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After Pearn realized that the team had made drastic changes to the chassis between the 2013 and 2014 seasons, he got to work on improving the overall product that Furniture Row Racing was putting on the track in the closing months of the 2014 season.
As they unloaded the No. 78 car from the hauler in Daytona the following February, Truex and Pearn were ready for battle.
Truex would erupt to record 14 top-10 finishes in the season’s opening 15 races, and he would pick up career win No. 3 at Pocono Raceway, the 14th stop on the schedule that season. While Truex and Pearn wouldn’t find victory lane again that season, they would string together an impressive run of consistency, which would result in them making it into the Championship 4 of the NASCAR Cup Series Playoffs.
12 wins, and two seasons later, Truex finally reached the mountain top in the NASCAR Cup Series as he took home the 2017 NASCAR Cup Series championship with an electric eight-win season, which was capped off by a win in the NASCAR Cup Series Championship Race at Homestead-Miami Speedway.
The man, who looked like his career was over just three years earlier, had somehow, someway, battled back to realize the potential that everyone expected he had when he blasted onto the NASCAR Busch Series scene driving for Dale Earnhardt Jr. in 2004.
“Some things are meant to be, and there is something to be said about luck and fate and putting yourself in the right position and being a good person, and I believe that that’s what we’ve seen here tonight,” Truex said in his champion’s press conference after celebrating in victory lane at Homestead.
In what was an emotional exit for Furniture Row Racing, Truex finished runner-up to Joey Logano in the 2018 NASCAR Cup Series championship standings. Due to a lack of sponsorship, and increasing costs related to putting out a championship-contending effort, Visser announced mid-season that he would need to pull the plug on his race team at season’s end, and Truex was once again left wondering what was next.
But he wasn’t left wondering for very long as Joe Gibbs Racing, a team that had a technical alliance with Furniture Row Racing, swooped in and took Truex and Pearn under their wing for the 2019 season.
“You know, to go from a two-race winner to a 19-race winner, a championship, fourth in points, a second in points, it’s just been amazing,” Truex said following his final race with Furniture Row Racing. “Everything about it has been great. Everything about it has been the best thing I’ve ever been a part of. You know, I feel good about my future and going to a great place, and I know we’ll have more success.
