Following an offseason spent burning the midnight oil in the garage with his team, Truex instead has left retirement talk in the dust to execute the biggest turnaround of the season.
Truex has contended on every kind of track, picking up three victories along the way. He’s now positioned to win where every driver wants to leave his mark — Daytona International Speedway during Saturday’s night Coke Zero 400.
Nine of them have won either the sport’s showcase event or the esteemed summer race — and Bell won 2020 race on Daytona’s road course. None seeking his first win at the iconic speedway has endured Truex’s close calls. “I’ve had a lot of bad luck, and then the times where I’ve been up front and had a shot I maybe didn’t make the right decisions at the end.”After going winless for the first time since 2014, he wondered if his best days were in the rearview mirror.
Back then, Truex was a middle-of-the-pack driver with potential but just two career wins. He had since won 29 times until going winless in 2022. Martin Truex Jr. climbs into his race car before a NASCAR Cup Series auto race Sunday, June 25, 2023, in Lebanon, Tenn.“We’ve been able to run well everywhere,” he said. “Every different kind of racetrack we’ve been fast. That’s what it takes to make a run deep in the playoffs. We’re optimistic.”
Kelleher is now in his third year as president of Daytona International Speedway, where a Truex victory would make him the oldest winner of the summer race since Bobby Allison in 1987 at age 49.
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