Why the discrepancy? He doesn’t have an answer.
“I didn’t have good luck in the 400,” he said. “I even run good in the 500 stuff, (but) to back it up was really tough for me. I don’t know. Basically, I’ve done better in the summer months than the winter months than all the other drivers, but I couldn’t get it done here.”
One of his drivers – Aric Almirola – won the Coke Zero 400 last year to qualify for the Chase for the NASCAR Sprint Cup. Almirola and Richard Petty Motorsports teammate Sam Hornish Jr. need to win to qualify for the playoff format.
“I feel good about it,” Almirola said. “Every time you come to Daytona and Talladega, you feel you have a 1-in-43 shot of winning and a 1-in-43 shot of ending upside down. It can go either way. That is how this racing goes.”
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