NASCAR's AJ Allmendinger: Pursuing Excellence on the Track and in the Field

Over the last six years at Kaulig Racing, Matt Kaulig and Chris Rice have built a winning Xfinity series program, bringing in veteran NASCAR driver AJ Allmendinger to lead them to a series of big wins this year and positioning them to compete for a championship in Phoenix. Similarly, growers are building, growing and planning sustainability in their farming operations year over year as well, prioritizing long-term success. Nutrien Ag Solutions is proud to be a sponsor of Allmendinger's #16 Chevy Camaro, because he exemplifies the hard work and determination that it takes to find success in the field. So in this episode, Tom and Sally visit with AJ in the infield at the Charlotte Motor Speedway, a few hours before his thrilling comeback win in the Bank of America ROVAL 400. He tells us what it means to represent agriculture on the track, how cooperation and hard work power success in both the worlds of racing and farming, and how he's positioning himself to bring home a championship this year in Phoenix.

Episode Transcript

A.J. Allmendinger:

"Seeing what Nutrien Ag Solutions has done growing with the Kaulig family, it was a lot of fun to be able to pull into victory lane. I'm not a farmer. I've never been around it. So to be able to understand what Nutrien Ag Solutions means to not only us but all throughout the world really, I've learned a lot and the best way I can repay them is going out there and trying to win races."

Dusty Weis:

Welcome to The Future. Faster., a sustainable agriculture podcast by Nutrien Ag Solutions with our very own Tom Daniel, Director North America Retail and Grower Sustainable Ag and Dr. Sally Flis, Senior manager, North America's Sustainable Ag and Carbon. This is your opportunity to learn about the next horizon in sustainable agriculture for growers, for partners, for the planet. To us, it's not about changing what's always worked, it's about continuing to do the little things that make a big impact.

On this week's episode, we're at the Charlotte Motor Speedway with NASCAR driver A.J. Allmendinger, who drives the number 16 Nutrien Ag Solutions Chevy Camaro for Kaulig Racing in the Xfinity Series. We'll talk about what it means to represent agriculture on the track, how cooperation and hard work power success in both the worlds of racing and farming, and how he's positioning himself to bring home a championship this year in Phoenix. But if you haven't yet, make sure you're subscribed to this podcast in your favorite app. Also, make sure to follow Nutrien Ag solutions on Facebook and Instagram.

I'm Dusty Weis, along with Tom Daniel and Sally Flis and we're joined today by A.J. Allmendinger, driver of the number 16 Nutrien Ag Solutions Chevy Camaro at Kaulig Racing. A.J., thanks for joining us.

A.J. Allmendinger:

Oh, thanks for having me.

Dusty Weis:

First and foremost, Nutrien Ag Solutions entered the Xfinity NASCAR series in 2019. Now in 2022, in your first year as the driver of the number 16 Nutrien Ag Solutions Chevy Camaro, you secured our first win at Circuit of the Americas. What did it mean for you and the team at Kaulig Racing for you to secure that first win for a multi-year sponsor?

A.J. Allmendinger:

It was a big deal, especially for me, anytime I get a new sponsor. Of course you want to win for them right away. Just being a part of the Kaulig family and seeing what Nutrien Ag Solutions has done growing with the Kaulig family, it was a lot of fun to be able to pull in the Victory Lane, and that's what's always special about it.

When you have people from that company standing there in Victory Lane, being able to share it with you, it means a lot. I think we had a good time with it and we've been able to build off of that. It's been very important for me, because I've always made it a point to say, "I'm not a farmer, I've never been around it." To be able to understand on the side of what Nutrien Ag Solutions means to not only us but all throughout the world. Really, I've learned a lot. Then the best way I can repay them is going out there and trying to win races and getting that name on TV even more.

