Cousin to Martin Truex Jr, Curtis as the natural born talent to drive race cars. Truex is still cutting his teeth in the grass roots division of late models but is learning quickly.
Curtis is a very control driver on the track with the fire of what JR Motorsports stands for when it comes down to crunch time. He is not the best qualifer but does know how to get through traffic quite well.
With solid horsepower, Truex does show the ability to get off the corner quite well, perhaps from the modified experience, but tends to be cautious driving in. Perhaps this is because he is not 17 anymore and understands how to keep a car clean.
Curtis Truex Jr., a Mayetta, N.J., native, will once again drive the No. 73 R&B Chevrolet late model stock car for owner Dale Earnhardt Jr. at tracks across the Southeast in 2007. Truex joined JR Motorsports in 2006 to drive one of the team’s late model stock cars. In his debut race with the team at Caraway Speedway in Asheboro, N.C., he started 14th and finished sixth. During the season he compiled two top fives and eight top 10s.Truex began racing when he was 10 years old, following in the footsteps of his dad and uncles who raced open-wheel asphalt modifieds at local short tracks.
He started competing in go-karts at local tracks and raced at that level until he was 17, collecting a number of wins. When he turned 18 he joined his dad and uncles in the open-wheel modifieds at Wall Township Speedway. He has collected a total of seven feature wins there. He finished fifth at New Smyrna Speedway in the 38th Annual World Series of Asphalt Stock Car Racing’s Ritchie Evans Memorial 100 in 2004. The next year he captured the win in the 46th Garden State Classic at Wall Township Speedway.
In 2006, he followed in his cousin Martin Truex Jr.’s footsteps and moved down to Mooresville, N.C., to take on the stock car racing world. R&B is a fleet transport refinishing company headquartered in Clearwater, Fla. They are the first sponsor to adorn the No. 73 JR Motorsports late model stock car. “We are proud to associate ourselves with an organization like JR Motorsports,” said Ray Maxwell, President of R&B. “To become the very first sponsor for such a revered part of that company is a special distinction.
