Martin Truex Jr. won his first NASCAR Cup Series race of the season on a historic day for the series.
It was the first race under the lights at historic Martinsville Speedway, which hosted its first NASCAR race in 1949, and it came on a day when NASCAR made a monumental announcement to ban the Confederate flag.
Truex, the 2017 Cup champion, won the Martinsville grandfather clock on the 0.526-mile paperclip-shaped track — the smallest in NASCAR.
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He also won for the first time with new crew chief Jason Small.
Ryan Blaney, Brad Keselowski, who has two wins this season, and Joey Logano made it a 2-3-4 finish for Team Penske.
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