Nine-Time ARCA Champ Kimmel Making Menards Store Appearances Before Saturday's Race at Elko Speedway
For Immediate Release: Wednesday, May 30, 2012 (TOLEDO, Ohio) - This week, the ARCA Racing Series presented by Menards will arrive for competition in Minnesota for the first time ever, and nine-time series champion Frank Kimmel will be front and center. Kimmel, driver of the No. 44 Ansell/Menards Toyota for ThorSport Racing, will appear at two Menards stores just south of Minneapolis and St. Paul to launch the ARCA race weekend at Elko Speedway in Elko New Market. |
Kimmel's appearances will take place Thursday, from 4-5:30 p.m. at the Burnsville store and from 6:30-8 at the Apple Valley store. The Burnsville Menards is located at 2700 Hwy. 13 W, just west of I-35 W at Exit 3B. The Apple Valley Menards stands at 14960 Florence Trail. The 74-time ARCA race winner will meet and greet fans, sign autographs, and pose for pictures next to his No. 44 show car. Guests who purchase a pair of Ansell gloves inside the store will receive a voucher for a free second pair of gloves, presented by Kimmel outside the store. The race will be the first appearance for the ARCA Racing Series presented by Menards at the track south of the Twin Cities, and Menards stores in and around the area will give race fans and store customers the chance to "Save Big Money" on tickets to see the action live for the first time. Through Friday, fans can buy tickets for the ARCA race at $15 - a 40 percent, or $10, discount off of the advertised at-track price - at 32 Menards stores in Minnesota. The store locations are: Alexandria, Apple Valley, Baxter, Blaine, Brooklyn Park, Buffalo, Burnsville, Cambridge, Coon Rapids, Cottage Grove, Dundas, Eden Prairie, Elk River, Forest Lake, Fridley, Golden Valley, Hudson, Hutchinson, Mankato, Maple Grove, Maplewood, Oakdale, Red Wing, two stores in Rochester, St. Cloud, St. Croix Falls, St. Paul Midway, Stillwater, West St. Paul, Willmar, and Winona. The Akona 200 will begin at 8 p.m. on Saturday, with two 45-minute practices scheduled for 2 and 3:15, and Menards Pole Qualifying presented by Ansell following at 5. Each driver in the starting field will participate in an on-track autograph session from 6:30 to 7:30, just before the green flag. All times are Central. Elko Speedway is located at 26350 France Avenue in Elko New Market. 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 25 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 26th 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 Don Radebaugh, ARCA |
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