Aric Almirola is still driving the best of his career. His seventh place finish in Sunday’s Foxwoods Resort Casino 301 at the New Hampshire Motor Speedway was his ninth consecutive top 10 finish on the season in his No. 10 Ford with five of those being in the top five.

Almirola, has never had a streak like this before. In fact, he’s never been close either. But, he will keep his top 10 streak going as he had a solid afternoon in Loudon on Sunday.

The Stewart-Haas Racing driver was 10th and fourth respectively in the two stages and hung around up front all day. He started on the pole and while he didn’t have race winning speed, he had a car with top 10 pace.

“Well the streak continues,” said Almirola. “Nine top 10s in a row. So proud of this Smithfield Hometown Heroes Ford Mustang team. We ran up front a little bit in the beginning and were just off a bit on balance of our car. It was a solid day. We continue to build a points gap back to the cutoff line to the guys in the playoffs and we just continue the consistency. One of these days we’re going to get us a win.”

That’s all you can ask for. That’s all he’s been wanting. Just to be there in the end and that’s where they’ve been every race since Homestead on June 14.