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2012 ARCA Safety Initiative:
Participant Accident Insurance Coverage
Increases
(TEMPERANCE, Mich.) -
Entering its 60th Anniversary Season, the Automobile Racing
Club of America continues to focus significant efforts on
keeping its competitors safe.
Founded in Toledo, Ohio in 1953, the Temperance, Mich.-based
company will begin 2012 with an enhanced participant
accident insurance plan.
ARCA
president and CEO Ron Drager announced an increase in the
insurance coverage for all ARCA-licensed members competing
in ARCA-sanctioned events. With no direct increase in ARCA
membership fees, ARCA and insurer K&K Insurance Group, Inc.
will offer $500,000 in participant accident medical coverage
to each license holder, up from $300,000 in 2011 and
previous years.
The
increased insurance coverage will not be limited to people
participating in the ARCA Racing Series presented by
Menards. Participants at Toledo and Flat Rock Speedway, in
the ARCA Truck Series, and the ARCA CRA Super Series will
also benefit. The ARCA CRA Super Series is the product of a
new relationship between ARCA and the Champion Racing
Association, announced last July.
Fittingly, Fort Wayne, Ind.-based K&K Insurance, recognized
as the leading provider of sports, leisure, and
entertainment insurance products, recently celebrated its
60th year in business. K&K was founded in 1952, one year
ahead of ARCA.
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.
ARCA,
University of Northwestern Ohio Extend Sponsorship
Agreement; Race Officials Train, Refresh at University
(TOLEDO, Ohio)
- The University
of Northwestern Ohio, located in Lima, has renewed its
position as the Official and Exclusive Educational
University of the ARCA Racing Series presented by Menards
for the 2012 season.
The agreement includes a continuation of the
UNOH student intern program, which creates at-track
internship opportunities with race teams and the sanctioning
body for UNOH students. Numerous UNOH students have served
as technical officials at ARCA events, and many others have
worked in varying roles on ARCA race teams.
"The program we have with
ARCA and the ARCA teams has been extremely beneficial to our
marketing and branding strategies," said Steve Farmer, vice
president of corporate development for UNOH. "Our students
have benefited from the hands-on experience they get working
with some of the best teams in the racing industry. It is an
education they can get nowhere else in the country."
The university will contribute $2500 to the
series' annual point fund, and also sponsor several special
award programs - totaling $300 per each of the season's 20
events and a $2500 award at the season's end.
The relationship's ninth season began in
earnest last weekend, when over 25 ARCA Racing Series
officials traveled to Lima to visit the university's Dr.
Jeffrey A. Jarvis High Performance Motorsports Complex for a
preseason training session.
Split into four small groups, the officials
took instruction on several elements of at-track procedure.
Two classroom settings provided pit road and race procedure
discussions, and two in-garage classes allowed officials to
learn more about qualifying and impound procedures. A race
car formerly used in competition stood on jack stands to
give officials a closer view. Each of the four classes
lasted one hour, allowing for a lecture, a
question-and-answer session, and other discussion in every
area. All officials - returning and new - were tested at the
end of the day.
Though many attending the program were ARCA
veterans looking to refresh their knowledge after seasons of
experience, several new officials participated and gained
real experience.
At 75,000 square feet, UNOH's High
Performance Motorsports Complex features eight different
compartments: custom engine-building, engine-building,
fabrication, high-performance welding, high-performance
chassis, steering and suspension, accessories trends, and a
dyno building with four dyno machines. The dyno building
also houses the school's motorsports team, which fields
modified cars and stock cars at the university's Limaland
Motorsports Park.
2012 will be the ARCA Racing Series presented
by Menards' 60th Anniversary Season, featuring 20 races at
18 tracks. The season begins with the Lucas Oil Slick Mist
200 at Daytona International Speedway on Saturday, February
18. The event will air live on SPEED.
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 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 will visit Alabama's Mobile
International Speedway and Minnesota's Elko Speedway for the
first time; ARCA's first visit to Minnesota will give ARCA a
race in a 29th state.
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