Almirola, who decided he will retire from fulltime NASCAR competition at the conclusion of the 2022 season, is the only series driver to have finished in the top-10 in each of the season’s first three races.
He opened the year with a fifth in the Daytona 500, was sixth at Fontana, Calif., and fought back from numerous issues Sunday for another sixth at Las Vegas Motor Speedway.
With his sixth-place finish last weekend at Fontana, Almirola had already continued a quirky 49-year NASCAR streak of at least one driver finishing in the top-10 in the season’s first two races.
Consistency over all
His three consecutive top-10s has Almirola sitting, sixth in the series standings heading into this weekend’s race at Phoenix Raceway. He was the highest finishing Stewart-Haas Racing driver in Sunday’s race and remains the SHR driver highest in points.
Asked the key to his successful start so far, Almirola, 37, said: “We fight. That’s the beauty of this race team. We’re still…
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