Team owner Michael Waltrip said on Saturday at Kansas Speedway the organization is negotiating with #56-Martin Truex Jr. and primary sponsor NAPA on an extension. Truex Jr.’s contract expires at the end of the 2012 season. ‘NAPA is very happy right now,’ Waltrip said. ‘Everybody would be very happy to go into 2013 just like this.’ Truex said he never felt like he was on the hot seat coming into this season, and he’s confident he will be with MWR long-term. ‘I know where I stand with my race team, Michael and (co-owner) Rob (Kaufman),’ Truex said. ‘There was never a part of me that said I need to step it up, I need to do better. I know I ‘ve always gotten everything I possibly can get out of my equipment. I feel like they know that, too.’(ESPN)(4-21-2012)
