Kevin Harvick Issues A Strong Warning, Putting Martin Truex Jr. & Joe Gibbs’ Indecisive Relationship on the Spot

Martin Truex Jr. has been keeping everyone, even his own team, guessing for the past two years as to whether or not he is retiring. There have been rumours recently that he may retire after Kevin Harvick. However, it appeared like Truex Jr. planned to delay retirement in order to win the Cup championship in 2024 after winning the regular season championship.

While he’s been killing it on the short tracks again this season, his future with JGR still isn’t set in stone. But now, Kevin Harvick is pushing for Truex Jr to make up his mind, rather than staying in this ‘let’s see‘ phase.

Team insiders told The Athletic’s Jordan Bianchi that they expect Truex to be back in the #19 Cup car for the 2025 NASCAR season. This is promising news for Joe Gibbs Racing, given that Truex is among the top talents in NASCAR and currently ranks second in the points standings.

The driver of the #19 car is due for a victory and is likely to find himself in victory lane soon. However, neither Truex nor Joe Gibbs has confirmed the news yet. As long as Truex hasn’t made a definitive decision about retiring, there will be ongoing rumors about who might take his spot, with names like Chandler Smith and possibly Truex’s brother, Ryan Truex, floating around. Nonetheless, Truex seems to be enjoying his time in the NextGen car and performing well—key factors that could convince the 2017 Cup Series champion to stick around for another season in 2025.

• Racing driver, Martin Truex Jr must make a decision soon. Not only would this clear up the ongoing uncertainty within his team about his retirement, but it would also ease any tensions. Harvick, talking at Happy Hour by FOX, expressed, “I think with Martin some point that has to get old of of just continuously going back and forth on a year-to-year basis of you know- are you going to come back next year. And so I think that that decision I think that it sounds like they’re putting more pressure on Martin this year to say okay earlier we got we got to we got to do something because we got to know what we’re planning around here and move forward.”