AJ Allmendinger
2026 Season — NASCAR Cup Series
Through July 26, 2026 · 477 pts behind leader
Roles
- Driver — Kaulig Racing
Coverage (5 articles)
Carson Kvapil Has Five Runner-Up Finishes and No Wins. Indianapolis Has Never Been Kind to That.
Kvapil is tied for the most second-place finishes without a victory in series history, and he has done it in 63 starts. Brent Crews has been passed for the lead late at four tracks this season.
AJ Allmendinger's Two Indianapolis Wins Came on a Course NASCAR No Longer Uses
He won his first Cup race at the Speedway and an O'Reilly Series race there a year later, both on the infield road course NASCAR abandoned after 2023. Sunday he runs the oval, 98 points outside the Chase.
SVG Was Twenty-Nine Seconds Behind With Twenty-Four Laps Left. He Won by Seven.
Stephen Doran's pit box thought it was over. Twenty-four laps later, Shane van Gisbergen took the checkered flag at Watkins Glen by 7.288 seconds — his seventh career Cup win, every one of them on a road or street course.
Kaden Honeycutt Won the ARCA Race. Then He Won the Truck Race. The Last Driver Who Pulled That Off Was Sam Mayer in 2020.
Kaden Honeycutt won the ARCA Menards General Tire 100 at Watkins Glen on Friday afternoon. Then he won the NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series Bully Hill Vineyards 176 in overtime over Connor Zilisch — becoming the second driver in history to take an ARCA race and a Truck race on the same day, joining Sam Mayer's 2020 Bristol sweep. Honeycutt now leads the Truck Series championship by 29 over Chandler Smith.
Cup Drivers Are Back in The CW's O'Reilly Series Booth
The CW is running its Cup-driver guest-analyst rotation again for six O'Reilly Series races. Denny Hamlin opens at Charlotte Motor Speedway. Connor Zilisch — the 10-win standout from The CW's inaugural season — gets Nashville. Ross Chastain at Pocono, AJ Allmendinger at Sonoma, Kyle Busch at EchoPark, Bubba Wallace at Indianapolis.