NASCAR SPRINT CUP SERIES
AXALTA ‘WE PAINT WINNERS’ 400
POCONO RACEWAY
TEAM CHEVY POST RACE NOTES AND QUOTES
JUNE 7, 2015
MARTIN TRUEX, JR., NO. 78 FURNITURE ROW/VISSER PRECISION CHEVROLET SS – RACE WINNER
TELL US THE EMOTIONS AND THE FEELINGS RIGHT NOW. IT HAS BEEN 69 RACES BUT MOST IMPORTANTLY SO DOMINATE SO MANY TIMES THIS YEAR – NOW IN VICTORY LANE:
“Well we finally got it. That is all I can say we finally got it. We have had a good run. We have had a great season. We have had everything it has taken to win races we just hadn’t got it done yet. I felt like we had the best car a few times today. I’m not sure we were. The No. 4 (Kevin Harvick) was really good at times and we were really good. It just takes a lot of things to go your way to pull these things together. Just can’t thank all my guys enough, Barney Visser, everybody at Furniture Row, everybody back in Denver for working so hard. This is a brand new racecar and they have been working really hard lately. Just proud of them and thankful to drive great racecars.”
YOU GAVE THE TEAM A LOT OF CREDIT, BUT THOSE RESTARTS THEY ARE SO CRITICAL WHAT WAS THE DIFFERENCE THOSE LAST COUPLE OF RESTARTS THAT PULLED YOU AWAY SO MUCH?
“Yeah, the difference was just the one real good one Joey (Logano) was behind me and gave me a good shot. I just tried to mix it up. I think we picked the right gear ratio for restarts here and that is critical. That was a bit of an advantage and then just having the right guys behind us. Just mixing it up so they weren’t sure what I was going to do next.”
THE ROLLER COASTER THAT YOU HAVE BEEN ON SINCE THAT LAST VICTORY IN 2013 HAS BEEN WELL DOCUMENTED WITH LEAVING MWR, WHAT YOUR GIRLFRIEND SHERRY (POLLEX) HAS BEEN THROUGH. I KNOW YOU GUYS HAVE HAD TIME TO THINK ABOUT THE EMOTIONS OF THIS MOMENT. ARE THEY AS GOOD AS YOU DREAMED?
“It never gets any better than this. It takes time to heal things especially with what Sherry and I went through. This just kind of makes you forget all about it. Tomorrow we are still going back to normal life and we always try to remember that and be ourselves and remember why we are here. And how thankful we are to be here and how lucky we are to be doing this. I just feel super blessed to be with this group of guys. They are super impressive and just proud to drive cars for them and proud Sherry is here healthy. She is as excited as I am and everything is going well for her.”
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