Martin Truex Jr. says he will retire from full-time racing at the end of the season. The 44-year-old says it's time to live by his own schedule after 19 years in NASCAR’s Cup Series. Questions about possible retirement have followed Truex over the last couple of seasons. He says he made the decision “a few weeks ago.
FILE - Martin Truex Jr. stands next to his car affixed with a sticker in memory of Sherry Pollex before a NASCAR Cup Series auto race at Texas Motor Speedway in Fort Worth, Texas, Sept. 24, 2023. Truex announced Friday, June 14, 2024, he will retire from full-time racing at the end of the season, saying it was time to live by his own schedule after 19 years in NASCAR’s Cup Series. FILE - Martin Truex Jr.
Questions about possible retirement have followed Truex over the last couple years. The news broke on Thursday — “I don’t even know why I’m here,” Truex joked as he started his news conference — but Truex said he made the decision “a few weeks ago.” “Coach has been awesome,” Truex said of Gibbs. “He helped me work through it. He would always make a list of pros and cons and his list of pros was always longer than mine.”Truex has won 34 Cup races, 32 since 2015. He had a career-high eight wins in 2017, when he won the series championship.“It’s been just absolutely great working with him,” Gibbs said. “I think everybody knows Martin’s reputation — a real gentleman, a great competitor.
Truex, who turns 44 on June 29, hasn’t won a Cup race since last July at New Hampshire, a span of 32 races. He has four top-five and seven top-10 finishes in 16 races this season, and is fifth in the standings, 53 points behind leader Kyle Larson.“We’ve had some disappointments this year, for sure,” Truex said. “It’s not enough to make you stop doing what you want to do.”“We’re still working on all that,” Gibbs said.
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