It’s easy to look at Martin Truex Jr.’s amazing performance last week and dismiss it as a fluke or just one of those weird nights when a team hits on a magic setup and all the stars align for a magical, once-in-a-lifetime performance.
It happens. It happens in racing, and in almost any sport. Everything goes right for one team, nothing goes right for the other(s) and suddenly a route is on.
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That could be what happened at Charlotte Motor Speedway, where Truex led a record 392 of 400 laps — the most anyone has ever led in a Sprint Cup race — to win one of NASCAR’s biggest races.