AJ Allmendinger scored the win in Sunday’s running of the Verizon 200 at Indianapolis Motor Speedway road course. The event marked the first time the NASCAR Cup Series had competed on the 14-turn road course as all previous events at the Brickyard had taken place on the oval.
Allmendinger may not have had the car to beat but a series of events including the track coming apart, a poor navigation of turn one on a restart by Kyle Larson, and the spinning of Denny Hamlin by Chase Briscoe all led to the part-time Kaulig racing team going to victory lane for the first time.
“We just won at Indy, what’s up,” Allmendinger exclaimed after exiting his car.
“I mean, it was survival of the fittest,” Allmendinger said. “We probably had like an eighth, 10th-place car, sped on pit road. I thought we were going to finish 12th to 15th and then those restarts were just insane.
“It’s great when you have a car owner that just says, ‘go get me trophies.’ He doesn’t care if that thing is torn up.”
Indy Road Course Results
- AJ Allmendinger
- Ryan Blaney
- Kyle Larson
- Chase Elliott
- Matt DiBenedetto
- Kurt Busch
- Erik Jones
- Justin Haley
- Austin Cindric
- Ryan Newman
- Ricky Stenhouse Jr.
- Chris Buescher
- Bubba Wallace
- Kevin Harvick
- Martin Truex Jr.
- Corey LaJoie
- Alex Bowman
- Josh Bilicki
- Aric Almirola
- Kyle Busch
- Tyler Reddick
- Quin Houff
- Denny Hamlin
- Brad Keselowski
- Cole Custer
- Chase Briscoe
- Timmy Hill
- Garrett Smithley
- Ross Chastain
- Michael McDowell
- Austin Dillon
- James Davison
- William Byron
- Joey Logano
- Ryan Preece
- Christopher Bell
- Daniel Suarez
- Anthony Alredo
- Andy Lally
- Cody Ware
