“Easily Could Have Gone Into Him”: Martin Truex Jr Admits Letting Victory Go to Get Into Kyle Busch’s Good Books

This was a victory that was long awaited and long deserved by the RFK Racing team. The race continued for another day and witnessed the neck-to-neck fight between Chris Buescher and Joe Gibbs Racing‘s Martin Truex Jr. Nevertheless, Chris Buescher was able to continue his consecutive winning streak after an emphatic win last week in Richmond and delivered a victory on his team’s home track.

Nonetheless, the race was surely a spectacle to witness as both the drivers were unyielding and raced incessantly. In the final laps where every foot and every millisecond was fought for, the two gentlemen chose to race each other cleanly rather than creating an on-track ruckus. This was apparent when both drivers drove up to each other’s bumpers and doors but chose not to push each other. Furthermore, Truex Jr‘s style of racing seems to have brought back debates that followed Kyle Busch‘s Atlanta interview.

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The victory was surely not an impossible feat to achieve by one the most underrated drivers of the NASCAR grid, Chris Buescher. It seems that the driver has gained the impetus to assert his dominance on the tracks of NASCAR, after winning in Richmond’s short track.

Martin Truex Jr took the lead and won Stage 2 by executing the perfect pit-road strategy. However, it was Buescher who took the lead at lap 133 and clinched on to the position till the end to take the victory home. Truex Jr tried to race door-to-door but Buescher was indomitable. Owing to this, the victor was appreciative of the fact that the JGR driver raced clean and not tried to play foul on the track. In the post-race interview, Buescher expressed, “Martin was very clean with me, I appreciate that.”

Even the runner-up accepted that he could have taken a different route to clinch his fourth victory but tried to play based on merits. In the post-race interview with Frontstretch Media, the driver stated, “We definitively passed the most cars and felt like we had the best car out there. I mean I got beside him and about lost it down into [Turn] one. I was just trying to do all I could to get by him without making contact.

I easily could have gotten into him. I feel like we have had a good respectful relationship on the race track and I wasn’t trying to do anything to wreck him or take a chance to wrecking both of us, second is better than that, so congrats to them.”

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Drawing from the same context, it was apparent that the JGR driver was trying to show his allegiance to his former teammate Kyle Busch’s respect debate, from the media interview at the Atlanta Motor Speedway.

He had expressed how drivers chose to wreck each other out of contention and that they had “completely lost any sense of respect” for each other. “It’s just the problem where everybody takes advantage of everybody as much as they can, we’re all selfish, granted, but there was an etiquette that once did live here. I think Mark started it, Tony [Stewart] lived by it, I think Jeff [Gordon] lived by it, Bobby Labonte, Rusty [Wallace] for the most part, Dale Jarrett for sure, I mean, it did exist. That’s gone.

“They all run hard, they all want a race to crash and you know I tried to make a move and in the old days guys that you are racing they’ll let you go and have that spot and work for it later but this day and age is completely different, so I got a guy who ran on my outside and took the air off,” Busch added.

It was evident in Michigan that the Top 2 certainly do not fit into the category. The display of hard but respectful racing by Truex Jr and Buescher is worthy of appreciation. Well, it is to be seen whether the other drivers will be able to keep their competitive spirit in check with just three races left on the calendar.

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