How it happened: AJ Allmendinger wins chaotic, historic NASCAR road course racīut five, 10, 20 or 50 years into the future, Allmendinger’s win Sunday, through two overtime green-white-checkereds and 13 more laps than scheduled, will likely serve as a footnote to the destroyed curbing in Turn 6 that stole the storylines and turned a relatively clean race into what Austin Dillon called a “demolition derby.”.AJ Allmendinger on IMS win: 'I’m going to win or I’m probably going to crash’.Now, he owns the type of memorable victory at the world’s most famous racetrack that takes a 39-year-old driver into a stratosphere he’s never known. His resume includes 2004 Champ Car Rookie of the Year honors, a 2003 Atlantic Championship, a devastating near-miss in the 2013 Indy 500 and various other close calls. Sunday’s victory is just the second in Allmendinger’s Cup career.
Kaulig Racing and Allmendinger have run just four races this season. Allmendinger, racing’s definition of a journeyman, won the Cup’s Verizon 200 - the replacement for the Brickyard 400 - with a NASCAR team still in its infancy. Years later, record books will state that A.J. View Gallery: Verizon 200 at the Brickyard qualify and race on road course at IMS Madness starts to unfold
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