Truex Leads Most Laps, Finishes Seventh

Share: Martin Truex Jr. led the most laps Sunday at New Hampshire Motor Speedway but wound up finishing seventh in the Bad Boy Off Road 300. Last week’s Chase opening winner at Chicagoland Speedway was out front for a race high 141 laps on Sunday and looked as if he’d take another step at sweeping the opening round. But late race cautions and restarts thwarted those aspirations in the final stages of the race, Truex Jr. fell back to eventually come home with the seventh place performance. “Final restart was not good for us,” Truex Jr. said. “Final two really weren’t. You know, we’d raced with Matt so hard for the lead there for such a long time that I just kind of burned my tires up, and then really had trouble …

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