Young gun to drive Penske's winning vehicle at Road America - Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
AJ Allmendinger and Alex Tagliani have both won at Road America in Indy cars. Allmendinger evolved into one of the best stock-car road racers of this generation, and Tagliani is very, very good. And in NASCAR events held on tracks that turn both left and right, he has a winning percentage higher than any of his predecessors in the Team Penske No. 22 Xfinity Series car. "I'll remind you he went door to door last year for the last half a lap at Mosport to win the truck race, Ryan did," crew chief Greg Erwin said. while his road-course style may not be that of AJ, it may not be that of Tagliani, he's going to be able to do a good job or as good a job of communicating what he feels in the car. In the five years of competition in the then-Nationwide and now-Xfinity Series at Road America, Penske's No. 22 entry has finished no worse than sixth, in 2012, with Villeneuve. And he did lead 10 laps on a day no one was going to catch Nelson Piquet Jr. Allmendinger won in 2013, leading a race-high 29 laps, and Tagliani put on a clinic last year when cutting through the field to second in two laps after running out of gas. Now here comes Blaney, a versatile Penske development driver racing a part-time schedule in Xfinity, Sprint Cup with the Wood Brothers and the Camping World Truck Series with the team Keselowski owns. Source: www.jsonline.com
