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Team: Richard Petty Motorsports-43
Age / DOB:  (29) / 3/14/1984
Ht / Wt:  6'0' / 160

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To qualify for the All-Star Race, Aric Almirola and the No. 43 Smithfield Ford team will have to finish first or second in the Sprint Showdown 40-lap qualifier race.
He can also be voted in by the Sprint Fan Vote. Fans can go to www.nascar.com/SprintFanVote or NASCAR Sprint Cup Mobile '13, where votes count twice, until May 18. Almirola has made two starts in his Sprint Cup career at Charlotte. He won the pole for the Coca-Cola 600 last May. In the fall event, he started 17th and finished 12th. Almirola also has seven Nationwide starts at the 1.5-mile track with an average finish of 13th and two truck starts with an average finish of eighth.-Breaking Limits May 14 - 7:59 PM

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Aric Almirola - Richard Petty Motorsports-43

Aric Almirola and the No. 43 Smithfield Ford team are looking to make history this weekend at Darlington Raceway with a fifth consecutive top-10 finish.

If the team can finish in the top-10, it will mark the first time that the Petty-owned No. 43 has more than four consecutive top-10 finishes since Richard Petty posted seven consecutive top-10s in 1983. It will also mark the first time Richard Petty Motorsports has posted five consecutive top-10 finishes. Almirola made his Darlington debut last season with the No. 43 team, where he started in the 13th spot and finished 19th.-Breaking Limits
May 7 - 8:40 PM
Aric Almirola - Richard Petty Motorsports-43

Heading to sponsor Smithfield's home track, Aric Almirola looks to tally his third consecutive top-10 finish for the first time in his Sprint Cup career.

The No. 43 Smithfield Ford team comes off a seventh and eighth-place finish in the last two races. Almirola has two Sprint Cup starts at Richmond, both last season, and has five Nationwide starts at the .75-mile track. He collected his best Richmond finish of seventh in the fall Nationwide race in 2011.-Breaking Limits
Apr 23 - 8:06 PM
Aric Almirola - Richard Petty Motorsports-43

Returning for its first of six primary events, Eckrich, part of the John Morrell Food Group, a subsidiary of Smithfield Foods, will once again be featured on the hood and sides of the famed No. 43.

Eckrich will once again use the partnership with RPM and Operation Homefront to honor military veterans and their families. Almirola heads to Ft. Worth with four starts under his belt. Last fall, he started 14th and finished 15th with the No. 43 Eckrich Ford team.-Richard Petty Motorsports
Apr 9 - 8:21 PM
Aric Almirola - Richard Petty Motorsports-43

Aric Almirola and the No. 43 Jani-King/STP Ford team improved their finishing position by four spots from the spring to fall Martinsville races last season, eighth and fourth, respectively.

The last time the iconic No. 43 won was when John Andretti drove the No. 43 STP car to victory lane at Martinsville Speedway in 1999. The No. 43 has a solid history at the .526-mile track as it holds the most wins at Martinsville Speedway with 16 wins, 15 captured by Richard Petty himself. Almirola's paint scheme will commemorate STP's relationship with Petty and the first time the STP logo was on Petty's car at Riverside in 1972.-Breaking Limits
Apr 2 - 3:16 PM
Aric Almirola - Richard Petty Motorsports-43

After falling in the point standings following an incident in Bristol, Aric Almirola and the No. 43 team are determined to climb back up the point standings.

Almirola will make his ninth NASCAR series start at the Auto Club Speedway this weekend in the No. 43 Farmland Ford. The Richard Petty Motorsports driver looks to surpass his best California finish of sixth, which he posted in 2010 in the Nationwide Series, in Sunday's Auto Club 400.-Breaking Limits
Mar 19 - 8:50 PM
Aric Almirola - Richard Petty Motorsports-43

Aric Almirola will make his eighth start at Bristol (Tenn.) Motor Speedway this weekend in the No. 43 Smithfield Ford.

Almirola posted his best finish of eighth at the .53-mile short track in 2008. Sitting 10th in points, the No. 43 Smithfield Ford teams looks for another solid finish in the Sprint Cup Series' fourth race of the season.-Breaking Limits
Mar 12 - 8:50 PM
Aric Almirola - Richard Petty Motorsports-43

Aric Almirola is 10th in the standings with 60 points; 30 points behind leader Jimmie Johnson.

