Blickensderfer named crew chief for Aric Almirola
Drew Blickensderfer will be crew chief for Aric Almirola in the 2022 NASCAR Cup Series season, Stewart-Haas Racing announced Tuesday (Jan. 4).
Almriola’s crew chief in 2021, Mike Bugarewicz, will become the performance director for Stewart-Haas Racing.
Blickensderfer served as crew chief for Michael McDowell over the last three seasons, earning the 2021 Daytona 500 victory with McDowell and Front Row Motorsports.
Blickensderfer has worked as a crew chief in the Cup Series since 2009, earning the 2009 Daytona 500 victory atop Matt Kenseth’s pit box.
Blickensderfer worked as Almriola’s crew chief for 35 races between 2016 and 2017 at Richard Petty Motorsports.
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Dominic Aragon is currently the editor-in-chief for The Racing Experts.
From Grants, New Mexico, USA, Aragon started watching NASCAR in 2004 and has been covering the sport since 2009. Aragon is a 2012 graduate of Grants High School and a May 2016 graduate of the University of New Mexico with a B.A. in Mass Communications & Journalism. Aragon has worked in local and national media, as a musician, and an educator. He is co-author of the 2024 book "All of It: Daytona 500 Champion Tells the Rest of the Story" with racer Geoff Bodine.
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