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Photographers gather around NASCAR drivers Tony Stewart , left, and Dario Franchitti as they talk during media day in Daytona Beach, Fla. as they prepare for the upcoming Daytona 500 auto race.

Age was an issue Thursday, but not just because of the veterans.

Joey Logano, a 17-year-old developmental driver for Joe Gibbs Racing, hopes to make his Nationwide Series debut in late May — the week after he turns 18. But NASCAR is considering raising its age limit for drivers to 21.

“I feel I’m ready to go out there and win some races,” Logano said. “It’s NASCAR’s thing. I can’t really do much about it. It’s their game. We’ve got to play by their rules. Obviously, I like the way it is.”

While Logano drew one of the smallest crowds of media day, reporters stacked up five or six deep to listen to Earnhardt, Stewart, four-time Cup series winner Jeff Gordon and defending series champion Jimmie Johnson.

None of them, though, had McMurray’s story.

He served on a jury last month in Statesville, N.C., and had to decide the fate of a man accused of sexually assaulting a 10-year-old girl.

McMurray was the lone man on the 12-person jury, was chosen foreman while he was in the bathroom, and the entire experience affected him so much he woke up thinking about the case Thursday morning.

“Jury duty was life-changing,” he said. “It’s incredible to me that they put 12 people in charge of someone’s life or someone’s future, but I was a part of that. ... I wouldn’t trade it, but I don’t want to go back.

“If I ever get put back in that, I’ll tell them I don’t want to do it because I didn’t realize how intense that was going to be.”

It certainly was more intense than media day.