Michael Annett had hoped to return to the No. 43 car of Richard Petty Motorsports at Talladega. That will not happen as a scan last week revealed that the bones and plates on Annett’s sternum were not fusing as fast as the driver had hoped. Annett’s surgeon had told him it would be two or [...]
Aric Almirola knows that there is a difference between his team and others in NASCAR’s top series. “When you really sit down and think about it, you look at the race teams that are on the racetrack, you’ve got four Hendrick Motorsports cars, and three Gibbs cars, and you know, the three Roush cars, two [...]
Richard Petty Motorsports has re-signed both of its NASCAR Sprint Cup Series drivers. Marcos Ambrose will return to drive the No. 9 Ford Fusion while Aric Almirola will drive the No. 43 car during the 2013 season. This will be the third year at RPM for Ambrose. The 2013 season will make the second year [...]
Richard Petty Motorsports and Ford Racing will continue their manufacturing partnership though 2013. The announced deal confirms Richard Petty’s comments a few weeks ago that he would field two cars in the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series. A Nationwide Series team will also run under the RPM banner in 2013 according to the deal. Next season [...]
Richard Petty expects only a few small changes for his NASCAR Sprint Cup teams heading into 2013. The seven time Champion says he expects to remain with Ford and keep drivers Marcos Ambrose and Aric Almirola under contract. “It looks like there is not going to be a lot of change there for next year, [...]
Richard Petty said he hopes to have a new deal with Ford completed within the next three weeks but acknowledged that it will not be as good financially for the team. Much of the manufacture money that had been going to Petty’s team will now go to Penske Racing as the organization moves from Dodge [...]
This weekend two NASCAR teams are lending a hand in efforts to find missing girls from Iowa. The No. 43 Nationwide car of Richard Petty Motorsports and the No. 83 and No. 93 of BK Racing will “feature pictures and endangered missing information on Lyric Cook and Elizabeth Collins on the deck lid and C-posts [...]
Aric Almirola driver of the No.43 Richard Petty Motorsports car will feature “Automotive Lift Institute” on his car this weekend at Pocono Raceway for the Pennsylvania 400. As a co-sponsor ALM Materials Handling will also be on the car. You can see a photo of the cars design that was posted on the Automotive Lift [...]
For Aric Almirola; driver of the No.43 Smithfield Foods/United States Air Force/STP Ford for Richard Petty Motorsports, you can say honoring the military is in his blood. Almirola was born at Eglin Air Force Base in Florida some 28 years ago. The Petty family has a long history of supporting our nation’s heroes. At the [...]
The U.S. Air Force continues it’s sponsorship of the #43 car of Richard Petty Motorsports this Saturday night at Daytona. Almirola won the pole at Charlotte in May while driving the in the air force sponsored car, the team hopes to see similar results for the upcoming Coke Zero 400. Almirola is currently 22nd in [...]
