JTG Daugherty Racing driver wins closest-to-the-pin contest at California track
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On the strength of back-to-back top-10 finishes at Atlanta Motor Speedway and Las Vegas Motor Speedway, AJ Allmendinger ranks fifth in the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series standings. His string of success continued on Tuesday at Auto Club Speedway in his home state of California.
The Los Gatos native was in Fontana to promote the upcoming Auto Club 400 (March 22, 3:30 p.m. ET, FOX), the final stop in NASCAR's three-race West Coast swing. The driver used a 9-iron to loft a ball from 50 feet up in the grandstands to within 16 inches of the pin, which was 90 feet away, in the track's tri-oval.
The feat beat former PGA Tour winner Dave Stockton and new Auto Club Speedway President Dave Allen. Allmendinger hopes his luck and skill hold when he returns next week to Fontana, where he earned an eighth-place finish last March, a career-best at the two-mile facility, in his 10th start there.
That result was one of five top-10 finishes for Allmendinger who earned his first Sprint Cup win at Watkins Glen International, putting himself and his team, JTG Daugherty Racing, into their first Chase for the NASCAR Sprint Cup. Allmendinger finished 13th in the 2014 points standings.
Check out some of the tweets from Allmendinger's winning day below.
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