Truex, Jr. first Daytona 500 Outside-Polesitter to Finish Last since 1973:
#78-Martin Truex, Jr. picked up the 4th last-place finish of his NASCAR Sprint Cup Series career in Sunday's 56th Annual Daytona 500 at the Daytona International Speedway when his #78 Furniture Row Racing Chevrolet lost the engine after he completed 30 of the race's 200 laps. The finish was Truex's first since Phoenix in the fall of 2012, thirty-nine races ago, when he also started in the second position. This is the first last-place finish for the #78 at the Daytona International Speedway. However, the #78 did finish last once on the old Daytona Beach-Roadcourse in 1953 when Indianapolis native Frank Arford's 1953 Oldsmobile blew a gasket after 2 laps, putting him at the back of a 57-car field. This is Furniture Row Racing's first last-place run in the Daytona 500 since 2008, when Kenny Wallace's #87 Furniture Row Chevrolet lost the engine after 141 laps. Truex is the first outside-polesitter of the Daytona 500 to finish last since 1973, when Pete Hamilton's #9 Housby Mack Inc. 1972 Plymouth lost the engine after 33 laps. That race was the next-to-last of Hamilton's 64 Cup starts, a brief career highlighted by a win in the 1970 Daytona 500.(Lastcar)(2-25-2014)
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