NASCAR: A.J. Allmendinger confirms return, details unknown
By Asher Fair
A.J. Allmendinger announced that he will be back with Kaulig Racing for the 2021 NASCAR Xfinity Series season, but that is all he knows at this time.
A.J. Allmendinger announced Sunday that he will be back with Kaulig Racing’s NASCAR Xfinity Series team for a third consecutive season in 2021, but he announced that nothing else about his schedule is known.
The 39-year-old Los Gatos, California native does not know how many races in which he will compete throughout the 33-race campaign, and he does not know where any of his starts will be made.
He made this announcement in a video he posted to Twitter.
A message to all of our fans!!! @KauligRacing pic.twitter.com/LNA4xZE7zO
— AJ Allmendinger (@AJDinger) November 29, 2020
Allmendinger will likely end up competing in multiple road course races, given the fact that four of this five starts in 2019 and four of his 11 starts in 2020 came at road courses.
He won at the Charlotte Motor Speedway Roval in both 2019 and 2020, and he also secured his first career oval win at Atlanta Motor Speedway in 2020.
He has had a successful run with Kaulig Racing in the road course races over the last two seasons.
Allmendinger, who won at Road America and Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course in the 2013 Xfinity Series season and at Watkins Glen International in the 2014 Cup Series season, lost a second place finish at Watkins Glen International in 2019 as a result of a post-race disqualification.
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But he went on to finish in third place at Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course and 24th at Road America before his win at the Charlotte Motor Speedway Roval. In 2020, he finished in fourth place at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway road course, second at Road America and fourth at the Daytona International Speedway road course before his win at the Charlotte Motor Speedway Roval.
The road courses on the 2021 schedule are Circuit of the Americas, Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course, Road America, Watkins Glen International, the Indianapolis Motor Speedway road course and the Charlotte Motor Speedway Roval.
Cup Series races have also not been ruled out for Allmendinger next year, and there are six road course races on that 36-race schedule, three times as many as there were in 2020.
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The 2021 NASCAR Xfinity Series season is scheduled to get underway on Saturday, February 13 with the NASCAR Racing Experience 300 at Daytona International Speedway. Allmendinger failed to qualify for this race in 2020.