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DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. – Truex marvel still building on racing legacy say; It crazy how fast it happene Ccstill remembers his first visits to Daytona International Speedway, back when his budding career as a young driver in what’s now called the NASCAR Xfinity Series was starting to take shape. Some two decades later, he’s regarded highly among the sport’s elder statesmen.
Truex’s long-running quest for a victory in stock-car racing’s most prestigious race writes another chapter in Monday’s 66th Daytona 500 (4 p.m. ET, FOX, MRN, SiriusXM NASCAR Radio). With Kevin Harvick’s retirement after last year’s campaign, he enters the new NASCAR Cup Series season as the circuit’s oldest driver – just four-plus months older than fellow 43-year-old Denny Hamlin, a teammate of his at Joe Gibbs Racing.
Truex says he marvels at the pace of that progression, from an earlier era in the sport’s history to today.
“It’s very strange. And it’s crazy how fast it happened,” Truex said. “I cannot believe this is my 20th time racing in this race. It just feels like yesterday, I was just co
ming here for the first time. It’s really … it’s nuts how fast time goes by. And it’s also crazy to see just how much has changed since I first started — the names, the cars, the teams — everything is so different now than iwas. Time flies, no doubt about
