CONCORD, N.C. — As Martin Truex Jr. lit up the night, sending smoke from a fantastic burnout billowing over the start/finish line, his longtime girlfriend, Sherry Pollex, stood on pit road, recording it all.
To Truex and Pollex, those clouds of fumes and the smell of burning rubber were the sweetest thing they’ve experienced in a long, long time.
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And worth every nauseating whiff of it.
Truex won the biggest race of his career Sunday at Charlotte Motor Speedway, and it couldn’t have come at a better time, or been any sweeter.