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FORT WORTH, Texas -- Darrell Wallace Jr. would tell you he's not necessarily a "numbers" kind of guy.
But he leaned back against his Roush Racing No. 6 Leidos Ford on Texas Motor Speedway's pit road Saturday, shook his head, laughed a bit and thought about the upside of scoring his fifth consecutive sixth-place finish this year.
Outside of a crash-derailed, 33rd-place effort at the XFINITY Series' season opener at Daytona Beach, Wallace has finished sixth in every single race.
NASCAR Hall of Famer Jack Ingram finished runner-up in the series six consecutive times in 1983 -- the longest streak of consistency in the series.
All of Wallace's sixes have produced an even more encouraging number: four. Wallace is ranked fourth in the standings, 49 points behind leader Elliott Sadler with the series' next race at Bristol, Tennessee, in two weeks.
"Unreal," Wallace said smiling. "Hats off to the crew. They put me in the game there after that last stop. I knew it was going to be a good day."
Wallace said it wasn't until the very end that he realized his number was going to come up again. He spun out on Lap 67 racing hard with a group of cars, but didn't make contact with the wall and was able to rally his Ford Mustang back up through the field -- and even led a lap.
He was trying to catch rookie and fifth-place finisher Cole Custer in the final frantic laps.
"I didn't know where we were when I was battling with Custer," Wallace said. "I thought we were eighth or ninth. He did a good job all day. I was thinking, 'oh, here goes seventh,' but we were able to hold on.
"Nine laps to go, I was clear by 10 (car-lengths). I was coming down the frontstretch and I was like, there is no way we are in sixth again."
Wallace grinned and shook his head, "I'm going to talk to Elliott here. Maybe I could buy his number."
Points leader Elliott Sadler's Chevrolet is No. 1.