And from that point forward it has just been a battle. Since we won the, we went into the Daytona 500 with really high hopes and very fast race car and wrecked out early. “She’s told me for years, she’s like ‘Honey I know that you always have a good shot when we go to Daytona and Talladega but I so badly want you to win somewhere else.’ And so yeah it feels good to be able capitalize on fast race cars. “To win at a non-restrictor plate race, my wife hates the fact that I’ve only won at restrictor plate races,” Almirola said.

His first came in July 2014 at Daytona International Speedway for Richard Petty Motorsports and his second came in October at Talladega Superspeedway for Stewart-Haas. “Based on our performance this year at the majority of the race tracks we haven’t been a contender to win.”Īlmirola came into Sunday’s Cup Series Foxwoods Resort Casino 301 at New Hampshire Motor Speedway with two career series victories.

“Nobody should have thought we were going to win,” Almirola said.

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