SUPRISE DEAL: Martin Truex jr. nascar driver escape chase Elliott…

After four weeks, avid outdoorsman Martin Truex Jr will have all the downtime to pursue his other hobbies. Whether it be salt-water fishing on a Tracker boat somewhere along the Jersey shore or hunting bucks with his friends in the Northeastern wilderness, very few can disagree that Truex will retire having paid all his dues (in full) to stock car racing. Hence, he probably deserves the respite.

The 2025 NASCAR Cup Series season is still over a month away but you can go ahead and plan for one award recipient come this time next year.

Chase Elliott will win his eighth consecutive NMPA Most Popular Driver Award.

It’s an award that has run in streaks and has been carried by two families for the past 33 years. Bill Elliott, the father of Chase, won the award from 1991-to-2000 and again in 2002 with Dale Earnhardt Sr. posthumously receiving it in 2001. His son, Dale Earnhardt Jr. received it every season from 2003 until his retirement in 2017.

Now Elliott has won it every year since, and he says it’s a testament to his entire family in terms of the contributions to his father and uncle Ernie, a legendary engine builder behind the early success of ‘Awesome Bill from Dawsonville.’

At the same time, Elliott recognizes that he has earned fans independent of those he inherited and he doesn’t take any of them for granted.

“I’m never surprised by their dedication or support,” Elliott said at the NASCAR Awards event earlier in the month. “You know, that’s something I have witnessed firsthand from my dad’s career and now witnessed it for a number of years in my own. So no, I don’t have question their dedication.

Mario Andretti, a true legend, showcased his versatility and speed with victories in Formula One, IndyCar, and NASCAR. He remains the only driver to win the Indianapolis 500, Daytona 500, and the Formula One World Championship.

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