70 Facts About Justin Allgaier

Justin Myrl Allgaier was born on June 6,1986 and is an American professional stock car racing driver.

Justin Allgaier competes full-time in the NASCAR Xfinity Series, driving the No 7 Chevrolet Camaro for JR Motorsports.

Justin Allgaier began stock car racing at thirteen in the UMP Late Model Series, where he competed for three seasons.

Justin Allgaier ran two additional races for Kerry Scherer and Bob Schacht, with a best finish of eleventh.

Justin Allgaier ran additional ARCA races in 2003, making six starts in the No 86 owned by his father Mike.

Justin Allgaier had a sixth-place finish in his second start at Toledo Speedway, and later the best finish of third at Salem Speedway.

In 2005, Justin Allgaier ran seven races in ARCA, splitting time between cars owned by Hixson Motorsports and Bobby Gerhart Racing.

Justin Allgaier won his first career pole at Springfield, setting a new track record, and had four top-five finishes.

Justin Allgaier failed to make five races and did not finish higher than 26th.

In 2006, Justin Allgaier made his first full-time run in ARCA, ending 10th.

Justin Allgaier got his first career win at the Illinois State Fairgrounds Racetrack, becoming the first Springfield area resident to win in the 72-year history of championship auto racing at the fairgrounds.

Justin Allgaier made three more Truck races for MB and had a twenty-first-place finish at Kansas Speedway.

Justin Allgaier won two features in a midget car at Angell Park Speedway and placed 3rd in the Chili Bowl behind Tony Stewart and JJ Yeley.

Justin Allgaier returned for another full season in ARCA in 2008, driving for his family team .

Justin Allgaier won six races, including the final three, and won the series championship by a slim margin.

Justin Allgaier broke Frank Kimmel's eight-year streak of winning the championship in that series.

Justin Allgaier returned to NASCAR, finishing 21st in a Truck race at Kentucky Speedway.

In May 2008, Justin Allgaier signed a contract with Penske Racing to drive four races in their No 12 Dodge in the NASCAR Nationwide Series in the final part of the year.

Justin Allgaier was then signed to drive the car full-time in 2009.

In 2010, Justin Allgaier had a similar season, but would win his first Nationwide Series race at Bristol Motor Speedway on March 20 and improve to fourth in the standings at the end of the year.

Justin Allgaier was the highest-finishing series regular in the series standings that year, as the top three finishers in points were all full-time Cup Series drivers.

Justin Allgaier was rumored to be moving up to the Sprint Cup Series in 2011 with Penske to drive the No 12 Cup car, replacing Brad Keselowski, who was moving to the team's No 2 car.

However, Penske had to shut down the No 12 due to lack of sponsorship, and Justin Allgaier would remain in the Nationwide Series, moving to Turner Motorsports where he would drive the team's new No 31 Chevrolet Impala.

Justin Allgaier almost won at Road America but ran out of fuel on the caution on the final lap and finished 19th.

In 2012, Justin Allgaier returned to the renamed Turner Scott Motorsports; he passed Jacques Villeneuve on the final lap to win the NAPA Auto Parts 200 at Circuit Gilles Villeneuve in Montreal, Quebec.

Justin Allgaier finished 27th in his debut, and ran races for the team later in the year at Kansas Speedway, Talladega Superspeedway and Phoenix International Raceway.

In January 2014, it was announced that Justin Allgaier would compete full-time for Rookie of the Year in the 2014 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series, driving for the now-renamed HScott Motorsports in the No 51 Chevrolet SS.

Justin Allgaier led 4 laps in the 2014 Daytona 500 and crashed with 7 laps to go.

At Talladega, Justin Allgaier nearly won his first Cup series victory in the Aaron's 499, running in the top five and contending victory with 9 laps to go.

Justin Allgaier lost drafting help from Kurt Busch and as a result, lost multiple spots, finishing 27th.

At Daytona in the Coke Zero 400, Justin Allgaier ran in the top ten early in the race.

Justin Allgaier, while trying to avoid wrecking, tapped Kyle Busch, who was already wrecking.

Justin Allgaier's contact caused Busch to come back onto the apron and be t-boned by Cole Whitt.

Justin Allgaier missed the field for the 2014 GEICO 500, failing to qualify for the first time in his Cup career.

However, in the following race at Martinsville, Justin Allgaier would take the lead late in the race, leading four laps and finishing 17th.

Justin Allgaier finished 29th in the Cup Series standings for 2014 and 3rd in the Rookie of the Year standings behind Austin Dillon and Kyle Larson.

