A. J. Allmendinger
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| Champ Car World Series Record | |
| Nationality | Image:Flag of the United States.svg American |
| Car # | 7 |
| Current team | Forsythe Championship Racing |
| Race starts | 39 |
| Series Championships | 0 |
| Wins | 5 |
| Podium finishes | 14 |
| Pole positions | 2 |
| First Champ Car race | 2004 Grand Prix of Long Beach |
| First win | 2006 Grand Prix of Portland |
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| Born: | December 16, 1981 | |
| Birthplace: | Los Gatos, California | |
| Awards: | 2-time IKF Champion
2002 Barber Pro Series Champion 2003 Champ Car Atlantic Champion 2004 Champ Car World Series Rookie of the Year | |
| Car #, Team | #84 - Team Red Bull | |
| NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series Statistics | ||
| Best NCTS Position: | 46th - 2006 (Craftsman Truck Series) | |
| First Race: | 2006 Sylvania 200 (New Hampshire) | |
| Wins | Top Tens | Poles |
| 0 | 1 | 0 |
| All stats current as of November 26, 2006. | ||
A.J. Allmendinger (born December 16, 1981, in Los Gatos, California) is an American racecar driver. He has raced in Champ Car, and more recently NASCAR.
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[edit] Racing career
[edit] Early career
He started his career in karts. He won two International Karting Federation Grand National championships. <ref name="ChampCar">Allmendinger's Champ car profile</ref>
Allmendinger won the Barber Dodge Pro Series championship in 2002, and the Champ Car Atlantic Championship in 2003 with Carl Russo's RuSport team.
[edit] Champ Car
In 2004 they entered the Champ Car World Series, with Michel Jourdain Jr. joining Allmendinger. He generally outperformed the experienced Mexican, scoring a run of 6 top-6 finishes towards the end of the season, winning the Roshfrans Rookie-of-the-Year award ahead of Justin Wilson. Wilson joined the team for 2005, and both drivers have been in regular contention for podium finishes.
On June 9, 2006, RuSport announced that Allmendinger would be replaced by 2002 CART champion Cristiano da Matta. However, he did not remain unemployed long, as Forsythe Championship Racing hired him on June 14, 2006. In the interim, he became engaged to Lynne Kushnirenko, a model and chiropractor.
On June 18, 2006, Allmendinger won the Grand Prix of Portland in his first race with Forsythe Championship Racing. Allmendinger became the first American to win a Champ Car World Series event since Ryan Hunter-Reay won at The Milwaukee Mile in 2004.
On June 25, 2006, Allmendinger won the Grand Prix of Cleveland from the pole in a hectic race that saw two-time CART champ and points leader Sébastien Bourdais, teammate Paul Tracy, former teammate Justin Wilson, Dan Clarke and former seatholder Mario Dominguez eliminated during the race.
He continued his winning streak by winning his third consecutive race at the Grand Prix of Toronto on July 9, 2006. He started second after Wilson bested Allmendinger's time in the last lap of the event's final qualifying session. The victory moved Allmendinger into second place in the CCWS championship standings, behind leader Bourdais.
He chalked up his fourth and fifth wins of the season at Denver and Road America.
[edit] NASCAR
Allmendinger made his NASCAR debut in the Craftsman Truck Series driving for Bill Davis Racing at New Hampshire International Speedway on September 16 2006<ref>http://www.speedtv.com/articles/auto/nascar/32253/</ref> <ref name="racingref">NASCAR results at Racing-reference.info</ref>. He crashed his primary truck in qualifying but started the race 32nd and finished on the lead lap in 13th. He also competed at Talladega Superspeedway in October with a finish of 5th.
Allmendinger attempted his first NASCAR Nextel Cup Series event at Atlanta in October 2006 driving the Team Red Bull entry, however, a rainout in qualifying prevented him from making the race, due to lack of owners points for the team. He also attempted to make the race at Texas however he failed to qualify.
It was announced on October 24, 2006 that Allmendinger will drive the NEXTEL Cup #84 Team Red Bull Toyota Camry in 2007.
In his 3rd career truck series start, he qualified in 2nd place at Atlanta.
[edit] References
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[edit] External links
- A.J. Allmendinger Career Statistics
- AJ Allmendinger Champ Car career
- Allmendinger statistics pre NASCAR career
| 2006 Champ Car World Series | |||||||||
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| Newman/Haas | Forsythe | CTE-HVM | Australia | PKV | Rocketsports | RuSPORT | Coyne | Conquest | |
| 1 Bourdais 2 Junqueira | 3 Tracy 7 Rice | 4 Philippe 14 Clarke | 5 Power 15 Tagliani | 6 Servia 20 Legge | 8 Dominguez 18 Pizzonia | 9 Wilson 10 Briscoe | 11 Heylen 19 Wirth | 27 Ranger 34 Zwolsman | |
| Long Beach - Houston - Monterrey - Milwaukee - Portland - Cleveland - Toronto - Edmonton - San Jose - Denver - Montreal - Road America - Surfers Paradise - Mexico City | |||||||||
[edit] Complete Champ Car results
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| Yr | Team | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | Team | Rank | Points |
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| 2004 | RuSPORT | LBH 12 | MOT Ret | MIL 5 | POR 6 | CLE 6 | TOR 11 | VAN 3 | ROA 13 | DEN 5 | MON 5 | LAG Ret | LAS 6 | SUR 6 | MEX 3 | RuSPORT | 6th | 229 |
| 2005 | RuSPORT | LBH 8 | MOT 10 | MIL 2 | POR 5 | CLE 2 | TOR Ret | EDM Ret | SAN Ret | DEN 3 | MON 9 | LAS 13 | SUR 2 | MEX 2 | RuSPORT | 5th | 227 | |
| 2006 | RuSPORT | LBH Ret | HST 8 | MOT 3 | MIL 4 | POR 1 | CLE 1 | TOR 1 | EDM 3 | SAN 7 | DEN 1 | MON Ret | ROA 1 | SUR Ret | MEX DNS | Forsythe | 2nd* | 280* |
* Denotes present season standing
| Preceded by: Sebastien Bourdais (as CART Rookie of the Year) | Champ Car Rookie of the Year 2004 | Succeeded by: Timo Glock |
