Annett earns first Top 10 finish in three months
FORT WORTH, TEXAS – The time between July 3 and Saturday, Oct. 16, is a period Michael Annett will likely want to forget.
However, Annett began and ended the period with Top 10 finishes in the NASCAR Xfinity Series – A 3rd-place finish in the July 3 Road America race and a 9th-place finish in Saturday’s Andy’s Frozen Custard 335 at Texas.
Annett earned 10 stage points in Saturday’s race, earning himself playoff points for the first time since scoring three points at Road America in July.
Although he scored three playoff points at Watkins Glen, Chase Elliott was driving his car and earned the points for him. Elliott took over for Annett, who was suffering from a leg injury that caused him to miss seven NASCAR Xfinity Series races.
Annett on Oct. 6 announced his retirement from full-time competition. Annett has three races left in his full-time career – at Kansas, Martinsville and Phoenix.
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Jonathan Fjeld is the co-owner of the The Racing Experts, LLC. He has been with TRE since 2010.
A Twin Valley, MN, native, Fjeld became a motorsports fan at just three years old (first race was the 2002 Pennsylvania 500). He worked as a contributor and writer for TRE from 2010-18. Since then, he has stepped up and covered 24 NASCAR race weekends and taken on a larger role with TRE. He became the co-owner and managing editor in 2023 and has guided the site to massive growth in that time.
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