Bowman Wins Fifth Menards Pole Award of 2012 at Madison
For Immediate Release: Saturday, August 25, 2012 (OREGON, Wis.) - In his return to the track where he made his ARCA Racing Series presented by Menards debut and won right away one year ago, Alex Bowman set a new ARCA qualifying record at Madison International Speedway. |
Bowman will start first in tomorrow's Herr's Live Life with Flavor 200 after winning his fifth Menards Pole Award presented by Ansell of 2012. His lap of 18.093 seconds (99.486 mph) topped Clint King's qualifying mark from one year ago, an event at which the 16-year-old King also made his ARCA debut. Bowman, 19, placed the No. 22 St. Jude Children's Research Hospital Dodge in a prime position to give Cunningham Motorsports a Madison win to match the one he earned with Venturini Motorsports last year. "We've been really good here all day, but haven't really shown it on the time charts," said Bowman, who finished the first practice eighth and the final session 11th. "We had a really good St. Jude's/Cunningham Motorsports Dodge and I've got to thank (crew chief) Paul Andrews, (co-owners) Kerry Scherer, Briggs Cunningham, and Penske Engines. We had a good race car. I really didn't expect to qualify that well. Hopefully, we'll bring it home in the same place we did last year." Bowman earned 15 bonus points for qualifying first. Brennan Poole (No. 25 Venturini Motorsports Toyota) qualified second to earn 10 bonus points and draw within 85 points of points leader Chris Buescher with four races to go. Erik Jones, a Venturini Motorsports teammate to Poole, qualified third. Chase Elliott was fourth, ahead of Chad Hackenbracht, Mason Mingus, Buescher, Tom Hessert, Frank Kimmel, and King. Tomorrow, ARCA Racing Series drivers will appear on the frontstretch for an autograph session open to all fans at noon, and the 200-lap, 100-mile race will begin at 2 p.m. Central, one hour behind Eastern Daylight Time. ARCARacing.com will feature live timing and scoring coverage, and ARCA Racing Network hosts Charlie Krall and Tim Clagg will deliver a live audio call of the race on the site. The full starting lineup is below.
2012 is the ARCA Racing Series presented by Menards' 60th Anniversary Season, featuring 20 races at 18 tracks. 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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