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Martin Truex Jr. wins at Sonoma Raceway for the fourth-time in his career, while several of his Toyota teammates stumble towards the finish.

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49 comments

JackCSports June 12, 2023 at 1:52 am

Truex definitely is not retiring this year

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SmokieInthePot June 12, 2023 at 1:58 am

Imagine him winning the championship then still retiring.

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JackCSports June 12, 2023 at 2:00 am

@SmokieInthePot honestly
That would be a badass way to go out

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WYZ MotorSport June 12, 2023 at 2:02 am

I mean we said the same thing about Carl Edwards, so who knows

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DIY Chad 726 June 12, 2023 at 2:46 am

Absolutely nobody woulda said that Carl would have retired after the season in which he retired in also…….but we all know exactly what happened now don’t we……..

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Paul Clayborn June 12, 2023 at 1:52 am

Glad to see MTJ get another win.

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Ian Fisher June 12, 2023 at 3:57 am

This certainly feels like MTJ and KFB are on a 2023 redemption tour.

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PigeonGamer June 12, 2023 at 1:53 am

Eric please give JJ Yeley a review next week when you’re ranking all the drivers! He’s been doing so well and id love to hear what you think.

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Rook June 12, 2023 at 4:25 am

I agree

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LB Vlogs June 12, 2023 at 3:25 pm

agreed

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Gigachad June 12, 2023 at 1:53 am

Drivers trying not to spin in the last laps: challenge inpossible

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DIY Chad 726 June 12, 2023 at 2:47 am

Who spun on the last lap today??

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pillsher June 12, 2023 at 3:49 am

@DIY Chad 726 I think Blaney did twice

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Big Smoke June 12, 2023 at 5:22 am

@DIY Chad 726laney, Bilicki, and Almirola, not exactly last lap, but towards the end I think

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Timechanger ! June 12, 2023 at 5:23 am

@pillsher more like blaney got spun out twice

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Adam Harrison June 12, 2023 at 1:54 am

Love Truex’s resurgence! Happy for him!

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TonyStewartfan June 12, 2023 at 1:54 am

Buescher with another great run at. Sonoma he has always been good at the chute

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Louis J June 12, 2023 at 2:00 am

I remember playing NASCAR video games when I was a kid, and the “two road courses”, were throw away races for me and I wanted to focus on the traditional oval track racing. Lol

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C.Youngberg June 12, 2023 at 2:48 am

I feel ya on Sonoma. I never looked forward to that one. Watkins, however, was always fun across multiple games.

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Joe June 12, 2023 at 3:09 am

I always loved, and still love Watkins Glen. I tried really hard at those tracks and once I figured it out, I was racing in Forza and Formula 1 games much better. If you can wheel a stock car around turns, you can kill it in a car designed for it.

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michael Pluska June 12, 2023 at 5:00 am

The field used to be full of road course ringers… And was exciting to watch other drivers from another series compete amongst each other!

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UncannyEXP June 12, 2023 at 2:04 pm

I always hated Sears Point in NASCAR 99 lol

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Oscar Jimenez Sr. June 12, 2023 at 2:04 am

Truex could race at 50 in 2030 due to how dominate he was today

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Ian Fisher June 12, 2023 at 4:03 am

I’m here for it. Might need to bring back the number 6 Viagra car for 50 y/o MTJ.

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Stock Racing Unlimited June 12, 2023 at 5:21 am

​@Ian Fisher .

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NR88 June 12, 2023 at 2:05 am

The Pinty’s series is proof that you don’t need lots of technology to have great racing. Their road course and short track racing is miles better than the cup series.

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Luna Melody June 12, 2023 at 2:12 am

Truex is on a role. But give BIG kudos for Chastain, Elliot, McDowell, Almendinger, and Buescher for making top 10.

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SMunger June 12, 2023 at 3:58 am

McDowell was a top 5 contender all day, was super hyped to see that out of him and that team!

