CHARLOTTE, N.C. -- Since joining Stewart-Haas Racing during the offseason, Aric Almirola has increased his presence on social media.
Part of that is the social media strategy of the race team, but it also has been Almirola deciding to take a break from social media in 2017, which ended up being a frustrating final year at Richard Petty Motorsports.
"I'm sitting here in my motor home with my wife cooking dinner and my two kids are playing on the floor in the motor home with race cars or Barbie dolls or whatever, and I'm sitting on my phone reading Twitter or playing on social media like, 'What am I doing?