Martin Truex Jr., who has been speculated as a candidate for every driver opening in the Sprint Cup garage, isn’t going anywhere.
The 28-year-old New Jersey native has agreed in principle to a two-year deal that will keep him at Dale Earnhardt Inc. through the 2010 season, multiple sources close to the situation told ESPN.com on Saturday at Indianapolis Motor Speedway.
Sources said an official announcement is expected any day, and that details with multiple sponsors remain to be finalized.
Truex, asked if he has an agreement, said: “We’re getting there, yeah. Things are going well right. I’m pretty happy. I just want to think about racing this weekend.”
The deal ends speculation that Truex will leave the company he has been with since making the move from Dale Earnhardt Jr.’s Nationwide Series team in 2004.
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Well there goes his career!!
And i thought he had a brain, i guess i was wrong about that.
I agree with George!!! I wouldn’t drive for that bitch!!!!
Man, he is making a big mistake.
Maybe Martin knows something we don’t, or maybe he is Bat S*** Insane lol
Ugh, I hoped he wouldn’t do this!!!!
Go to nascar.com Truex denies this report.
http://www.nascar.com/2008/news/headlines/cup/07/26/mtruex.dei.deal.not.done/index.html
Wow, Martin! You chose to be the #1 driver at the TEI Museum. What’s up with that? Hopefully they gave you some stock/ ownership plan. No, the black widow wouldn’t even do that for family. So what really happened?
After reading what Truex said i dont think he will be talking to that reporter again anytime soon.
Did he or did he not sign? Truex is peed off, but why? Did he say something he thought was off the record or is he mad because the other offers are not as good as he had hoped?
Both him and John Story said he has not signed yet.
gigolo george wrote:
I think the problem is almost the same kind of thing that happened with Shrub at HMS. 99% of the drivers today all have agents and about 9% of those drivers are actually involved in their contract negotiations with their agents.
Fisha695 wrote:
In the story on nascar.com they said that Truex was involved in every meeting so this might be a little differant then the thing with Shrub but i honestly think this reporter played a hunch and got it wrong or did he?
Martin is not staying at DEI
Well I hope he doesn’t,, He is to good of a driver to stay at TEI.
I really hope he goes with Dale Jr.