Tom Daniel:

A.J., you got a chance to come out to Boone, Iowa, and we had the event out there at the Farm Progress Show just a few weeks ago I think. You visited many Race Suites ahead of the Green Flag. You'll come into our suite and talk to our customers and our retail guys that are at the race experience. What's your impression of the individuals that you're driving for now you're driving for Nutrien Ag Solutions, so what's your opinion of the people that you've met and that you're representing on race day now?

A.J. Allmendinger:

It's always fun to go to the suite and to be able to meet different people. It's a lot like I'm doing with Nutrien Ag Solutions of learning what you all go through and you know what you bring to this world. Quite honestly for a lot of you, what your lives have been, because you kind of grow up into this or you have a passion for it right away, and this is the path that you choose. It's fun to be able to share my passion and bring new people in to understand, "Okay, this is what I do every weekend and this is what I've grown up doing," Especially for people that have never been to a NASCAR race or doesn't know what it's all about or aren't fans and maybe you make new fans because of it.

It's always a lot of fun to go to the suite and we always have a lot of people in there and that's what makes it great for me. You know, got one or two people in there, it's like, okay, you know, talk to them and you leave. But when you have a huge group of people to be able to share that passion with, it makes it a lot of fun for me and I don't need any more added motivation, but it doesn't hurt either. You meet all those people, it just gives you that little extra motivation to go out there and try to get the job done that day.

Sally Flis:

A.J., you have brought the Nutrien Ag Solutions paint scheme to Victory Lane three times on road courses this year, and you're mentioning that path, that upbringing in your race career. How has that led to your success on these road courses with the Nutrien Ag Solutions car?

A.J. Allmendinger:

I'll be the first one to say I was quite mad that I missed at Daytona by about two inches.

Sally Flis:

That was an exciting race.

A.J. Allmendinger:

It's like I really thought that that was going to be the..

Tom Daniel:

That was super.

A.J. Allmendinger:

I was like, "Okay, yep, this is the way we're going to do this right away. I'm going to be Nutrien Ag Solutions for life at this point. Win at Daytona, my first race." I was so disappointed to miss it by that much. But my life has grown up on road courses. I started off, technically I actually wanted to race motocross. That was the first thing I wanted to do. I started off in BMX bicycles and when I was eight years old I was like, "I'm ready for a motorcycle." She was like, "That's not happening. We're going to go the four wheel side of it." I raced go-karts for several years and then actually raced Indy cars to start off with. That was where my career path took me and then I switched to NASCAR.

The road courses have always been my background. I enjoy them because I feel like a driver... you still have to have a good car, but you can make a little bit more of a difference on a road course, especially if the car's not good, you get a little bit more out of it. That's what I've always enjoyed doing, is trying to get that little bit extra that maybe somebody else can't get in the car on a road course. I put a lot of work into it. I've always put a lot of work into it and more than anything, I think we all feel like when you show up to a place or a job, or for us, a specific type of racetrack that you love, you already come in with a good attitude and know that you can go out there and go win that race.

Dusty Weis:

I get the sense talking to you that you're the kind of person that's always looking for perfection. We bring up a win and you're like, "Yeah, but what about that one that I didn't win?" I want to point out, you've now secured back to back Xfinity series, regular season championships, something that you ought to feel good about, but also what does that say about the program that you and Kaulig have been building over these past few years and the way that you've been racing?

A.J. Allmendinger:

I didn't know anything about Matt Kaulig and Chris Rice before I came here. I'd watched Kaulig Racing at that point for about three years and kind of saw the growth of where they were going and really liked what they kind of had planned for, because I feel like sometimes you come into this sport and as a team owner you want to grow too quick. You see all these organizations that have three or four cars and you feel like, "Okay, that's what we got to do."

Well, Kaulig Racing didn't do that. They were a single car team for three to four years and they would add a second car and then that kind of led to a third car to where we are now. But more than anything, I've loved that I feel like I'm part of that growth. It's a small part, but I've helped this team grow. We're growing together. I say it daily now that I feel like I'm the best I've ever been in a race car, where I'm at in my life and we're doing that together.

