NASCAR and its television partners announced the start times and networks for the season Tuesday, and for the first time since , more Cup Series points events will air on broadcast than cable. Among those races for Fox is the season-opening Daytona on Feb. But how does one balance that hype with the task at hand: winning the championship?. Martin Truex Jr. Hamlin has five wins there and a series-leading average finish of 9. Seven drivers will be competing for three playoffs spots at the Xfinity at Martinsville Speedway in Ridgeway, Virginia.
Today's race will start at 2 p. ET on NBC. Wave 3. Ed Weller traveled all the way from Tacoma, Washington. Race weekends are special for Ed because he and his brother have a more than a decade-long tradition of meeting at one race and track each year. Like Comment Share. Brush and other spinal cord injured got to drive the car which had special hand controls linked to the accelerator and braking.
Known as NeuroGroove RaceDay, the event is a program aligned with Falci Adaptive Biosystems and its cutting edge technology to maximize the impact of bringing mobility to paraplegic, quadriplegic and disabled individuals. The founder of the program is Dr.
Scott Falci, chief neurosurgeon at Craig Hospital in Denver. Furniture Row to assume management of pit crew members: The crews will still train with Joe Gibbs Racing. Sherry Pollex has cancer recurrence: Pollex has had a recurrence - not a surprise, as Pollex has said 80 percent of people with her type of cancer have a recurrence and die within five years.
Without question, Truex knows that his move to Furniture Row Racing in was a great decision. And team owner Barney Visser said Sunday evening that Truex was such a team player that he actually took less money to stay with Furniture Row. He had to change some things in the way he was running his race team. Fox Sports The new contract takes effect starting with the season.
The Denver-based racing organization also announced that Bass Pro Shops and Tracker Boats, which joined Furniture Row Racing as a partner in , will increase its primary sponsorship schedule on Truex's 78 Toyota from 12 to 16 races in , starting with the season-opening Daytona We are grateful that the company is making an additional commitment to our team.
It brings us tremendous pride to see Bass Pro Shops and Tracker Boats prominently displayed and have Martin personally representing our brands. Together with our longstanding friends at Toyota and Furniture Row Racing, we believe our partnership with Martin has a very bright future. We've come a long way in a short period of time.
There are many reasons to feel excited and optimistic about the future of our racing program starting with the commitment from our team owner Barney Visser, the support from Toyota, the technical alliance with Joe Gibbs Racing and the Bass Pro Shops sponsorship.
We definitely have the resources and talent to go after victories and championships. Now Truex, about to start his third season with Furniture Row Racing, has shared his perspective on Pollex's journey in a blog for the Players' Tribune.
Truex begins with the genesis of his relationship with Pollex, who he met 10 years ago at a race track and quickly began dating. They moved in together after just six months. Pollex's cancer diagnosis came in August after months of mysterious pain in her abdomen. The chemotherapy Pollex would finish in January began to take a toll. Even before her diagnosis, the couple had done work in the cancer community with the Martin Truex Jr.
The foundation had primarily focused on research and support of pediatric cancer. Now it has rebranded to also fight ovarian cancer. The Martin Truex Jr. September is the national awareness month for both childhood and ovarian cancers. Over the years, Truex Jr. Then Pollex was diagnosed with stage IV ovarian cancer in August The next year catapulted Truex Jr.
The couple is determined to find less toxic, more effective drug treatments and cures for childhood cancer. Knowing firsthand how radiation, chemotherapy and toxic chemicals decimate a body's system, Martin and Pollex are determined to help find better, safer ways to save the lives of babies, toddlers and teenagers battling cancer. An estimated 22, women will be diagnosed with ovarian cancer this year and 14, will die - a mortality rate of more than 60 percent.
Ovarian cancer is called the "silent killer" because by the time the cancer is discovered, it is often too late to save a life. To symbolize the foundation's new mission, Switch, based in St. Louis, Missouri, created a logo that ties together both the teal color representing ovarian cancer with the gold representing childhood cancer in a ribbon reminiscent of a racetrack, as a nod to Truex Jr. To learn more about ovarian cancer, please visit: www. To learn more about childhood cancer, visit: www.
Foundation, a c 3 founded in , is now dedicated to raising awareness of and funding for childhood and ovarian cancer initiatives. Skip to main content Skip to navigation. McLeod has owned cars and raced in the Cup and Xfinity ranks for several years, with another 39 starts under his belt in the Camping World Truck Series. He started 16 Cup races this year and has 57 career series starts. He ran in 31 Xfinity races in , with a best finish of 11th at Bristol Motor Speedway in the spring.
In a Friday news conference, McLeod indicated he still plans to field three cars in the Xfinity Series next year, keeping that operation separate from the Live Fast organization.
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