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I think my days of racing professionally are over,” Matt Kenseth finally announced his retirement….

Matt Kenseth rules out racing return, arrives at realization: ‘I know the days of winning races are over’

 

Jimmie Johnson is scheduled to make the third of nine starts in his partial NASCAR Cup Series schedule this weekend at Dover Motor Speedway. He’ll do so in a third Legacy Motor Club entry, the No. 84 Toyota, in Sunday’s Würth 400 (2 p.m. ET, FS1, PRN Radio, SiriusXM NASCAR Radio).

 

 

Seeing his contemporary and LMC colleague run in select races hasn’t prompted the same itch from Matt Kenseth, who joined the organization last October as a competition advisor. The 52-year-old Hall of Famer last competed in 2020, finishing out the pandemic-plagued year as a replacement for Kyle Larson on Chip Ganassi’s team. That campaign — and his part-time return to team owner Jack Roush’s operation in 2018 — showed glimmers of Kenseth’s heyday, but cemented his thoughts about his racing career beyond his prime years.

 

 

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“No, I think my days of racing professionally are over,” Kenseth says. “I think everybody has that — most people do, some people maybe don’t — but I certainly had the realization that I can’t do it at the level that I wanted to do it at, or that I used to be able to do it, anymore. I really came to that realization. It was painfully obviously in 2020 when I came back and drove Chip’s car for that year. There’s a lot of circumstances that made it difficult to be competitive, but with all that being said, there’s some races we were fairly competitive, but most of the time I was just way over my head.”

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