Martin Truex Jr. announced his retirement from full-time competition in the NASCAR Cup Series this past weekend at a press conference at Iowa Speedway.

Truex, 2017 Cup Series champion and two-time Busch (now Xfinity) Series champion, has been a tale of two halves. After a promising a yet unsuccessful first eight years in the cup series, Truex found himself at now-defunct Furniture Row Racing in 2014. Furniture Row had never had a driver finish top-20 in points…