When Martin Truex Jr. won his first championship on Sunday, he took his winning 78 car for a celebratory burnout.
Those burnouts usually result in a ridiculous amount of smoke that's usually white, but when Truex did his burnout, there was a strange greenish-yellow smoke that appeared from the car.
Burn it down one last time this season, MTJ.
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— NASCAR (@NASCAR) November 20, 2017
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Truex was obviously in a great mood after his win, but he did get serious for a moment when discussing the smoke coming from his car. He was asked if he had spoken to team owner Barney Visser -- who couldn't attend the championship race since he had bypass surgery two weeks ago followed a heart attack -- and he told reporters he wasn't too keen on the added smoke.
"I talked to (Visser) as soon as I got done filling my lungs with purple or yellow -- whatever color paint that was -- on the front straightaway smoke," Truex said via For The Win. "Oh my god, I literally thought I was going to die getting out of the car. I couldn't get my radio unhooked and my helmet hose, and I'm like choking to death. So right after that. It was awful. I thought I was in a forest fire."
The smoke was pretty much the only thing that didn't go Truex's way on Sunday. He won his first career championship by holding off a late surge from Kyle Busch, and he capped off a dominant, eight-win season with the victory at Homestead.