Martin Truex Jr. Gave clue’ on when he will retire after this season

It could be months before Martin Truex Jr. figures out his racing future. Truex dragged out his decision until summer each of the last two NASCAR seasons and insisted Wednesday he hasn’t made up his mind regarding 2025.

“I have no idea what I’m doing next year,” Truex said. “I have no clue.”

The 43-year-old Truex mulled retirement last year until he signed a one-year contract extension with Joe Gibbs Racing in August. A year earlier, Truex made his announcement in June.

Truex still has one big goal to reach: winning the Daytona 500.

Truex is winless in 19 starts in the 500, none more agonizing than losing to JGR teammate Denny Hamlin by inches in 2016. Truex doesn’t have a top-10 finish in the 500 since, but he did win the series championship the following year.

Truex has 34 career Cup wins. Joe Gibbs, the 83-year-old team owner, has yet to ask Truex about his plans for next season.

“I think I’m the oldest driver now,” Truex said. “It doesn’t seem like that long ago I was one of the young guys.”

Truex turns 44 in June, just beating out Hamlin for oldest full-time driver in the Cup Series. Hamlin turns 44 in November. Hall of Famer Jimmie Johnson, who is scheduled for nine races this season, turns 49 in September.

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Taylor Swift never signed a blank space in Josh Berry’s high school yearbook.

Swift, the global pop superstar who became the talk of this year’s Super Bowl, was a few years ahead of Berry at Henderson High in Tennessee.

Berry, who drives for Stewart-Haas Racing and will make his Daytona 500 debut on Sunday, wished he had Swift sign a yearbook.

“I would have already sold it by now,” he quipped Wednesday at Daytona 500 media day.

Berry said he’d like to at least find Swift in his old yearbooks, which are now with his dad.

“One thing that stands out is I remember her singing in the talent show and we’re being like, ‘Dang, she’s all right,’” Berry said. “You know how talent shows are, right? Sometimes they’re real hit or miss. This, we’re like, ‘Damn, that’s pretty good.’”

Berry said he never knew Swift but had some friends who did.

“Sometimes it gets made that we were like buddies, which is definitely not the case,” Berry said.

DAYTONA 500 FANS, START YOUR WAGERS

Daytona International Speedway forged a partnership this month with Hard Rock Digital to make its Hard Rock Bet app the official sportsbook at the track.

Of course, Hard Rock is the only sportsbook legally allowed to operate in Florida.

The speedway renamed the fan zone The Hard Rock Bet Fanzone and advertising is plastered throughout the area. Hard Rock had one billboard-type ad with a bar code ready to scan for gambler to make a deposit and start betting.

Hard Rock joined FanDuel, DraftKings, BetMGM and ESPN Bet as official sportsbooks for NASCAR.

For the Daytona 500, Hard Rock is taking bets on everything from winning driver and winning race team to top Chevrolet, Ford and Toyota drivers.