It's fun to be able to share all these wins that we've had. If you count the two regular season championships, I think in the four years we have 15 trophies and that's what this team's all about, trophy hunting. That's Matt Kaulig's motto. That's a lot of race wins and two regular season championships. The way NASCAR does these championships now, it's exciting for the fan. You go to the final race, if you're part of that final four, you're racing three other drivers and everything's on the line for that one race. In the Xfinity Series, we have 33 races, the Cup season's 36 races. To win regular season championships to me is a big deal, because you do that over a 26 race period of executing and making your really bad days better than the other ones. Those regular season championships mean a lot. Of course you want to win the overall championship, get to Phoenix, be one of those final four and win the overall championship. But to me those regular season championships are a big deal, because that's 26 races, two years in a row that we've been the best team.

Dusty Weis:

What's cool about it to me is one little word that you use when you're talking about it. You don't talk about the program that they're building, you talk about the program that we are building and that to me, that just sends all the right messages. It sounds like there's a good team, there's a good mentality on the team and you guys obviously have great things ahead and we're going to talk about those coming up in a second. Here on the podcast, we do spend a lot of time talking about leaving a legacy for the future, so we want to talk to you about that legacy that's getting built at Kaulig. But first we've got to step away for a quick break and then we'll be right back with more from NASCAR driver, A.J. Allmendinger here on The Future. Faster.

This is The Future. Faster., a sustainable agriculture podcast by Nutrien Ag Solutions. I'm Dusty Weis, along with Tom Daniel and Sally Flis and we're here at the Charlotte Motor Speedway with A.J. Allmendinger, driver of the number 16 Nutrien Ag Solutions Chevy Camaro. A.J., what Matt Kaulig, Chris Rice, drivers like yourself, all the employees have built at Kaulig Racing in the last six years, it's impressive to say the least. Building a winning Xfinity series program and then entering the Cup series full time this year. Similarly, our grower customers are building and then growing their farming operations year over year as well. What have you enjoyed about the process of building and establishing Kaulig Racing?

A.J. Allmendinger:

At the end of the day, I think if you do it around people that you enjoy and that have the same passion and just the same interest as you of where you see that company that you work for going, that's what makes it the most fun and the most rewarding, just because. Matt Kaulig and Chris Rice, it's their program. They're the ones that have started it.

Obviously Matt's the team owner, it's his money and Chris Rice has been there since day one. But when you get around the men and women that have the same passion that all believe in each other, we know how it goes. We can all have different opinions at times and open discussions, maybe arguments if you want to go that direction, but at the end of the day, if you know that you're going to war with those people and no matter what, you have each other's backs and there's no finger pointing through the good or bad days, that's what makes it the most fun and the most rewarding.

I think that's what I have really enjoyed about Kaulig Racing, is I push myself as hard and I’m as hard on myself as anybody on this planet. It's one of those things that they have my back, they know that I'm giving everything I have, whether I'm frustrated in the race car during the race or after the race, but all the men and women, you go back to the shop on Monday and you get ready for the next week and that's what it's all about. I love what we've built and more importantly, I love what we can keep building and keep winning trophies and maybe championships.

Sally Flis:

That's similar to where we're at, Tom. I mean our Nutrien Ag Solution sustainable ag team is almost two years old and it's been a lot of that same kind of building and transition and how do we rely on each other. At least between Tom and I, sometimes people might call them arguments on the phone over direction that we should go, but we all work towards that same common goal of building that sustainable ag future. As you've transitioned to a team that is in this establishment phase versus your past associations, how has that been different from coming into a team that's already established to being able to help build a team in Kaulig Racing?

