Martin Truex Jr confirms return to Joe Gibbs Racing
Martin Truex Jr. confirmed Saturday he will return to Joe Gibbs Racing in the 2024 NASCAR Cup Series season.
Rumors surrounded Truex’s future and the possibility of his retirement. However, the 2017 Cup Series champion confirmed in the Michigan International Speedway media center he is coming back.
Truex will race the JGR No. 19 Toyota as a teammate to Ty Gibbs and Christopher Bell.
JGR and Toyota expect Denny Hamlin will also return. However, the team hasn’t confirmed that yet.
Martin Truex Jr. holds the regular-season championship points lead by 39 points over Hamlin. Truex has three wins, eight top-5 finishes, 12 top-10s and 781 laps led with a series-best average finish of 11.7.
Truex joined JGR in 2019. Since then, they have earned 15 wins, 54 top-5s and 94 top-10s in 166 races. They also made the Championship Four and finished second in points in 2019 and 2021.
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Jonathan Fjeld is the co-owner of the The Racing Experts, LLC. He has been with TRE since 2010.
A Twin Valley, MN, native, Fjeld became a motorsports fan at just three years old (first race was the 2002 Pennsylvania 500). He worked as a contributor and writer for TRE from 2010-18. Since then, he has stepped up and covered 24 NASCAR race weekends and taken on a larger role with TRE. He became the co-owner and managing editor in 2023 and has guided the site to massive growth in that time.
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