Truex Jr.: 'I don't think it's too early to start thinking about it'
DOVER, Del. -- When a single-car team has a driver that has already earned three top-five and 11 top-10 finishes in 12 races and is currently sitting second in the driver standings behind last season's Sprint Cup Series champion, discussions about expanding to a two-car garage begin to stir.
"I don't think it's too early to start thinking about it," Martin Truex Jr. told the media on Friday at Dover International Speedway. "I think that Barney (Visser, team owner) and Joe (Garone, general manager) have been thinking about it for a while. It's just a matter of when is the time right.
"If the situation and everything works out the way they want it to, the way they want it to look I think it would be a good thing. I really like what we have right now. It's working well and it's hard to think about changing something. I think it would be a good thing for the team, and certainly they have the capabilities of making it work, I believe."
But with the Furniture Row Racing driver's success this season, it seems as if the only missing piece of the puzzle is a win. Now with the New Jersey-native being back at his home track and the location of his first Sprint Cup Series win, perhaps a victory is in the cards. This weekend's FedEx 400 benefiting Autism Speaks (May 31, 1 p.m. ET, FOX Sports 1, MRN, SiriusXM) will be the third-straight points race with the same No. 78 Chevrolet that he earned ninth- and fifth-place finishes with at Kansas and Charlotte, respectively.
"I feel like last year we were off quite a bit," Truex said of his 2014 Dover finishes (sixth and seventh place). "We came here and we still ran in the top-10 both races, really had a good run here for us last year. I kind of was looking back at that and thinking about that thinking 'OK imagine what we can do there now.' We will just have to see."