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More than racing’s on Truex’s mind
Fiancee dealing with serious health matters
is not surprising that she is once again battling the disease, which has an 85 percent recurrence rate.
“Thank you for all the well wishes. I’ll be back at the track soon,” Pollex tweeted after the race.
Truex made sure to give Sherry a shout-out during his media session.
“I got to say hi to Sherry back home,” he said. “She didn’t make it this weekend, so, ‘I love you babe.’ And all these awesome fans, thank you guys so much for coming out. I hope they enjoyed it and that was a whole lot of fun.”
Later on, he elaborated on the circumstances.
“We found out a while ago about (the recurrence),” Truex said Saturday night in a TV interview with the NBC NASCAR crew.
“She went in this weekend to have some surgery done. Everything went as planned. I’m going to bring her home tomorrow. (I’m) excited to see her, and everything is going great.”
By Sunday evening, Pollex tweeted a Vine of Truex pushing her in a wheelchair as the couple left the hospital.
Truex is having a career year, although that is hardly surprising. He finished fourth in the standings in 2015 and 11th last year and seems prepped to make another championship run.
But it all circles back to Sherry.
“Sherry is everything to me,” Truex said on NBC. “We do everything together. She’s my best friend.
“I’m so proud of the person she is and the inspiration she’s been to so many people, including myself.”
Brad Keselowski isn’t happy with his ride.
Don’t blame his No. 2 Ford. It’s all about the system, setup and aerodynamic characteristics of the cars.
“The way this car is, it needs a lot more help than (working on track surfaces),” Keselowski said after wrecking in Kentucky in a two-car tango with Johnson. “It’s a poorly designed car. At tracks like this, it’s very difficult to put on the show we want to put on for our fans.
“You do what you can to gouge and claw on the restarts to get everything you can. You have to put yourself in bad situations to do that, and that’s where we were . ... It’s time to design a new car that is worthy of this sport and the show it deserves to put on for its fans.”
Keselowski made contact with Johnson on Lap 87, bouncing into the wall and taking both cars out of the race. Keselowski took to Twitter to explain his frustration in greater detail.
He definitely has allies. What say you, Mr. Johnson?
“There’s just an environment created with this style of racing that you’ve got to get everything you can on a restart,” Johnson said. “The old days of pointing someone by or maybe letting somebody go until your tires came in are long gone. All of this breeds a lot of cautions.”
We will see if all the noise from two of the best in the business breeds modifications to the cars next season.
Joe Gibbs Racing announced Tuesday that Erik Jones will drive its No. 20 Toyota next season, replacing Matt Kenseth, who had held that seat since 2013 but whose contract expires after this season.
Kenseth, 45, won the Cup season title in 2003, has six top-10 finishes this season and is listed 16th in the standings. Jones, 21, has been among the top 10 five times and is in 18th, but he is also on a one-year loaner contract to Gibbs’ sister team, Furniture Row Racing, and Gibbs needed a spot for Jones in 2018.