AJ Allmendinger admits it has been a challenging season, but he hopes to finish the 2025 campaign on a high note in Sunday’s NASCAR Cup season finale and championship-deciding race at Phoenix Raceway.

“When you’re in a position like ours, trying to just grow the race team and get it better, sometimes it’s hard to just look at the result and say, ‘Okay, it’s A or B, right, like happy or not happy,’” Allmendinger exclusively told EssentiallySports . “I think there’s a lot of positives in our year.

“We’ve had a lot of speed at a lot of different types of racetracks, speed that maybe previously we didn’t have at those racetracks. So on that end of it, I think it’s a very positive year because we have made a lot of gains compared to last year, or even the last time I was full time in Cup (2

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