Aric Almirola - NASCAR Cup Series Driver
Sports Spectrum Podcast
Sports Spectrum
4.9 • 685 Ratings
🗓️ 12 February 2021
⏱️ 37 minutes
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Summary
Aric Almirola is a race car driver on the NASCAR Cup Series driving the No. 10 car with Stewart-Haas Racing. Aric began racing nationally at the age of 14 and made his NASCAR debut in the NASCAR Sun Belt Weekly Racing Division in 2002 and finished second in Rookie of the Year standings that year.
Following in the footsteps of his grandfather Sam Rodriguez, who was a dirt sprint car driver, Aric has driven in NASCAR's Truck Series, Xfinity Series and currently with the Sprint Cup Series. His first career win came in 2014 at the Coke Zero 400 in the Sprint Cup Series. In 2018, he had his best finish in the Cup Series placing 5th overall.
Today on the podcast, we talk to Aric about his journey of racing, his testimony of faith in Jesus, living that faith out as a NASCAR driver and what its like to drive in the Daytona 500.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Sports Spectrum, the Sports and Faith podcast that brings Jesus back into the conversation. |
| 0:13.6 | Here's your host, Jason Romano. |
| 0:16.3 | What's up, guys? Welcome to Sports Spectrum. I am Jason Romano. I'm so excited to welcome our guest today, Eric |
| 0:22.2 | Al Marolla. He is a NASCAR Cup series driver driving the number 10 car with Stuart Haas Racing. |
| 0:27.3 | And we got the Daytona 500 coming up on Sunday, February 14th. And Eric is a really great dude. |
| 0:34.8 | We spent some time before and after the interview talking as well. |
| 0:38.0 | And he's got a great story, a great testimony, and a great heart for people. And he's doing |
| 0:43.0 | some good things on the track, too. And I'm excited to watch him in 2021 and excited for you guys |
| 0:47.7 | to hear his story here today on the show. Before we get to Eric and our conversation with him, |
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