Martin Truex Jr. draws on Loudon in Crayon 301 domination

Monday Night Football and Monday Night RAW have nothing on Monday Afternoon Martin Truex Jr.

After winning a rain-delayed Dover race on Monday, 1 May, Truex repeated the feat on Monday, 17 July, at sister track New Hampshire Motor Speedway. He put on a masterclass by leading 254 of 301 laps to notch his first victory at a track regarded as one of his home circuits (though it was still a long drive from his hometown in New Jersey).

“I think it’s no secret that I’ve been after this one for a long time,” said Truex. “It’s always been one that I wanted so bad, and maybe I think too bad at times.

“But it was well worth the wait to be able to do it here today finally, take home the lobster and put another win at Loudon with the name Truex on it. Very special.”

Joe Gibbs Racing also dominated Saturday’s Xfinity Series race at Loudon as John Hunter Nemechek won while he, Sammy Smith, and Joe Graf Jr. conbined to lead 163 of 200 laps. In total, along with Christopher Bell‘s single lap led on Monday, JGR drivers had 418 laps in first at Loudon of a possible 507.

Despite being the defending winner and pole winner, Bell spun with ten laps remaining. The same fate befell JGR alumni Kyle Busch, who had an abysmal weekend as he crashed in qualifying before being relegated to a last-place finish for yet another wreck at the end of Stage #1, and Aric Almirola, a former Loudon winner who had his best qualifying run before crashing on lap 170.

Race results

Finish	Start	Number	Driver	Team	Manufacturer	Laps	Status
1	2	19	Martin Truex Jr.	Joe Gibbs Racing	Toyota	301	Running
2	4	22	Joey Logano	Team Penske	Ford	301	Running
3	15	5	Kyle Larson	Hendrick Motorsports	Chevrolet	301	Running
4	13	4	Kevin Harvick	Stewart-Haas Racing	Ford	301	Running
5	9	6	Brad Keselowski	RFK Racing	Ford	301	Running
6	6	45	Tyler Reddick	23XI Racing	Toyota	301	Running
7	20	11	Denny Hamlin	Joe Gibbs Racing	Toyota	301	Running
8	8	23	Bubba Wallace	23XI Racing	Toyota	301	Running
9	11	3	Austin Dillon	Richard Childress Racing	Chevrolet	301	Running
10	27	14	Chase Briscoe	Stewart-Haas Racing	Ford	301	Running
11	30	43	Erik Jones	Legacy Motor Club	Chevrolet	301	Running
12	18	9	Chase Elliott	Hendrick Motorsports	Chevrolet	301	Running
13	17	34	Michael McDowell	Front Row Motorsports	Ford	301	Running
14	25	48	Alex Bowman	Hendrick Motorsports	Chevrolet	301	Running
15	26	17	Chris Buescher	RFK Racing	Ford	301	Running
16	12	99	Daniel Suárez	Trackhouse Racing Team	Chevrolet	301	Running
17	19	31	Justin Haley	Kaulig Racing	Chevrolet	301	Running
18	16	47	Ricky Stenhouse Jr.	JTG Daugherty Racing	Chevrolet	301	Running
19	14	16	A.J. Allmendinger	Kaulig Racing	Chevrolet	301	Running
20	28	21	Harrison Burton	Wood Brothers Racing	Ford	301	Running
21	23	38	Todd Gilliland	Front Row Motorsports	Ford	301	Running
22	5	12	Ryan Blaney	Team Penske	Ford	301	Running
23	31	1	Ross Chastain	Trackhouse Racing Team	Chevrolet	301	Running
24	7	24	William Byron	Hendrick Motorsports	Chevrolet	301	Running
25	22	2	Austin Cindric	Team Penske	Ford	301	Running
26	35	77	Ty Dillon	Spire Motorsports	Chevrolet	301	Running
27	36	54	Ty Gibbs	Joe Gibbs Racing	Toyota	301	Running
28	21	41	Ryan Preece	Stewart-Haas Racing	Ford	300	Running
29	1	20	Christopher Bell	Joe Gibbs Racing	Toyota	299	Running
30	33	15	Ryan Newman	Rick Ware Racing	Ford	299	Running
31	32	78	B.J. McLeod	Live Fast Motorsports	Chevrolet	295	Running
32	29	42	Noah Gragson	Legacy Motor Club	Chevrolet	268	Accident
33	24	7	Corey LaJoie	Spire Motorsports	Chevrolet	176	Running
34	3	10	Aric Almirola	Stewart-Haas Racing	Ford	168	Accident
35	34	51	Cole Custer*	Rick Ware Racing	Ford	130	Accident
36	10	8	Kyle Busch	Richard Childress Racing	Chevrolet	71	Accident

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* – Ineligible for points