No. 43 Team Will Look to Kentucky Notes After Solid Effort in June
It’s been six races since the last NASCAR Nationwide Series race on a mile-and-a-half track and nine races since the race at Kentucky Speedway. The Nationwide race at Kentucky is significant to Dakoda Armstrong and the No. 43 WinField team because it showcased their improvement at the mile-and-a-half tracks. Armstrong was having a strong run, running in and out of the Top-10 and Top-15 until a tire went down forcing the WinField Ford into the wall. Armstrong still managed a Top-20 finish, but the team looks to Atlanta as another chance to showcase their improvements at the mile-and-a-half tracks.
Armstrong has one start at Atlanta in the NASCAR Camping World Truck Series in 2012 where he earned at Top-25 finish. The Nationwide team at Richard Petty Motorsports has two starts at the Georgia track with a Top-10 and a Top-15 finish.
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This weekend at @Atlanta Motor Speedway, @Dakoda Armstrong and the No. 43 WinField team look to showcase their improvement on their 1.5-mile program.
“From what I can remember, it’s one of the most abrasive tracks. You’re pretty fast the first couple laps, and then it falls off. I seem to do better at tracks like that, so hopefully, we can go there and have a good run. I feel like places that have a little bit of fall off plays to my advantage a bit.
“The track is really slick, so we need to make sure our car is good enough to be able to race when the tires fall off. You race the track there more than you do most of the mile-and-a-half tracks, so that makes it fun. Atlanta is unique because it’s an old surface and you can move around on the track and really use up the car. So, I’m excited to go back.”
No. 43 WinField Ford
A performance and marketing driven company, Richard Petty Motorsports, co-owned by NASCAR Hall of Famer Richard Petty and successful business entrepreneurs Andrew Murstein and Douglas Bergeron, is one of the most recognized brands in all of motorsports. With a history of over 200 wins and business partnerships with national and global leaders, today the race operation fields two teams in competition in the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series. Aric Almirola pilots the famous No. 43 Ford Fusion with primary partners Smithfield Foods, U.S. Air Force, STP, Strike Ten Entertainment and Fresh From Florida, and Marcos Ambrose drives the No. 9 machine with primary partners STANLEY, DEWALT, Mac Tools and Twisted Tea. In addition, Dakoda Armstrong wheels the No. 43 WinField Ford Mustang full-time in the NASCAR Nationwide Series. The team is headquartered in Concord, N.C.
