NASCAR at Chicagoland 2016: Winners and Losers from the TMNT 400

Martin Truex Jr. was mired by bad luck in 2016, often losing races he dominated. Of late, Truex has driven that No. 78 car through the field, and he did that with aplomb Sunday to win the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 400 on a titanic overtime restart to snatch the race and advance to the Round of 12. The Chase for the Sprint Cup began and was most certainly unkind to many of the Chasers, most notably Kevin Harvick and Jimmie Johnson, but it also served as a boon to Truex, Chase Elliott and the two-headed monster of Team Penske. The TMNT 400 saw many ups and downs and was by and large a solid start to the playoffs. The pressure only increases from here, but first we need to make sense of what happened in Joliet, Illinois. Read on for this we...

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