<table> </table> If Joey Logano&#8217;s race-victory total next season equals the total number of times he was asked Monday about his maturity level, he may become the first rookie to win a Sprint Cup championship.</p><p>Logano was officially introduced as the newest driver in the Joe Gibbs Racing Sprint Cup stable during a news conference at the team&#8217;s race shop in Huntersville, N.C.</p><p>As had been rumored for weeks, Logano will replace two-time champion Tony Stewart in the No. 20 car, will have Greg Zipadelli as his crew chief and will have Home Depot as his sponsor.</p><p>He is also scheduled to compete full time in the Nationwide series in 2009. And, Logano will be eased into his Cup job by driving in selected Sprint Cup races this year, the first being in two weeks at Richmond International Raceway.</p><p>But because he is just 18 years old and his only big-time NASCAR experience has been limited to 10 Nationwide starts, it was to be expected his age is topic No. 1 in discussing his hiring.</p><p>The word from the top of the Gibbs organization to the bottom is that maturity is of zero concern in Logano&#8217;s case.</p><p>&#8220;First of all,&#8221; team president J.D. Gibbs said, &#8220;you have to be careful by what you mean about maturity. There&#8217;s experience and maturity. I think for him, the way things are, he&#8217;s more mature than most guys out there. From an experience standpoint, we were real careful from day one and we didn&#8217;t want to rush him. He&#8217;s been here three years. If it took him three more years to get to Cup that would be fine. The reality of it is we watched everything he did running. I think what you saw is a guy who the talent is there.&#8221;</p><p>Zipadelli became convinced that Logano was going to be capable of being really good, really quickly, during an ARCA test three years ago at Kansas Speedway.</p><p>&#8220;We took one of our cars up there, me and Jimmy (Makar, vice president of racing operations at Gibbs racing) did for a couple days,&#8221; Zipadelli said. &#8220;You could see right then that he was just good.&#8221;</p><p>Gibbs signed Logano to a development contract.</p><p>Zipadelli, the guy who was atop the pit box for Stewart for the last 10 seasons, said Logano just appears to be a natural.</p><p>&#8220;The big thing is, he&#8217;s open-minded,&#8221; Zipadelli said. &#8220;He&#8217;s not afraid to move around, he&#8217;ll take what he has and do the best with it.&#8221;</p><p>Team owner Joe Gibbs said there was a lot of thought put into the decision to put Logano in the No. 20 car.</p><p>He said a meeting was held with key Gibbs personnel, Logano and Logano&#8217;s father, Tom. Joey Logano was asked whether he thought he needed more time in Nationwide or wanted to split the ride with a veteran next season. Logano said he thought the best situation was to get into the Cup car and go.</p><p>&#8220;It was real revealing for me and J.D. as we sat there and listened to him,&#8221; Joe Gibbs said. &#8220;I think what it was, even though Joey is 18, he is real mature, &#8216;This is what I think, I&#8217;ve thought a lot about this, this is what I want to do.&#8217; That meant a lot to us, and I think we&#8217;re all on the same page there, and it started with Zippy (Zipadelli), but it went through all of us.&#8221;