Coming Up in the ARCA Racing Series: Salem
For Immediate Release:
Tuesday, April 10, 2012
(TOLEDO, Ohio) - One month has passed since the most recent race on the ARCA Racing Series presented by Menards schedule, but teams will soon be back in action - and at one of the tracks which is most notable in ARCA's 60 years, no less.
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On April 29, the Kentuckiana Ford Dealers 200 at Salem Speedway will bring ARCA competitors to the high-banked 0.555-mile oval in southern Indiana for the first time this year and 91st time since 1955. The ARCA Racing Series - ARCA's flagship series for developmental drivers and veterans alike - will hold practice and qualifying on Saturday, April 28, with the race set for Sunday afternoon.
The basic facts and figures surrounding the race are as follows:
What: Kentuckiana Ford Dealers 200, the third race of 20 on the 2012 ARCA Racing Series schedule
When: 2:15 p.m., Sunday, April 29
Where: Salem Speedway
Distance: 200 laps, or 111 miles
Last year's winner (spring): Brennan Poole. Poole's win for Venturini Motorsports at Salem Speedway on May 1, 2011 came in his first ARCA Racing Series start.
Last year's pole winner (spring): Ty Dillon, 17.509 seconds (114.113 mph).
ARCA qualifying record at track: Gary Bradberry, 16.785 seconds (119.035 mph) - 1994.
Last year's race summary: Poole started second to Dillon but fell one lap off the pace just after the halfway point. Poole later earned the lap back and passed Tom Hessert for the lead on Lap 176. He held Dillon and nine-time Salem winner Frank Kimmel off over the final restarts of a race which was extended to 206 laps because of late incidents and caution periods.
Who's in: Among the notable pre-entries are: Poole; Kimmel; Hessert; Sean Corr; Chad Hackenbracht; Mikey Kile; Matt Lofton; Jared Marks; Ryan Reed; Chris Buescher, the September 2011 Salem winner and ARCA Rookie of the Year; Chase Elliott, son of NASCAR champion Bill Elliott; Erik Jones, ARCA's first 15-year-old driver; Clint King, last fall's pole winner at Salem; Alex Bowman, a two-time ARCA winner; and Will Kimmel, last fall's runner-up at Salem.
Schedule of accompanying on-track events: Practice: 12-12:45 p.m., 1:15-2 p.m., Saturday, April 28; Menards Pole Qualifying presented by Ansell: 3:30 p.m., Saturday, April 28.
History at track: ARCA first raced at Salem Speedway in 1955; Jack Harrison won the first three ARCA events at the track. ARCA champion Jack Bowsher won seven straight races at Salem between 1963 and 1965. Eight different drivers have won the last eight events at Salem; one of those drivers is Indiana's Frank Kimmel, who earned his first Salem victory in 1998 but has not won in a span of 65 races since the September 2008 event at the track.
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 28 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 0.4 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 for the first time. In June, the first event at Minnesota's Elko Speedway will give ARCA a race in a 29th state.
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
(419) 574-2685 (mobile)
Don Radebaugh, ARCA
(419) 450-0611 (mobile)
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