shortened event here last June finished third. He was followed by David Reutimann and Tony Stewart, series leader by 69 points over Gordon. The race was reduced by 11 caution flags for 47 laps. The ninth one came out when Logano spun, pressing on the wall in Turn 4 on the 1.058-mile oval.

As costs Logano a lap, but he regained it on the next caution flag, get a free pass because he was the first car a lap down. Indy future AT RICHMOND After winning healthy rust Indy Challenge at Richmond (Va.) International Raceway on Saturday night, Scott Dixon described the race as "a bit of a procession, unfortunately," and says that the 300-lap was frustrating because of a lack of approval. Tuesday IndyCar Series and the odds of course the authorities will meet to continue discussions about the series coming back in 2010.

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