Martin Truex Jr. is not selling memorabilia from his NASCAR career, even though it appeared that way for a short period of time.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt has been brought to my attention some of my trophies were for sale online,\u201d Truex posted on social media. \u201cThese items were sold without my knowledge. Every one of these items holds a special significance to me.\u201d<\/p>\n
Truex made the post after online listings for trophies from his NASCAR career went viral earlier this week. Not only did it bring surprise that Truex would part with such items, such as the shirt and watch presented to him as one of NASCAR\u2019s 75 greatest drivers, and the regular-season championship trophies from 2017 and 2023 (main image), but left others posting on social media that it seemed he truly was done and walking away from all things racing.<\/p>\n
The items were listed on the Race Day Authentics Facebook page. However, an administrator of the page has since posted:<\/p>\n
\u201cEarlier this morning, we received a phone call from Martin Truex\u2019s team regarding the trophies and stuff we purchased late Tuesday evening from an individual. The person we purchased them from worked alongside Martin for over 10 years and sold the trophies to us under the assumption he had been gifted them as he was clearing out his house. We have been in contact with Martin all day and we have a plan in place to get the trophies back to their rightful owner.<\/p>\n
\u201cAs all of our customers and teams we deal with know, we are not the type of people to go out and damage our reputation over something like this. We were lied to by the person we bought them from and we appreciate everybody being understanding with this matter. Thank you to all of our customers who continue to support us through everything and we hope to continue to bring you some more exciting stuff soon!\u201d<\/p>\n
Truex retired after the 2024 season after winning 34 races in the Cup Series and the 2017 championship. He ran the season-opening Daytona 500, but has not entered any additional races.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Martin Truex Jr. is not selling memorabilia from his NASCAR career, even though it appeared that way for…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":172481,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[446],"tags":[49,48,634,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-172480","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nascar","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-nascar","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172480","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=172480"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172480\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/172481"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=172480"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=172480"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=172480"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}