Anthony Alfredo rejoined Our Motorsports for the 2024 NASCAR Xfinity Series season.
In his third full-time Xfinity season, he has one top five — tying his career-best of third at Talladega Superspeedway — and five top 10s. He currently is 15th in the standings, 95 points below the playoff cut line, with seven races left in the NXS regular season.
During the Nashville Superspeedway race weekend, Frontstretch spoke to Alfredo about running well for Our, the challenges of driving for a team with a smaller budget and whether he believes he can make the playoffs.
Mark Kristl, Frontstretch: You are 15th in points. Is that considered successful thus far this season?
Anthony Alfredo: Oh, absolutely. I mean, that’s a huge accomplishment for our team to be where we’re at and with the performance that we’ve had.
With that said, we want to make the playoffs, so that might be an unrealistic goal for a small team like ours. But truthfully, I believe we can win a race and punch our ticket. We still could point our way in if we have some more good runs and can close in on the guys ahead of us. We’ll have to see, but we’re certainly doing a good job this season and it’s gone as well as it could’ve thus far.
Kristl: Was the goal at the beginning of the season to make the playoffs or run top 20 and improve upon finishes?
Alfredo: The goal was certainly to run top 20 at the start of the year. But very quickly, we started to click off top 15s. We had five top 10s and won the Dash 4 Cash, so we kind of adjusted our expectations to be a top-15 team and not a top-20 team.
I mean that’s what we’re doing based on where we’re at in the standings, where we’ve been finishing, but it’s certainly going to be tough to take that next step and make the playoffs on points just knowing Xfinity starts at 12 instead of 16. We have a fraction of the budget, we have way less people, we have no alliance, no technical support, we do not have any data to lean on for information and cannot work on our cars in the simulator. We’re just racing the grassroots way. So the fact that we are even as high in the standings and have run as well as we are is something to be proud of.
Despite having Chevy Accessories as the primary sponsor on board his No. 5 at Portland International Raceway, Our does not receive any technical support from Chevrolet. The team does receive some data on its pit road statistics but nothing further.
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