Breaking News: Michael Jordan has Officially announced departing from NASCAR and reason why……
Breaking News: Michael Jordan has Officially announced departing from NASCAR and reason why……
Truex would score his first career NASCAR Cup Series win in the Autism Speaks 400 at Dover International Speedway on Monday, June 4, 2007. Truex, driving the No. 1 Chevrolet for DEI, would lead 216 of the race’s 400 laps that day en route to the stirring win.
However, as Dale Earnhardt Jr. departed the team after the 2007 NASCAR Cup Series season, and Dale Earnhardt Inc. went through a slew of mergers and ownership transfers, the good results on track diminished for Truex.
After a 23rd-place finish in the championship standings with the rebranded Earnhardt Ganassi Racing team in 2009, Truex departed the team to drive the No. 56 entry for Michael Waltrip Racing.
From 2010 to 2012, while he didn’t pick up any wins with Michael Waltrip Racing, Truex and the No. 56 team steadily improved year-in and year-out as Truex ranked 22nd in the NASCAR Cup standings in 2010, 18th in 2011, and 11th in 2012, which tied his career-best at the time, which he set in his Sophomore season of 2007.
After much uncertainty, Truex was finally starting to see the light at the end of the tunnel at Michael Waltrip Racing, and the 2013 season was set to be his breakout year.
And it was until it wasn’t.
Truex would pick up his second-career win in a dominating performance at Sonoma Raceway, and at the end of a hard-fought battle for the final Wildcard spot in the NASCAR Cup Series Chase for the Cup, which saw him take the final spot in a tie-breaker over Ryan Newman despite suffering from a broken wrist for a chunk of the year, Truex’s season was flipped upside down on the Monday after the final race of the regular-season.
NASCAR determined that Truex’s Michael Waltrip Racing team conspired between its No. 15 and No. 55 teams to manipulate the outcome of the race at Richmond to ensure that Truex would make it into the NASCAR Cup Series Chase for the Championship.
