To say the Joey Logano's experience at the Daytona International Speedway was a rude awakening is an understatement. The 18-year-old rookie struggled getting a feel for the car in the draft during practice, was caught up in a wreck not of his making in the Budweiser Shootout, scraped the wall in practice for the Daytona 500 and most importantly wrecked his car in the big dance.

Running three wide on lap 82, Logano had Greg Biffle under him and fellow rookie Scott Speed above. The No. 82 Toyota of Speed got loose exiting turn four causing Logano to attempt to avoid making contact with Speed. As Logano ducked down to dodge Speed, he made contact with Biffle sending him towards the inside wall.

Locking his brakes, Logano did all he could to stop his car. With nothing else to do but hold on tight, Logano braced for impact as he collided head on with the wall which sent him spinning into the frontstretch grass.

"It just looked like the 82 kept getting loose in front of me so I jumped down below him in the middle of the corner, just trying to get some air on my car, it was tight," Logano said of the mishap. "And as he kept checking-up I ended up next to him off the corner. It was either I was going to dump him or hopefully not do anything and the 16 just came up and got us. It's a racing deal, but it's a bummer for all of the Home Depot crew here. It's not the way I wanted to finish the 500."

With yet another wrecked car on his list, Logano is extremely disappointed to say the least. However, it is safe to say that with the week Logano has had things can only get better.

"I don't think I should say what I feel inside," Logano said, able to crack a smile. "I'm not very happy that's for sure.  We were just getting going, getting laps under our belt and it started coming to the front a little bit and were going to make a few more adjustments and felt we had a ways to go to make the car better and the adjustments we could make to do that and just didn't get there in time."