In the Kobalt Tools 400, Almirola's crew worked on the No. 43 Ford throughout the race and kept the driver on the lead lap. Almirola remains in the top 10 through three races after Sunday's 16th-place finish. In seven starts at Bristol, he has one top 10. For point-paying races in the past eight years at Bristol, Almirola ranks 29th out of 47 drivers with an average place of 25.6.-NASCAR.com
Mar 11 - 4:23 PM
Aric Almirola - Richard Petty Motorsports-43

Aric Almirola is eager to head to the first intermediate track of the year, the Las Vegas Motor Speedway.

After posting the fastest time in January testing at the similar Charlotte Motor Speedway, the team has confidence it can be fast this weekend. The No. 43 Farmland Ford team finished the 2012 season with solid finishes at intermediate tracks and showed at the Charlotte test that their intermediate program is still strong with the new car. Almirola will make his fifth start at the Nevada track this weekend.-Richard Petty Motorsports
Mar 5 - 12:39 PM
Aric Almirola - Richard Petty Motorsports-43

Aric Almirola heads to the one-mile Phoenix International Raceway 13th in the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series point standings following a 13th-place finish in the Daytona 500.

The 28-year-old driver will make his fifth Sprint Cup start at the track. He looks to best his career, track-high finish of 12th place, which he posted last spring with the No. 43 Farmland Ford team, in Sunday's Subway Fresh Fit 500.-Richard Petty Motorsports
Feb 27 - 8:28 PM
Aric Almirola - Richard Petty Motorsports-43

After further evaluation by two different doctors in North Carolina, it has been determined that Michael Annett has suffered a fracture and dislocation of his sternum.

He will immediately undergo surgery for his injuries in Charlotte. He suffered the injury as a result of an accident during Saturday's Nationwide Series event in Daytona. Annett will not be able to compete for an indefinite amount of time as he heals from the surgery. Richard Petty Motorsports driver Aric Almirola will drive the Nationwide Series No. 43 Pilot Flying J Ford this weekend at the Phoenix as the team evaluates its options moving forward.-Richard Petty Motorsports
Feb 26 - 7:26 PM
Aric Almirola - Richard Petty Motorsports-43

Aric Almirola has the best 10-lap consecutive average speed in Happy Hour practice for the Sprint Cup Daytona 500 at Daytona International Speedway.

His average speed of 196.195 mph in the No. 43 Ford Fusion was best of the 14 cars that ran 10 consecutive laps on the track for this final practice session. No. 55 Mark Martin, No. 56 Martin Truex Jr., No. 18 Kyle Busch and No. 15 Clint Bowyer were the rest of the top five on this list.
Feb 23 - 1:00 PM
Aric Almirola - Richard Petty Motorsports-43

Aric Almirola led the fifth practice for the Sprint Cup Daytona 500 at Daytona International Speedway.

He ran a fast lap of 196.941 mph in the No. 43 Ford Fusion. No. 31 Jeff Burton, No. 88 Dale Earnhardt Jr., No. 47 Bobby Labonte and No. 98 Michael McDowell rounded out the rest of the top 5 on the speed chart for this practice. David Ragan in the No. 34 was the slowest of the 14 cars out on the track.
Feb 22 - 2:45 PM
Aric Almirola - Richard Petty Motorsports-43

Martinsville Speedway and the STP® brand announced a multi-year entitlement sponsorship agreement.

The sponsorship kicks off with the STP® Gas Booster™ 500 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series race scheduled for April 7, 2013 at the historic Virginia track. In addition to sponsoring the race, the STP® brand will be a co-primary sponsor of Richard Petty Motorsports and the No. 43 Jani-King STP Ford Fusion driven by Aric Almirola at the Martinsville spring race. The paint scheme will be commemorative of the first time the STP® logo was on Petty's car at Riverside in 1972.-Richard Petty Motorsports
Feb 21 - 11:41 AM
Aric Almirola - Richard Petty Motorsports-43

To ensure that "The King" Richard Petty, driver Aric Almirola and the No. 43 race team are appropriately "fueled" for the Daytona 500, team sponsor Smithfield will host Iron Chef judge and author Simon Majumdar, and Executive Chef and Food Network star Michele Ragussis at the Daytona International Speedway during the 2013 Daytona 500 race weekend.

The two celebrity chefs will prepare a customized lunch menu - including Bacon Cubans and Hong Kong Pork Chop Sandwiches - which feature a variety of delicious and flavorful Smithfield products. Lunch will be served for the team following Saturday's race practice and will provide a photo opportunity.-Richard Petty Motorsports
Feb 15 - 8:02 PM