RYAN TRUEX TOP TOYOTA IN TEXAS
Second top-10 in three starts this season for the New Jersey-native
FORT WORTH (April 13, 2024) – Ryan Truex led Toyota with a seventh-place finish at Texas Motor Speedway on Saturday afternoon.
Although Chandler Smith’s top-10 streak ended with a 15th-place finish, the Joe Gibbs Racing driver continues to lead the point standings heading into next weekend’s race at Talladega Superspeedway
Toyota Racing Post-Race Recap
NASCAR Xfinity Series
Texas Motor Speedway
Race 8 of 33 – 300 miles, 200 laps
TOYOTA FINISHING POSITIONS
1st, Sam Mayer*
2nd, Ryan Sieg*
3rd, Justin Allgaier*
4th, AJ Allmendinger*
5th, Cole Custer*
7th, RYAN TRUEX
11th, TAYLOR GRAY
15th, CHANDLER SMITH
17th, COREY HEIM
19th, SHELDON CREED
*non-Toyota driver
TOYOTA QUOTES
RYAN TRUEX, No. 20 The Toyota Gazoo Racing Toyota GR Supra, Joe Gibbs Racing
Finishing Position: 7th
Great late race charge to finish with a top-10. Can you tell us about your race?
“Started off really good. I felt like we were a top-three car. You just cannot pass – at all. As soon as the track moves up – the preferred lane moves up to the top – nobody could pass. You are just stuck in dirty air, so I just rode in fifth. I tried to pass somebody and ended up sixth in stage one. At the end of the race there, I just didn’t even try to pass him, because I knew if I did, I was just going to get freight trained. Our GR Supra was really good. I think we were probably an adjustment away from being able to win. I just got too high in (turns) three and four and got in the residual junk they have up there, and I just lost all of my grip and fenced it. Obviously, my fault, and I feel really bad about it because this car deserves to be winning races, not running seventh, but I’m glad we at least got lucky and had a good restart there at the end.”
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