Martin Truex Jr. uncertain if he will be at Furniture Row in 2019

 

Add Martin Truex Jr. to a list of drivers who are uncertain about whether or not they have a ride for the 2019 Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series season.

Rumors have begin swirling within the NASCAR garage about the status of Truex in addition to Kurt Busch and Jamie McMurray for the 2019 season.

“Right now, we need sponsorship. That’s as simple as it gets. It’s hard to say. Is there a 50 percent chance we get that in the next couple of weeks? Or is there a 100 percent chance. Or is there 2 percent? I don’t know. I can tell you that everything really is based upon that.”

Truex and Furniture Row Racing surprised NASCAR by winning the 2017 MENCS championship but even with four wins this season Truex acknowledged he was unsure of his status for 2019.

“I’m starting to hear rumors,” he said. “That’s kind of how it works in this sport. I’ve been in this position before. I’ve got a great team. Barney has done a lot for my career. It’s something we all want to keep going and just need a little bit of time to let the dominoes fall into place and see if we can keep it going. And if not, I have to figure it out from there.”

“The biggest thing for us as a group (is) we’ve kind of been in this situation before,” he said. “Really the past couple of seasons, we’ve been at a tipping point at some point in time, and we’ve been just been able to focus on doing our jobs.

“We always feel like that at the end of the day, if we do our jobs and we do them well, and we’re winning races, that’s our best opportunity to keep things going the way they are. I think that’s not going to change. That’s what we have to do. The commitments people made to us are through the end of the season. No matter what happens, this is a professional sport, and we need to hold up our end of the deal, and the guys understand that. We’re going to fight as hard as we can no matter what next year looks like and try to repeat what we did last year.”

John Boarman
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