A.J. Allmendinger:

I've been very fortunate to drive for Roger Penske, drive for Richard Petty, teams like that, that you walk in the shop and you're blown away because you see all the history on the walls. It's one of those things where in a way it can be a little intimidating, right? Because you walk in, you're like, "Wow, look at the history here." You just want to be part of that history. That's what I always said, driving for Roger Penske. I was like, "I just want to be on that wall somehow." They have all these wins. They have 19 Borg-Warner trophies, Indianapolis 500 winning trophies, sitting right there when you walk in and you're like, "Whew," that can be intimidating. You just want to be part of that history.

When you come to an organization that doesn't have a lot of history and you can write that together. Me, where I'm at in my life now in my career that's what’s truly inspiring, I want to be the one that starts writing this history and being a part of this and hopefully 20 years down the line when they're so established and have so many wins, young drivers are walking in and seeing my picture up on the wall and, "Okay, that's where it started and that's where I want to get to."

That's what I think keeps pushing me. That's what I love about it. More than anything, when you go to a company and you all know this, that people are going to have voices and people are going to have opinions and maybe sometimes they don't go the direction you think that you should go, but if you have a voice and you all can work together at least to get to that same end road of what you want to help make the company bigger, that's when you can have a lot of fun with it. That's what Kaulig Racing has been about. That's why I've really enjoyed being here.

Tom Daniel:

A.J., a lot of times in our discussions today, we hear the word team over and over again. Just a lot of discussion about the well-functioning team. Well a farming operation very much has a team too, a support group that brings everything together, that allows that grower to get to the production level he's trying to get to his economic sustainability or whatever it may be.

We're talking about not only the crop consultant, but having the ability to have product available when he needs it and how he needs it, to have a custom applicator, which could be the truck driver that brings it to the field. There's multiple different steps, including even the mechanics that work on all the equipment. When you think about a well-functioning team and you think about Kaulig Racing in general, what's your characteristics that you would see of a well-functioning team?

A.J. Allmendinger:

Well at this organization, sure it's the Kaulig Racing team, but at the end of the day, it's actually the family. That's what I've really loved about this race team, because a lot of teams could say, "Oh yeah, we're family," but the family's broken inside. Maybe it doesn't get out, but you see it at the shops and things like that.

Matt and Chris truly care about their people. I learned that firsthand during the pandemic when teams were shutting down or teams were laying off people or teams were cutting pay, that was the first thing that Matt said right away. Said, "Don't worry about it. Everybody's getting paid. Everybody's got families at home. This isn't their fault that we're going through this." Fortunately, Matt's in the position that he's worked hard to grow Lee Filter and all the other businesses now that he's associated with, that he's able to do that and take care of the people, but he doesn't have to.

It was not established to the point where he had to go do that. That was out of his own pocket and making sure that everybody was taken care of. That's a family, and that starts with Matt Kaulig. That trickles down inside the race team. When people see that, they want to be part of it, and when people love the person that they work for, they're going to work harder. You want everybody to give 100%, but all it takes is one person giving 95% and that starts breaking up to the next person and the next person that carries on down.

Just like anything, we got 65, 70 mechanics at the shop. If one starts just, "Ah, I'm not going to worry about that piece of the race car," that's a trickle down effect. Unfortunately it gets to me where my life's on the line. I think that's what it really comes down to, is making sure everybody's in it together and everybody understands that each person cares about each other, each person's willing to help each other to get to the end result of trying to win races.

Tom Daniel:

A.J., before you got here today, we were having some discussions with some of the team members from Kaulig Racing and they described Matt as being a pay it forward kind of guy, in fact, to the point that he's interested in bringing young talent into the racing teams and so forth and so on. He's not only interested in the here and now, but he's interested in what's coming in the future. To me, that's a huge example of a guy who's willing to pay it forward and has concern about the next generation and our farming customers that we deal with. It's about the sons and the daughters are the different ones that we're paying it forward to. Would you describe Matt as a pay it forward kind of guy?

A.J. Allmendinger:

For sure. I think we live in a day and age where we all want it now. We have everything at our fingertips. The technology, you know, want to buy something, you go buy right now, you want to go do something, you go do it right now. I feel like farming's the same way, because you need results right away. People don't want to wait six months down the line, show me the results right now.

