TC Daily Pit Stop: Martin Truex Jr. Confirms 2024 will be Last Full-Time NASCAR Cup Season; IndyCar Lands 2025 Media Rights Deal With FOX Sports; Concern Over Iowa's Repave?
TC Daily Pit Stop: Friday, June 14, 2024
Martin Truex, Jr. Confirms Plans to Retire Following 2024 NASCAR Season
Martin Truex Jr. made the news official, the 2024 NASCAR Cup Series season will be his final as a full-time driver in the sport. The 43-year-old former NASCAR Cup Series champion made the announcement in an emotional press conference on Friday afternoon at Iowa Speedway.
Truex, a 34-time NASCAR Cup Series race-winning driver, has been full-time in the NASCAR Cup Series since the 2006 season.
He won the 2017 NASCAR Cup Series championship in an impressive eight-win season with the now-defunct Furniture Row Racing team, and moved to Joe Gibbs Racing in 2019 after FRR shut down. Truex says while he will no longer race full-time in NASCAR that he will remain an ambassador for the Joe Gibbs Racing team, and he didn’t rule out running part-time for the team in the NASCAR Xfinity Series.
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IndyCar, FOX Sports 2025 Media Rights Deal Made Official
On Thursday, the NTT IndyCar Series and FOX Sports announced a new Media Rights Agreement, which will bring the full 17-race 2025 NTT IndyCar Series season to FOX.
Every NTT IndyCar Series event in 2025 will be aired on the main FOX channel, which means IndyCar is the lone premier motorsports series in the United States that will be available for fans without the necessity of a cable subscription.
Additionally, FOX will carry Saturday and Sunday coverage of Indy 500 qualifying on main FOX as well. All other practices and qualifying sessions for the series will be on FS1 or FS2.
The Series also revealed it’s full 2025 schedule, which kicks off on Sunday, March 2 on the Streets of St. Petersburg.
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ATYL: Iowa Speedway’s Partial Repave Raises Concern
Heading into this weekend’s NASCAR Cup and Xfinity Series races at Iowa Speedway, the short track will feature a partially repaved surface on the bottom lane and half in the turns. The awkward semi-repave job has led to slight panic amongst NASCAR competitors.
Taylor Kitchen breaks it all down in a story and special edition of Above the Yellow Line.
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NASCAR (and ARCA) TV Schedule: Friday, June 14, 2024
4:30 PM ET: NASCAR Xfinity practice (USA Network / Peacock)
5:30 PM ET: NASCAR Cup practice (USA Network / Peacock)
8:00 PM ET: ARCA Menards Series race (FS1 / FOX Sports App)