Ryan Truex hasn’t had too much to do this offseason. The 22-year-old stock-car driver, and younger brother of fellow NASCAR driver Martin Truex Jr., is a free agent. With the Sprint Cup season starting Feb. 14 in Florida with the exhibition Sprint Unlimited race and the Daytona 500 on Feb. 22, it’s beginning to look as if the Stafford Township native will have to wait for his chance to race in 2015. Ryan, a Southern Regional High School graduate, left BK Racing in September. Ryan said at the time that both parties decided “to part ways and move toward the future.” There hasn’t been much to update since then, Truex said, but he still hopes to be in a racecar this season. He remains signed to a multi-year deal as a developmental driver with Richard Petty Motorsports, a contract he signed in 2013. “We’re still working hard with that and working to find the funding and right partnership to go out and run, whether it’s XFINITY or (Sprint) Cup,” Ryan said while attending the Atlantic City Indoor Races last weekend at Boardwalk Hall. “I felt like we had so many opportunities to capitalize on some strong runs (last NASCAR season) and just had a lot of bad luck,” Ryan said. “Michigan (June 15), for example, that kind of hurt having the injury (concussion) and having to sit out for a week. For sure, the most up and down year of my career, by far. I’m glad I can put it behind me and move on.” Those results aside, Truex said the biggest thing he got out of last year was experience.(Press of Atlantic City)(2-8-2015)