Justin Allgaier began his season with a crash in the Daytona 500.

Justin Allgaier rebounded at Phoenix three weeks later, running in the top ten late.

The next week at Auto Club Speedway, Justin Allgaier ran as high as 8th and finished 12th-his career-best finish at the time.

Justin Allgaier scored his first top ten at Bristol in the No 51, finishing 8th.

Justin Allgaier then finished 18th at Richmond after spending most of the race running as high as second, and while suffering from a stomach cramp.

Justin Allgaier had some good runs at short tracks such as the second Bristol race, and both Martinsville races but failed to record another top ten.

On October 2,2015, it was announced that Justin Allgaier parted ways with HScott Motorsports, and was replaced in 2016 by Clint Bowyer.

On October 28,2015, it was announced that Justin Allgaier would take his sponsor Brandt to drive the No 7 for JR Motorsports full-time in the Xfinity Series season in 2016, replacing Regan Smith.

Justin Allgaier finished 30th in the Cup Series standings, one spot short of matching his career-best season result.

Justin Allgaier picked up 2 top tens in the next 2 races at Atlanta and Las Vegas.

Justin Allgaier led 15 laps in Atlanta and finished 9th in Las Vegas.

Justin Allgaier later finished second yet again at the Food City 300 after passing Kyle Larson on the final lap to place second to Austin Dillon, his third runner-up finish of the season.

Justin Allgaier got into a crash with Kyle Busch when Justin Allgaier wrecked at the same time as Busch.

Justin Allgaier made his Porsche GT3 Cup Brasil debut in 2016 as a co-driver for a team that is sponsored by his NASCAR Xfinity Series sponsor, Brandt Agriculture.

Justin Allgaier made two starts in the Brandt-sponsored No 7 Porsche with Miguel Paludo as the driver, both of which were in endurance races, the Goionia and Interlagos races.

Justin Allgaier continued with JR Motorsports for the 2017 NASCAR Xfinity Series.

Justin Allgaier led late in the DC Solar 200 at Phoenix and took the lead from Austin Dillon with less than 30 laps to go and held off Ryan Blaney on a final restart to win his first race in five years.

Justin Allgaier returned in the No 7 for the 2018 NASCAR Xfinity Series season.

Justin Allgaier then went on to earn his third win of the season at Mid-Ohio and at Road America two weeks later, he earned his fourth win of the season as well as inherited the points lead after Christopher Bell had issues near the end and two weeks later at Indianapolis Motor Speedway after the race was delayed two days due to rain, he led a race-high 41 laps en route to his 5th win of the season.

Justin Allgaier finished fifth in his sole Porsche GT3 Cup Brasil start, again at Interlagos, again teaming with Paludo.

Justin Allgaier, believing that the move was intentional, sent Chastain into the guardrail in that same portion of the track later in the race, forcing Chastain out of the event.

Chastain said that his end of the incident was a mistake on his part while Justin Allgaier cited instances at Daytona earlier in 2019 and Las Vegas in 2019 as proof that Chastain was a dirty driver.

Again, Justin Allgaier made starts in the Porsche GT3 Cup Brasil Endurance rounds as Paludo's co-driver when dates do not conflict.

Justin Allgaier won the final race of the Round of 8 at Phoenix to advance to the Championship 4, his 3rd appearance in the last four years and 1st victory of the season after five 2nd-place finishes throughout the year.

Justin Allgaier finished the 2019 season fourth in points after finishing 14th at Homestead.

Justin Allgaier finished 37th after being involved in a multi-car accident on pit road on lap 12.

Justin Allgaier finished out the season 6th in points, but due to good runs in the final races and misfortunes of his competitors, he made the Championship 4 for the sixth time in his career.

Justin Allgaier finished 2nd of the Championship 4 drivers in the finale at Phoenix Raceway, with 3 wins on the season.

Justin Allgaier had only one top 20 finish, a 14th-place finish at Las Vegas, in the first four races of the 2021 Xfinity season.

Justin Allgaier then won three races later for the first time at Darlington Raceway.

At Martinsville, Justin Allgaier finished 5th and was able to advance to the Championship 4 Race at Phoenix after Ty Gibbs wrecked Joe Gibbs Racing teammate Brandon Jones on the final overtime-lap for the race win.

Justin Allgaier went to Lincoln Land Community College where he majored in engineering from 2004 to 2006.

Justin Allgaier is married, to Ashley, and they have two daughters Harper and Willow.

Justin Allgaier is nicknamed "Little Gator" as a play on his last name and his father being dubbed "Gator".