Martin Truex Jr.
Making his only scheduled start of the 2025 NASCAR Cup Series season, Martin Truex Jr. entered Sunday’s Daytona 500 with one objective: win. Unfortunately for Truex, who retired from full-time driving at the end of 2024, his unfinished business in NASCAR’s most prestigious race remains just that — unfinished business. For the 21st time in […]
When the green flag waves on Sunday’s Daytona 500, Joey Logano will be the only NASCAR Cup Series champion in the field with a Daytona 500 victory. Remarkably, the other five — and possibly six — champions will all be chasing their first Harley J. Earl Trophy. Before the engines fire in Central Florida to […]
The Daytona 500 is an extremely difficult race to win. Not that anyone ever doubted it, of course. Need some quick proof, though? It took the late, great Dale Earnhardt 20 tries to get it done. Darrell Waltrip needed 17. Kurt Busch required 16. Many retired NASCAR Cup Series legends — Mark Martin, Rusty Wallace […]
Well, that didn’t last long. Actually, it hasn’t even technically started. Martin Truex Jr.’s “retirement” from the NASCAR Cup Series, scheduled to take effect after the 2024 season, is on hold for one more race — the 2025 Daytona 500. Truex, winless in 20 Daytona 500 starts, will attempt to qualify for The Great American […]
The 67th annual Daytona 500 is on the near horizon. So, why not start prognosticating about who will win The Great American Race? While no one can see into the future, history is perhaps the most reliable predictor of success in the NASCAR Cup Series’ biggest event. If Daytona 500s past are the basis upon […]
With the 2025 NASCAR season right around the corner, here’s a quick look at four significant changes coming to Joe Gibbs Racing — one of the NASCAR Cup Series’ premier organizations. The totality of these changes will affect not only JGR’s NASCAR Cup Series efforts but also the organization’s NASCAR Xfinity Series program. Ready to […]
While Team Penske is enjoying a three-year stranglehold on the NASCAR Cup Series championship, 2025 could be the year that a driver with another organization breaks through. While former champions such as Kyle Larson and Chase Elliott are arguably the most likely to dethrone Penske, the two Hendrick Motorsports teammates are hardly the only drivers […]
In the final race of his full-time career, Martin Truex Jr. will begin to go out in style. The retiring Joe Gibbs Racing driver claimed the pole position during Saturday’s qualifying session for Sunday’s NASCAR Cup Series Championship Race at Phoenix Raceway. The 2017 circuit champion recorded a hot lap of 134.741 mph, edging […]
Martin Truex Jr. plans to formally announce his NASCAR Cup Series retirement following next weekend’s Championship 4 event at Phoenix Raceway. The 2017 circuit champion is fighting more than time. Truex remains determined to make a difference despite not being a playoff driver. With two races remaining as a full-time competitor, Truex transversed Martinsville Speedway […]
Denny Hamlin appears to be in a prime position. Sure, the NASCAR Cup Series driver enters Sunday’s Round of 16 finale six points below the cutoff line, but if he’s worried? He didn’t sound like it. “It’s not over yet,” Hamlin said on social media. “Obviously we’re going to a track that we know how […]
