Ryan Truex Confident Heading into NHMS

By Seth Eggert, NASCAR Correspondent

For the first time since last season, Ryan Truex will compete in back-to-back races in the NASCAR Xfinity Series.

The Mayetta, NJ native will make his 75^th career Xfinity start in the JR Motorsports No. 8 Bar Harbor Chevrolet Camaro SS. Truex enters Roxor 200 at New Hampshire Motor Speedway after an eighth-place run at Kentucky Speedway.

“I’m really happy to be running this No. 8 Chevrolet in back-to-back weekends for JRM,” Truex explained. “I feel like Taylor (Moyer, crew chief) and I have a good baseline to build off of after last weekend in Kentucky and I am confident that we can back up that top-10 run with an even stronger result on Saturday.”

Truex has two starts in the Xfinity Series at the Loudon, N.H. track. His best finish, 10^th, came in 2012 during his tenure with Joe Gibbs Racing. JRM has four top-five and 16 top-10s at NHMS in 30 combined Xfinity starts.

The Taylor Moyer-led No. 8 ‘All-Star’ car has earned four top-five and 12 top-10 finishes in 17 races this season. Truex is one of four drivers that have finished in the top-10 in all of their starts in the JRM ‘All-Star’ car. His second-place finish at ISM Raceway remains the best finish for the ‘All-Star’ car this season.

Jeb Burton, Chase Elliott, and Ryan Preece also have finished all of their Xfinity starts this season inside the top-10.

In the 27-year-old’s 74 previous starts, he has four top-five and 22 top-10 finishes. Truex’s best finish, second (twice), came with JRM earlier this season and Dover International Speedway with JGR in 2012. His only pole position also came at Dover in 2012.