The 2018 season was an emotional one for Martin Truex Jr.
Last year’s championship was a fairy tale for a team located in Denver, Colorado - far from NASCAR’s epicenter in North Carolina.
This season was much different. Furniture Row Racing found out midseason that its primary sponsor would not return after this year, which caused car owner Barney Visser to decide to shut down the team after the final race.
With that looming closure came the inevitable questions of if the No. 78 team would lose focus.
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Then came late-race incidents at the Charlotte Roval and Martinsville when Truex was knocked out of the lead on the final corner by Jimmie Johnson and Joey Logano respectively.
“They just didn’t have that short run speed to beat the 22 (of Logano at Miami), but they put up a heck of a fight,” NASCAR America analyst Parker Kligerman said on Monday’s edition of the show. “They did all of this under the cloud of knowing that that organization was shutting down at the end of this last race.”
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