Truex credits the Joe Gibbs Racing Toyota team’s hard work during the off-season for the road course win.
“Just everything it took to be successful here. I mean, honestly, we had some issues last year. We’d show up at road courses, we would kind of out-smart ourselves, reinvent the wheel, come up with some super crazy trick setup because we knew our cars were not as good as the other manufacturers.
Martin Truex Jr. drives through the Chute. (Ray Saint Germain/Bay City News) 
Martin Truex Jr. fans, Andrew Brozynski and Sabina Wiedmer of Redwood City, cheer as Truex Jr. wins. (Ray Saint Germain/Bay City News) 
Ty Dillon, William Byron, Ross Chasten and Ricky Stenhouse Jr. head into Turn 4A. (Ray Saint Germain/Bay City News) 
Alex Bowman rounds Turn 2. (Ray Saint Germain/Bay City News) 
Pit row racing markers are reflected in a driver’s helmet before the start of the Toyota/Save Mart 350. (Ray Saint Germain/Bay City News) 
Zane Smith and Brad Keselowski drive through Turn 4A. (Ray Saint Germain/Bay City News) 
Justin Haley goes inside of Ty Dillon at Turn 2. (Ray Saint Germain/Bay City News) 
Driver Ty Gibb’s Monster Energy Toyota is gassed up before the Toyota/Save Mart 350 at Sonoma Raceway. (Ray Saint Germain/Bay City News) 
Harrison Burton and Andy Lally head to the Chute. (Ray Saint Germain/Bay City News) 
Chase Elliott and Kevin Harvick round Turn 2. (Ray Saint Germain/Bay City News) 
Mounted tires sit ready in the pit area of driver Christopher Bell before the start of the race. (Ray Saint Germain/Bay City News) 
Denny Hamlin heads to the Chute. (Ray Saint Germain/Bay City News) 
Michael McDowell, Joey Logano and Chris Buescher head out of Turn 1. (Ray Saint Germain/Bay City News) 
Ty Gibbs drives through Turn 4A. (Ray Saint Germain/Bay City News) 
Brad Keselowski leads Ryan Preece through the Chute. (Ray Saint Germain/Bay City News)
We shot ourselves in the foot a few times. Here was one of them, for sure. We came here, completely disregarded everything we know about this track thinking it was a new car, it was going to be different. We ran terrible. It was like, Okay, that was dumb, we’re idiots.
But no, I mean, I think honestly just a lot of hard work in the off-season. NASCAR obviously let everybody do some redesigning on the front end with the louvers and the nose and that stuff. I think we were able to get our cars to where the other guys’ were, closer to the Chevrolets that were super fast on the road courses last year.
James and my engineers and our team working hard to figure out a good setup that I would like, something that would work for me here that was like what we used to run in the past.
There’s a lot to it. It’s really hard to explain it. Tons of hard work in the off-season from every angle on road courses, on short tracks, really on everything. Short tracks and road courses for sure were a big focus as a group with Toyota and with JGR.”
Kyle Busch in the McLaren Custom Grills Chevrolet finished second and Joey Logano in the Autotrader Ford got the third spot.
Ricky Stenhouse Jr., Chase Elliott, AJ Allmendinger, Michael McDowell, Kyle Larson, Christopher Bell and Ross Chastain completed the list if top 10 finishers.