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• TRUEX AT LAS VEGAS: Martin Truex has claimed one victory (2017), four top-five finishes and six top-10s in 14 career Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series (MENCS) starts at Las Vegas Motor Speedway. The 2017 series champion has three consecutive top-five finishes at the track and four top-fives in his past five starts at Las Vegas dating back to 2015. Truex led a race-high 96 laps on his way to a third-place finish in the series’ most recent Las Vegas race last September.
• STARTING STRONG: Truex has started 12^th or better in his past nine starts at Las Vegas Motor Speedway going back to 2011. Last season, he started fourth in the spring and 10^th in the September race at the track.
• ATLANTA RECAP: Last Sunday at Atlanta Motor Speedway, Truex started ninth and ran inside the top 10 throughout the 500-mile race on his way to a second-place finish. According to NASCAR loop data from the race, Truex led all drivers in average running position (3.71), driver rating (127.4), fastest early in a run, fastest on restarts, green flag speed and laps in the top 15
• 1.5-MILE MOMENTUM: Going back to the start of the 2017 season, Truex has earned eight victories, 19 top-five finishes and 22 top-10s in the past 23 races on 1.5-mile tracks. The Mayetta, N.J. native led 1,446 laps total across those races.
• BASS PRO SHOPS: Bass Pro Shops will be featured as primary sponsor of the No. 19 Camry this Sunday in Las Vegas. A longtime supporter of Truex, Bass Pro Shops is North America’s premier outdoor and conservation company. Founded in 1972 when avid young angler Johnny Morris. began selling tackle out of his father’s liquor store in Springfield, Missouri. Today the company provides customers with unmatched offerings spanning premier destination retail, outdoor equipment manufacturing, world-class resort destinations and more.
• JGR AT LAS VEGAS: Joe Gibbs Racing has earned a pair of MENCS wins at Las Vegas Motor Speedway. In 64 combined starts, the organization owns 14 top-five finishes and 28 top-10s.
• TUNE IN: Coverage of this weekend’s race at Las Vegas Motor Speedway begins Sunday at 3:30 p.m. ET on FOX, PRN Radio and Sirius XM NASCAR.

Martin Truex Jr., Driver of the No. 19 Bass Pro Shops Toyota Camry

• “From what I watched of the Vegas test last month, it’s going to be a little bit hairy and crazy. It definitely looked like the leader had a big advantage. I’m a little worried about that, but it looked like the racing throughout the pack was pretty good. Hopefully we’ll be in good shape and be the leader a lot of the time because that’s where I feel like you want to be. That’s going to take a lot of execution – pit road, pit stops, restarts, all those things. It’s going to be interesting That’s another thing we haven’t seen is double-file restarts with the new package and what does that look like. How long does the field stay two by two? Does it go 10, 15, 20 laps or does it string out fairly quickly? All the testing we’ve done so far has been guys just go out there, they line up and they get going. It hasn’t been competition. We really haven’t seen the full effect of what we’re going to see yet.”

Truex NASCAR Cup Series Stats at Las Vegas Motor Speedway

Truex 2019 NASCAR Cup Series Season Stats

Truex NASCAR Cup Series Career Stats

Truex 2019 NASCAR Cup Series Race-By-Race Stats

Truex NASCAR Cup Series History at Las Vegas Motor Speedway

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