Defending Cup Series champ Martin Truex Jr. hopes to reprise ’15 win at Sonoma

Last season in NASCAR couldn’t have gone any better for Martin Truex Jr. And off the track, 2018 started with an exciting prize for the ardent Philadelphia Eagles fan.

The New Jersey native won his first Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series championship. Then he found out he was going to the Super Bowl with a friend from Toyota, and two weeks later the Eagles won the NFC title game.

As the Eagles were upsetting the Patriots in Minneapolis in February, he was riding high.

“It was just so exciting to see my favorite team win their first Super Bowl,” he said. And it came on the heels of his own first title. “Last year was just meant to be for me,” he said.