But unfortunately, sometimes the results right now are not what is best for the company three years from now. There's always that fine line of trying to figure out, "Okay, what can we do right now to make sure we have the result, but five years down the line, we're still in business?" I think that's where Matt is so good at looking at that. That's what happens when you start a company out of your basement.

I mean, heck, if you'd have told Matt, "Hey, you're going to make 2 million dollars this year out of your basement, but you know what, 10 years from now you're probably not going to have this company anymore." What would he do? Most of us have been like, "Give me the 2 million right now, I'll figure it out later."

Well, that's the way Matt looks at stuff. It's like, "Okay, no, I'm looking at the future. I want to see how big this thing's going to get." That's the way he runs the company. That's why you start with a single car and you stay a single car for three to four years and then you start adding them slowly and doing it the right way. What Matt has done and is doing and continually will do, is been fantastic for this company. That's a big part of the reason why I want to be here for a long time.

Sally Flis:

Well, and that very much parallels when we talk about sustainable planning in the field is yeah, you can do a practice this year to get an immediate result, but what's that doing to that whole operation, to that field, to the soil? Is it still going to be something that brings you value three to five years from now? It's a really parallel as we look at sustainability on the farm.

A.J. Allmendinger:

Yeah, I'm 40 years old and I've been in racing my whole life. I mean it's tougher than ever. For rookies, it's tough when they get in the race car. It used to always be, "Oh, your third year, if you hadn't figured it out, okay, then we're going to start looking at." I mean they look at it's like, if you haven't figured out in six months, okay, what's the next guy going to do?" The same thing goes with trying to make the race cars faster and everything that goes with that. Right now I feel like in everything that we do, it's probably the toughest time ever. We definitely have the most technology, the most things that we need at our fingertips, but it's also the easiest to make the wrong decisions really quick.

Sally Flis:

Well, and the technology is another one, Tom.

Tom Daniel:

Right.

Sally Flis:

Where we have so much technology in agriculture that if you're not using it right, it's just technology for technology's sake. I would imagine you guys see the same thing where it's, "Yeah, there's this cool new thing we can add on," but are we adding it on because it's a cool new thing, or because we're really going to put some value in the data or whatever it is that's coming out of that technology?

A.J. Allmendinger:

For sure. In that sense and then I feel like probably the same for you guys is the same for racing. You see this race team over here doing something different. You're like, "Well heck, we probably got to do that. Well we don't know that's the right thing to do, but might as well try that." You can easily go down a bad path and the next thing you know you're lost and you don't know how to get back there. It's easy to make a quick decision that's not always the right decision.

Dusty Weis:

We talk a lot ahead of planting season, especially about the need for having a well thought out plan and controlling what you can control, but then also being ready to improvise if the need arises, because inevitably it will, inevitably something is not going to go according to plan and you need to be able to move on your feet and stay with it too. Sometimes you've just got to send it.

We wanted to talk about a time recently when you just sent it, Bristol last year. I mean, we're talking about you guys probably game planned for that and game planned for that. At the end of the day, the reason that you slid sideways across the finish line, before anybody else did is because you just improvised and sent it. Take us through your head, what was going through your mind as you were coming into the final stretch there at Bristol?

A.J. Allmendinger:

Yeah, so it was the end of the regular season championship. It had been a battle between myself and Austin Cindric and we had I think a five or six point lead going into that race. If he didn't win the race and finished second, all I had to do was finish within five spots of them. Well unfortunately, like Austin Cindric had done many a times, they got hooked up during that race and he was going to win it.

We were running forth, we were having a really good night, but unfortunately it was a night that was going to make us second in the championship. Well, they had a two lap restart. I got to start inside him and I just made a decision in my head. I said, "I'm going to do whatever it takes to go win this thing." I made a move in three and four coming to the white flag that didn't work. We bounced off each other and it all kind of played out to where when we did that, another car got to the inside of us and I knew he wasn't going to make the corner. He slid wide and I took the lead down the back straight away. I looked in the mirror and I thought, "Well, Austin's still right behind me so this is going to get big coming to the checker."

