A.J. Allmendinger

Anthony James Allmendinger (more known under the name of A.J. Allmendinger ) is an American racing driver born the December 16th 1981 with Los Gatos (California).

Biography

Karting with the Field Because

After having carried out its beginnings in competition in Karting (in 2000, he was besides member of a team directed by the Canadian Paul Tracy), A.J Allmendinger passes to the car in 2002, year during which he gains the championship To bore Dodge Pro Series.

Supported by the powerful Austrian firm Red Bull, it continues its rise by dominating in 2003 the Atlantic championship of Formule within the team RuSport, which contributes to make of him the American pilot of road race most promising of its generation. In 2004, it integrates at the same time as its RuSport team the rows of the Champ Because. But after a first very promising season (better beginning from the year after to have regularly taken the ascending one on its tested team-member Michel the Jordan Jr), he pains to confirm all his potential in 2005. In spite of good performances and a regular presence in the first places of the classification, it generally undergoes the law of its British fellow-member Justin Wilson.

At the conclusion of the four first sleeves of season 2006 of Field Because, RuSport decides in a surprised way to dismiss Allmendinger in order to replace it by Cristiano da Matta. But that which is single pilot American of the Champ series Because does not remain a long time without wheel since only a few days later, the stable Forsythe Championship Racing recruits it to replace Mario Dominguez. A.J Allmendinger is not long in being highlighted in its new team since as of her first race at Forsythe, at the time of the Grand Prix of Portland cement, it gains the first victory of its career in Field Because, before connecting by two new consecutive successes in Cleveland and Toronto. Become the main adversary of Sebastien Bourdais in the fight for the title, it takes down two new victories (in Denver and Elkhart Lake) but cannot prevent the French pilot from being titrated. Having announced with its employer his intention not to remain in Field Because in 2007, it is replaced by its compatriot Buddy Rice for the last sleeve of the season 2006 and is classified finally third of general classification.

Passage in NASCAR

In spite of its successes in Field Because, discipline of which he affirmed himself in 2006 like one of all the best pilots, A.J. Allmendinger does not resist temptation to go to try its chance in the tests of Nascar, more popular and lucrative. In September 2006, parallel to its end of season in Field Because, it carries out beginnings successful in the stock car within the framework of the championship of Craftsman Truck Series. Then, on October 24th, 2006, the TEAM Red Bull announces that Allmendinger will be one of its two titular pilots in the championship of Nextel Cup 2007. But its beginnings in Nextel Cup, planned for the end of season 2006, led to two not-qualifications (in Atlanta, because of bad weather, the grid was established according to the classification of the owners, and Red Bull equips it did not have enough points, while in Texas, Allmendinger produced an insufficient stopwatch).

Its beginning of the season 2007 leaves on such difficult bases: not profiting from a position " protégée" , he does not manage to qualify for the Daytona 500 like for the three following races of Nextel Cup. Its first departure in Cup takes place only at the end of March on the small Bristol-board oval.

Prize list

Victorious of championship To bore Dodge in 2002 Victorious
Atlantic championship of Formula 2003

Others

the initial ones of the first name of Allmendinger refer to A.J directly. Foyt, the pilot emblematic of the American automobile sport of the twentieth century, and god of her father. But fruit of a compromise within the couple Allmendinger, its first name complete is Anthony James and not Anthony Joseph as for Foyt.
It is married since January 19th, 2007 with the Canadian mannequin Lynne Kushnirenko.

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