2013-05-30

9-time ARCA champ Frank Kimmel to make two visits to Minneapolis-area Menards stores Thursday afternoon

For Immediate Release:

Thursday, May 30, 2013 

  

(MINNEAPOLIS, Minn.) - Frank Kimmel's weekend for Elko Speedway gets started Thursday when he visits two of the 36 Minneapolis-area Menards stores offering discount $20 tickets to Saturday night's race. Kimmel will be at the Cottage Grove, Minn., Menards from 4-5:30 p.m. CT with his show car and then at the Eden Prairie Menards from 6:30-8. On Friday evening Kimmel will appear with other ARCA drivers at the Burnsville, Minn., Menards from 4-7 p.m. That's an inseparable part of his race weekends.

 

"It's always fun to see people that enjoy what you do," Kimmel said. "We have people that come by and don't really know what's going on and why we have a racecar in front of the Menards store, but there's a lot of people that understand it and follow it and are there to get their discount race tickets.

 

"They're excited to talk to you about what's going to happen so it's a neat mix -- it's a lot of fun to interact with them. They all look at our ThorSport cars and see how neat and clean they are, and I think they can't believe they can see them beat and bang and race on a tiny racetrack like Elko."

 

ARCA has scheduled two 45-minute practice sessions Saturday at Elko. The first is from 2-2:45 p.m. CT and final practice is from 3:15-4 p.m. Menards Pole Qualifying presented by Ansell is scheduled for 5:30 p.m. to set the starting grid, followed by a frontstretch on-track autograph session from 6:30-7:30. 

   

The season's sixth race, 250 laps and 94 miles, is scheduled for an 8 p.m. CT start Saturday, with live timing & scoring and audio coverage available on ARCARacing.com throughout the day.

The Automobile Racing Club of America (ARCA) is among the leading auto racing sanctioning bodies in the country. Founded in 1953 by John and Mildred Marcum, the organization administers more than 100 events each year in multiple racing series, including the ARCA Racing Series presented by Menards, the ARCA/CRA Super Series, the ARCA Truck Series and the ARCA Midwest Tour, plus weekly racing at Toledo and Flat Rock Speedways.  

 

CONTACT:

Doug Donnelly, ARCA                                   

 

 

Don Radebaugh, ARCA

 

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Posted by Marc Patrick Roy at 30.5.13

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