{"id":18015,"date":"2015-02-25T01:38:00","date_gmt":"2015-02-25T06:38:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/?p=18015"},"modified":"2015-02-25T00:52:10","modified_gmt":"2015-02-25T05:52:10","slug":"truex-jr-furniture-row-racing-march-to-atlanta-carrying-daytona-momentum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/2015\/02\/truex-jr-furniture-row-racing-march-to-atlanta-carrying-daytona-momentum\/","title":{"rendered":"Truex Jr., Furniture Row Racing March to Atlanta Carrying Daytona Momentum"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"hfgjfgjf\"<\/a>DENVER, Colo. (Feb. 24, 2015) — Martin Truex Jr. will take his Daytona Speedweeks momentum to one of his favorite tracks \u2013 Atlanta Motor Speedway \u2013 for Sunday\u2019s Folds of Honor QuikTrip 400, the second of 36 Sprint Cup Series races of the season.<\/p>\n

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The 34-year-old Furniture Row Racing driver contended for Sunday’s Daytona 500 win before slipping to eighth place in the closing green-white-checkered finish. The result was his third top-10 during Speedweeks. He also drove his Furniture Row\/Denver Mattress Chevrolet to finishes of second in the Sprint Unlimited (Feb. 14) and fifth in the Budweiser Duel qualifying race (Feb. 19).<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Daytona performance isn\u2019t a guarantee that we\u2019ll run real good all season long,\u201d said Truex. \u201cBut with the things we did over the winter, the testing we did towards the end of last year, the momentum we gained and the team changes we made, I feel really good about our stuff and what we\u2019re going to do. We\u2019ll have to see how we do at Atlanta. We\u2019re looking forward to going there. It\u2019s one of my favorite tracks and we\u2019ll see if we can\u2019t come out of there about seven spots better.\u201d<\/p>\n

There were a number of positive signs during the 10 days in Daytona for the single-car Furniture Row Racing team, based in Denver, Colo.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt just seems everything clicked right off the bat,\u201d noted Truex. \u201cThe communications with our new crew chief Cole Pearn were excellent and the guys both on the road and back at the Denver shop did a meticulous job in providing me with awesome race cars. We\u2019re feeling really good right now and that\u2019s always the way you want to kick off a new season.\u201d<\/p>\n

Truex is ranked eighth in driver points, his highest position since joining Furniture Row Racing following the 2013 season.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe all know that one eighth-place finish doesn\u2019t make a season,\u201d stated Truex. \u201cWe had the worst possible start last year, finishing dead last (43 rd) in the Daytona 500. So coming into a race knowing that we\u2019re on target to accomplish our goal of making the Chase has me feeling so much better than last year at this time.\u201d<\/p>\n

With the superspeedway cars now parked at the team\u2019s Denver, Colorado shop, Truex is looking forward to seeing how the downforce car will perform at the high-speed 1.54-mile Atlanta oval.<\/p>\n

\u201cI am definitely excited to get to Atlanta and to a track where it\u2019s a little more in your hands,\u201d explained Truex. \u201cWe\u2019ll have a good idea where we stand during Thursday\u2019s test session. I am feeling positive about the team and about the 2015 season.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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