2012-07-16

Dustyn Evearitt Joins ARCA as Marketing Manager

For Immediate Release:

Friday, July 13, 2012

 

 

(TOLEDO, Ohio) - The Automobile Racing Club of America has announced that Toledo native Dustyn Evearitt has joined ARCA's full-time administration staff as marketing manager.

 

Evearitt, a 2010 graduate of the University of Toledo, previously interned with the Toledo Mud Hens and the University of Toledo athletic program. He will report to George Mergen, ARCA's director of marketing and public relations. Today's Prairie Meadows 200 at Iowa Speedway represents Evearitt's first race at the track for ARCA.

 

 “We're thrilled to have Dustyn join the marketing team here at ARCA," Mergen said. "He brings some solid experience in the sports marketing field from his previous employment with two Toledo-area sports organizations. He will be an integral part of marketing program development, event management, and all the associated trackside activation for ARCA's sponsors."

 

The Prairie Meadows 200 will air live on SPEED at 9 p.m. Eastern tonight, with live timing and scoring available at ARCARacing.com. All practice activity and Menards Pole Qualifying presented by Ansell is taking place today, and ARCARacing.com will feature live timing and scoring coverage of those sessions as well. The race will be the 11th on the 20-race schedule for 2012.

 

2012 is the ARCA Racing Series presented by Menards' 60th Anniversary Season, featuring 20 races at 18 tracks. After over 100 race events each season and hundreds of thousands of miles of racing in the ARCA Racing Series, the ARCA Truck Series, local weekly events at Toledo Speedway and Flat Rock Speedway, and now the ARCA CRA Super Series, ARCA's 60th Anniversary Season honors and pays tribute to the competitors, supporters, race tracks, and everyone responsible for turning ARCA into a success. The complete 2012 event schedule is available at ARCARacing.com.

 

The ARCA Racing Series presented by Menards has crowned an ARCA national champion each year since its inaugural season in 1953, and has toured over 200 race tracks in 26 states since its inception. The series has tested the abilities of drivers and race teams over the most diverse schedule of stock car racing events in the world, visiting tracks ranging from 0.375 mile to 2.66 miles in length, on both paved and dirt surfaces as well as a left- and right-turn road course in its most recent season. This year, the series visited Alabama's Mobile International Speedway and Minnesota's Elko Speedway for the first time.

 

Founded by John and Mildred Marcum in 1953 in Toledo, Ohio, the Automobile Racing Club of America (ARCA) is recognized among the leading sanctioning bodies in the country. Closing in on completing its sixth decade after hundreds of thousands of miles of racing, ARCA administers over 100 race events each season in three professional touring series and local weekly events.

 

CONTACT:

Griffin Hickman, ARCA

 

Don Radebaugh, ARCA

 

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