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STATESVILLE, N.C— Sunday’s seventh-place finish at Dover is AJ Allmendinger’s best career finish outside a restrictor plate track or road course. It marked his fourth top-10 of theseason and the third consecutive race he has raced inside the top-10 for a significant portion of the laps. This weekend, the Richard Petty Motorsports driver races the No. 44 Valvoline Dodge at Kansas Speedway where he finished ninth last year.

Allmendinger Quotes:

DOVER— “We were pretty happy with the result. I wouldn’t say I was surprised. If you go back and look at the last several races we have run really well until something weird happened at the end. (Crew Chief) Mike (Shiplett) and I are getting better each race. When we get to the track on Fridays we think we are a top 10 car and that’s been true over the last few races. Sunday at Dover was the first time we’ve been able to turn a top-10 car into a top -10 finish. But, I think you are going to see more and more of that in the coming races. A run like we had at Dover gets you excited about going to the track. I think we’d race today if NASCAR would let us. It’s cool to see the hard work paying off.”

KANSAS— “Kansas has been good to me. We ran pretty well there last year. I’m even more excited this time knowing the kind of cars and crew I have with me now. This is the best team I’ve raced with and I know we’ll have good stuff this weekend. On Sunday I’ll have one of the best pit crews in the sport. We probably passed a half dozen cars in the pits at Dover and I have no reason to doubt we can do that again in Kansas.”

Additional Notes of Interest:

• Allmendinger will sign autographs at his www.ajallmendinger.com merchandise hauler at 9:45 a.m. at Kansas on Sunday.

• Sunday marks Allmendinger’s 73rd start in Sprint Cup racing.

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• In just 33 races with the Petty team, Allmendinger has posted four of his best
five career finishes.

- Richard Petty Motorsports, Press Release