AJ Allmendinger

 Anthony Allmendinger was born in Los Gatos, California on December 16th 1981. He currently is racing for Richard Petty Motorsports and drives #43 Best Buy Ford Fusion in the Sprint Cup Series. You might remember Anthony for his great achievements in the Champ Car World, where he scored a run of 6 top-6 finishes in 2004. Also towards the end of the season, he won the Roshfrans Rookie of the year award. In 2006 he became the first American to win a Champ Car World Series event, besides Ryan Hunter who held this title in 2004 at The Milwaukee Mile. In September of 2006 Anthony started driving for Bill Davis Racing, and made his debut in the Craftsman Truck Series at New Hampshire International Speedway. He ended up not qualifying in that race due to crashing his primary truck, however finished 5th at Talladega Speedway the following month. In 2007 after having three failures to qualify, he was replaced by Mike Skinner. This was temporary, and Anthony returned to the Cup Series at Talledega. However, after these minor setbacks he went on to win the Sprint Showdown at Lowe’s Motor Speedway. This was during the NASCAR’s annual All-Star weekend, and winning that event qualified him for the Sprint All-Star Race where he finished 17th. In 2009 Anthony’s team had several sponsors from Dodge, to Valvoline. AJ had his best race at the Daytona 500 Debut, and was one of two drivers to successfully attempt the first five races of the 2009 season. Anthony and Tony Stewart were considered to be the two-go-or-go home drivers in NASCAR. Later that year Mooresville, NC police arrested Anthony for drunk driving and he was placed on probation by NASCAR for the rest of 2009 season.