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Martin Truex Jr. awaits word on NASCAR penalties, focuses on Vegas race

Martin Truex Jr. is the poster boy for NASCAR punishment in 2016.

Having been made into an outlaw — if not an example — early in the Sprint Cup season, Truex is eager to get issues of recent weeks out of the way. That starts this week at Las vegas, where he and his cohorts have extra motivation to do well.

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Truex and his Furniture Row Racing team were nailed twice in NASCAR inspections for improper roof flaps on their No.