I made the decision that in the middle of three and four, once I went to the throttle, I wasn't lifting again until we got across the line, how ever we got across the line. Because I knew after I'd run inside of him, payback was coming. As he started to hit me, I was like, "This is going to hurt, but I'm not lifting until I crossed the line and I hit the fence and I know I've got it." If you watch the replay, you can see the tire spinning forward.

Tom Daniel:

Oh, I did. I watched it over and over again.

A.J. Allmendinger:

Yeah, they're spinning forward, because I'm in the throttle until it crosses the finish line. Then I tried to hit the brakes as quick as possible, but it was quite big. The worst part of it was I was in the medical center after and my teammate Justin Haley is sitting there, I was like, "Dude, what happened to you?" He's like, "I ran into you after the checker." I was like, "Oh, that was you?" He was like, "Yeah." I was like, "We destroyed both cars?" He's like, "Destroyed." I was like, "Oh." I was like, "Well, at least we won."

But I have that in me no matter what. But for Kaulig Racing, that's what I'm willing to do. I'm willing to lay it on the line. I think that inspires all the men and women to see, "Hey, he's willing to put himself at risk to go try to win for us." That all goes back to that family atmosphere and that going to war together that they see it, I'm going to do what it takes. I know they're working as hard as that they can at the shop to be better.

You talk about improvising and maybe not going according to the plan. If you look at our season this year, you look at the stats, it's like holy moly, that's a great season. But there's been, I'd call it turmoil in the middle of the season, not inside the team, but turmoil in the sense that we haven't been as fast as we want to be and we've had to improvise and we've had to maximize on just a day that wasn't very good to make it better. That's why we won the regular season championships.

I think that's always a lesson in life. It's like it's not always going to go according to plan. You just got to figure out on that day or that week or that month, "How can we make the best of it, so hopefully down the line we keep getting better?" That's where we're at. We're still not as where we want to be, but we're getting better every race.

Sally Flis:

On October 5th, you guys announced that you're going to be going full time to Cup racing in 2023. What made this the right time to make that change and what's the planning that goes into making a change like that?

A.J. Allmendinger:

Yeah, this year has been a lot of fun because with the new Cup car I've been able to run 17 or 18 races or at the end of the year, that's kind of about how many I'll have run. I've actually enjoyed driving the race car. It's a fun car at least for me to drive. That was part of it, is like, "Okay, this car's enjoyable to drive and I wouldn't mind doing it full time." But truly at the end of the day I had told Matt Kaulig and Chris Rice, I said, "Whatever you want me to do for this company, I'll do it. If that's full-time Cup or full-time Xfinity or whatever you want me to do, that's what I want to do." We had a lot of discussions about it. It wasn't made over a week period of like, "Okay, let's just do this."

We went back and forth and that's what I love about Matt and Chris because the last time I was in Cup, I kind of got burnt out and that's why I thought I was going to the TV side of it. That's why I thought I was only going to be running a couple races for Kaulig Racing once they called. They're really in the mindset of they don't want me to get in that burnt out side ever again.

I'm different now and where I was four or five years ago. I don't really see that happening, but there's a lot of talks about it. But we just felt like this is the right time. The 16 car, which I've been driving this year in the cup side of it, we've been sharing it amongst three drivers. That car needs a full-time driver, you can't keep doing that. Justin Haley in the 31 in the Cup car has done a fantastic job. We just felt it was the right time and we're bringing Chandler Smith to fill my shoes in the 16 Xfinity car. He's got so much talent, 20 years old. I think Kaulig, we talk about the now and the future. Right? Hopefully I can keep making this team better and better over the next few years. We got the future in line, hopefully.