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Luna Melody June 12, 2023 at 4:01 am

@SMunger Agreed. McDowell could possibly be a championship 4 contender in future seasons.

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SMunger June 12, 2023 at 4:25 am

@Luna Melody as much as I am a McDowell fan, that’s definitely a stretch. If he ever leaves Front Row for someone like Hendrick (extremely unlikely I’m just saying hypothetically) then I suppose it’s possible, but if he stays in the 34 maybe he can get another win or 2 before he eventually retires someday. But I would love to see McDowell make a playoff run and somehow make it out of the round of 16, that’d be incredible!

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Luna Melody June 12, 2023 at 4:41 am

@SMunger I said future seasons for a reason. I don’t think he has all the tools yet, but give it a couple years and we could see some potential.

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SMunger June 12, 2023 at 4:45 am

@Luna Melody I mean his rookie year was 2008, he really doesn’t have a whole lot of time left to make that kind of run. For him it’s getting really close to be a case of now or never for him. I hope he can one day have a late career bloom/boost in performance. He’s 38 now, so he maybe has 5-6 more competitive years based on how others have aged as drivers. Not even trying to argue with you just trying to keep it realistic

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Bear Marsh June 12, 2023 at 2:13 am

Glad to see Aric Almirola won the Xfinity race on Saturday. Congrats MTJ. Also congrats to garage 56 for doing well in Le Mans.

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Sam Ruth June 12, 2023 at 2:13 am

I want more Jamie Mac in the fox booth

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Ian Fisher June 12, 2023 at 4:05 am

I honestly think fox would bring JamieMac in full-time if they didn’t lock up harvick. Everybody loves Harvick but McMurray has received so much positive feedback.

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A Teddy Bear June 12, 2023 at 2:17 am

Only negative was the car, like a few drivers said after that it’s so close. Really after Truex and maybe Busch, there was no differentiation between 3rd and about 12th.

But the race itself was fine. Natural flow and the best car won.

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Joshua Mathews June 12, 2023 at 5:33 am

The best car didn’t win Hamlin had the best car

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Chandler韬 June 12, 2023 at 2:21 am

What’s good about Sonoma without stage break is the race was short, under 3 hours. Kept me refreshed even after the race.

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Jimmie Adams June 12, 2023 at 2:58 am

It was nice to be able to make it home from the track before dinner time

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William James June 12, 2023 at 3:16 am

I think they should run all races like this, you still get stage points and playoff points u just keep racing

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John Clark June 12, 2023 at 9:39 am

Except for all the commercials…

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Chandler韬 June 12, 2023 at 11:40 am

@William James They REALLY should

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Prime Sports Network June 12, 2023 at 12:13 pm

And what stinks about Sonoma is how boring the racing has been there lately. It’s about the most boring road course we have now.

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William James June 12, 2023 at 2:23 am

Kyle’s car was highly competitive in the 2nd half of the race

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T. Rogers June 12, 2023 at 2:39 am

Congrats MTJ…I am so glad that Fox is through with NASCAR Racing this year…I have never view so many commercials in a race and also during the racing. BTW there are more than just 5 to 7 people racing. I do miss ABC Wide World of Sport..Eric: Nobody has enough power to come off the corners strong..Dull racing.

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Zare Jonathan HQ June 12, 2023 at 2:43 am

Second year of attending the Sonoma race in person . . . my home track, the only track I can go to – I’ll always love it. Massive props to Truex, he absolutely deserved this. I wish Suarez had been better, but he still has some more road courses to try his hand at. Great day!

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dakotafire24 June 12, 2023 at 2:45 am

i thought it was a pretty good nostalgic road course race without stage cautions, the strategy was interesting, there was comers and goers mid pack with tire stategy and the cautions shook things up unexpectedly

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Oly911 June 12, 2023 at 5:53 am

Totally agree and no hokey green white finish!

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number40Fan June 12, 2023 at 4:14 am

That commercial event with breaks for racing was appauling. Hopefully NBC will show a race with commercial breaks.

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