NASCAR: 5 drivers who could sign with Chip Ganassi Racing for 2019

Justin Allgaier

Justin Allgaier is in the midst of what has been his breakout season in the NASCAR Xfinity Series. He entered the 2018 season having competed full-time in the series in seven seasons before. In those seven seasons, he had earned five victories, including two last season in his second season driving for JR Motorsports.

So far this season, the driver of the #7 JR Motorsports Chevrolet has doubled his career win total. Through the season’s first 26 races, he has already racked up five victories, and he has done so by winning five of the last 17 races. He won the regular season championship and leads the championship standings heading into the playoffs.

Allgaier has driven full-time in the Xfinity Series in all but two seasons since the 2009 season. Those two seasons, the 2014 and 2015 seasons, he spent competing full-time in the Cup Series. While he secured just one top 11 finish, an eighth place finish in the April race at Bristol Motor Speedway in the 2015 season, in his 71 races as a full-time driver, he was driving for HScott Motorsports, so it wasn’t like he was going to be competitive.

There is no doubt that the 32-year-old Spaulding, Illinois has what it takes to move up to the Cup Series as a full-time driver, and his breakout Xfinity Series season this year proves it.