No. 43 Team will Refer to Notes From June Test and Race Weekend
Dakoda Armstrong and the No. 43 WinField team will head to another mile-and-a-half track this weekend. The team continues to show improvement the second half of the season but feel they can take their mile-and-a-half program to the next level, which is what they hope to accomplish this weekend. The team will refer to their notes from their June test and race weekend.
Armstrong has seven starts in different racing series at the one-and-a-half mile track, including one ARCA Series, four NASCAR Truck Series and two Nationwide Series starts. He’s accumulated one Top-10 and three Top-15 finishes. Armstrong earned his best finish of ninth in the Truck Series in 2011. He earned his best Nationwide finish of 13th in 2013 and finished 20th after making contact with the wall late in the race.
This weekend, @DakodaArmstrong is looking forward to racing under the lights at @KySpeedway. #NASCAR
This weekend, @Dakoda Armstrong is looking forward to racing under the lights at @Kentucky Speedway.
“I enjoy going to Kentucky, to me it doesn’t feel like a mile-and-a-half track it feels shorter. With it being such a flat track, you really need to make sure your car is good on entry. If you go there and it’s really hot, there’s a big difference in time with the way the car turns and the grip. It’s a night race this weekend, and temperatures are supposed to be fairly mild, so that might play into our favor. It’s always fun to race under the lights.
“We had a test the first time we went there, and I thought we were pretty good. It kind of went away from us a little bit during the race, so we’ll go back and look at some of our notes to see what worked for us the last time.”
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.
