NASCAR driver AJ Allmendinger blows up at engine manufacturer 6 laps into race

A.J. Allmendinger had a pugnacious clip during Sunday’s AdventHealth 400 astatine Kansas Speedway connected Sunday.

The NASCAR Cup Series operator blew a gasket internally arsenic his motor struggled to prime up the gait wrong the archetypal six laps of the race. He took a changeable astatine his team’s motor shaper portion driving, and it was heard connected the radio. He told his squad helium had mislaid the engine.

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AJ Allmendinger greets fans during operator introductions earlier the Wurth 400, May 4, 2025, astatine the Texas Motor Speedway successful Fort Worth. (Austin McAfee/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images)

"Hey ECR, you guys f---ing suck," Allmendinger was heard saying of the company.

Allmendinger finished 38th.

ECR Engines powers Richard Childress Racing, Trackhouse Racing, Kaulig Racing and Beard Motorsports connected the Cup Series circuit. 

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AJ Allmendinger drives during the Wurth 400 astatine Texas Motor Speedway connected May 4, 2025. (Jerome Miron-Imagn Images)

The institution besides powers Xfinity Series teams, including Jordan Anderson Racing, Big Machine Racing, Our Motorsports, Cope Family Racing, Viking Motorsports, Young’s Motorsports and Alpha Prime Racing.

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Allmendinger drives for Kaulig Racing. He enactment unneurotic 3 top-10 finishes this play and has been competing for a imaginable changeable astatine the NASCAR Cup Series playoffs this season. 

But a dead-last decorativeness astatine Kansas Speedway pushed him backmost six places to 25th successful the standings. He finished 36th astatine Texas past week and 24th astatine Talladega a fewer weeks ago.

AJ Allmendinger drives during signifier and qualifying astatine the Darlington Raceway, April 5, 2025, successful Darlington, S.C. (Jim Dedmon-Imagn Images)

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Kyle Larson picked up the triumph astatine Kansas. It’s the 3rd of the play and his 2nd consecutive astatine the track. He present has a 35-point pb implicit William Byron.

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