Aric Almirola: Can the King’s No. 43 Finally Win Again in the Coca-Cola 600?

Aric Almirola didn't just win the pole for the Coca-Cola 600 on Thursday night at Charlotte Motor Speedway. He blew the field away. The driver of Richard Petty's famed No. 43 car stunned the field with a blistering lap of 27.988 seconds, two-tenths of a second faster than the rest of the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series field. It was Almirola's first Sprint Cup pole and it comes in his first race at the 1.5-mile track in Concord, N.C. The Tampa, Fla., native was understandably pumped up after his qualifying run. "To get a pole in any race, that's saying something, because none of these guys lay down," Almirola said in the RPM post-qualifying report. "But to get it by two-tenths (of a second), that's like 'Wow.'  I&rsqu...

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