Shane van Gisbergen Has Drastically Hurt AJ Allmendinger's Winning Chances at Watkins Glen
Source: Racing Reference

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August 10, 2025
A.J. Allmendinger has never really gotten bad at road courses but he's become much less of a threat to win on them since Shane van Gisbergen became a full-time NASCAR Cup Series driver this year. Watkins Glen is one of Allmendinger's best road courses. In addition to winning here in 2014, he finished in the top ten all but twice in his ten starts from 2010-2023 before going out early due to a transmission failure last year. However, Allmendinger's qualifying run of 18th is his worst here since 2009, so it's possible he might run worse here than usual. His 24th-place practice time wasn't inspiring either, but his 10th-place average speed was a little better. You can probably count on Allmendinger finishing better than he starts and getting some Place Differential points, but it seems a lot less likely that he'll win or dominate than it might have a couple years ago.--Sean Wrona - RotoBaller
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