Dusty Weis:

Well, and speaking of the now, right now you're currently tied for first in the Xfinity series playoff standings. What would it mean to bring home the championship for Kaulig Racing, as you head off into full-time Cup series racing?

A.J. Allmendinger:

Yeah, to me it would be the cherry on top. This championship's so hard to win now because you have to get to Phoenix, one of four drivers that make it to that championship race and have a shot at the championship. Then on that day, you have to be the best out of those four. You can win 32 races in the Xfinity series, but you don't win the right one, you're not the champion. I mean, that's a tough championship to win.

I don't put everything on the overall championship as it's make or break and if we don't win it's a terrible season. I make the comment all the time, if you look at my teammate Daniel Hemric's season last year when he was at Joe Gibbs, he didn't win all year, but he got to Phoenix, won the final race, won the championship. It was amazing to watch him do that.

The way he did it was spectacular. I'd have loved to have that walk off moment, but I also won six times last year and Kaulig Racing, together we won five Xfinity races and a Cup race at Indy. I'd have never traded that season in for what Daniel did, but it would be the cherry on top. The end goal is to win the championship, but no matter what, we've had a great year. Hopefully we got four more races before we get to Phoenix, so that means we can win five more times. It's one of those things that it doesn't change how the seasons win. It's been great, but it definitely would be the cherry on top to walk off out of the Xfinity series and go full-time Cup again.

Dusty Weis:

Well, as you get after it, know that you do it with the entire Nutrien Ag Solutions family, the Crop Consultants Nationwide Growers everywhere. Everybody's going to be pulling for you in that 16 car and it's just been a real treat for us to get to know you and have you tell your story to them as well. We wanted to end real quick with a lightning round if you're up for it.

A.J. Allmendinger:

All right.

Dusty Weis:

We just want to do a little bit of word association. I'm going to say a word or phrase. I want you to just snap back with the word or phrase that pops into your head.

A.J. Allmendinger:

Are you sure you want to enter this head like that?

Dusty Weis:

Hashtag no filter. Let's go.

Tom Daniel:

No filter. Yeah.

A.J. Allmendinger:

Yeah. I don't know if we want to do that.

Dusty Weis:

The first one that we wanted to do for word association is success.

A.J. Allmendinger:

Important?

Dusty Weis:

How about underrated?

A.J. Allmendinger:

Overstated.

Dusty Weis:

Nutrien Ag Solutions?

A.J. Allmendinger:

Do I have to do one word on that, or do I-

Dusty Weis:

Word or phrase.

A.J. Allmendinger:

It's a fantastic family. I've learned about agriculture. A necessity.

Dusty Weis:

Yeah, Kaulig Racing.

A.J. Allmendinger:

My family.

Dusty Weis:

The number 16 Chevy Camaro.

A.J. Allmendinger:

Best race car out there.

Dusty Weis:

There you go.

Tom Daniel:

Absolutely.

Dusty Weis:

Well, we got the best race car driver out there as well. A.J. Allmendinger from Kaulig Racing, thank you so much for joining us on this episode of The Future. Faster.

A.J. Allmendinger:

Thank you guys.

Dusty Weis:

In case you missed it, just a few hours after we talked to him, A.J. staged a thrilling comeback to win his event in the Bank of America ROVAL 400, slipping ahead of Ty Gibbs in the first turns of a restart in the final laps of overtime. He's strongly positioned now to contend for a championship at Phoenix next month.

That is going to conclude this edition of The Future. Faster., The Pursuit of Sustainable Success with Nutrien Ag Solutions. New episodes arrive every other week, so make sure you subscribe in your favorite app and join us again soon. Visit futurefaster.com to learn more. The Future. Faster. Podcast is brought to you by Nutrien Ag Solutions, with executive producer Connor Erwin and editing by Larry Kilgore III. It's produced by Podcamp Media, branded podcast production for businesses podcampmedia.com. For Nutrien Ag Solutions, thanks for listening. I'm Dusty Weis.