REPORT - MartinTruex_Jr now has four victories at RaceSonoma, passing chaseelliott late and fending off KyleBusch for the NASCAR Cup Series win on Sunday.
New tires and no mistakes helped Martin Truex Jr. cruise to victory in Sunday’s NASCAR Cup race at Sonoma Raceway.It took 33 laps for Martin Truex Jr. to get to the lead in Sunday’s race but once he did, he didn’t deviate far from it with a fast No. 19 Joe Gibbs Racing Toyota.
The win on a road course was a dramatic turnaround for Truex and JGR, which struggled terribly on the tracks last season, the first with the Next Gen car. Last season, the highest finishing Toyota driver at Sonoma was 18th. “We’re having a great year and I feel really good about our team. We couldn’t do it without all of our partners and all of our fans. Man, this feels incredible to have a day like that and a run like that.”
Brad Keselowski was the first of the lead-lap cars to make a green-flag pit stop for fuel and new tires on lap 16. Ryan Blaney also made a stop but was penalized for speeding and had to serve a pass-through penalty.Busch was leading at the completion of lap 55 with a 1.57-second advantage over Logano and was awarded the Stage 2 win.
On newer tires, Truex powered his way from ninth and back into the lead past Busch with 41 laps remaining in the race.
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