Aric Almirola finished sixth in the Super Start Batteries 400 Presented by O’Reilly Auto Parts at Kansas Speedway on Thursday.
The top-10 finish for Almirola added 42 points to his season total. He now has 576 total points, good enough for eighth place in the NASCAR Cup Series.
Almirola started in third position. The 13th-year driver has tallied two career victories, with 23 top-five finishes and 71 results inside the top 10.
The sixth-place result for Almirola was the sixth top-10 of his career at Kansas Speedway in 16 starts.
The Tampa, Florida native’s starting and finishing positions compared favorably to his career averages, starting 18 spots higher than his career mark of 20.7 and completing the race 16 places ahead of his 21.7 career average finish.
Almirola took on 40 other drivers on the way to his sixth-place finish. The race endured 11 cautions and 47 caution laps. There were 21 lead changes.
Denny Hamlin secured the victory in the race, and Brad Keselowski followed in second. Martin Truex Jr placed third, Kevin Harvick secured fourth, and Erik Jones grabbed the No. 5 spot.
After Kyle Busch won the first stage, Keselowski drove the No. 2 car to victory in Stage 2.