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RACING & TESTING

Patrick Sheltra Wins Ansell Protective Gloves 150;

Joey Coulter Takes Prestigious Bill France Four Crown Award

 

(JOLIET, Ill.) - Patrick Sheltra scored a victory for the second consecutive race in the ARCA Racing Series presented by RE/MAX and Menards, winning the Ansell Protective Gloves 150 by 1.669 seconds over Steve Arpin. With his win at Chicagoland Speedway - his first on a speedway and the third of his 82-race career - Sheltra became the second driver with multiple and back-to-back victories this season, joining Arpin.

 

The 24-year-old Sheltra (No. 60 Recycling Services/Ferguson Pipe Toyota) led 85 of 100 laps to back up his winning performance from just five days earlier, when he won the Allen Crowe 100 at the Illinois State Fairgrounds in Springfield. Sheltra maintained his position as the only driver in the series with top-10 finishes in each of the seven speedway races to date.

 

"I cannot thank everyone at Sheltra Motorsports enough," said Sheltra, who used the services of NASCAR Sprint Cup Series driver David Gilliland as a driver coach. "We had a great car. We opted not to come out and test here (last week) and obviously, it did not hold us back. I can't thank everyone enough. We're on fire right now and we don't plan to let the flame die anytime soon."

 

Craig Goess (No. 81 Greenville Toyota of N.C. Toyota) started first after winning the Menards Pole Award presented by Ansell for the second time this season, but had to face a challenge from Sheltra right away. Sheltra, whose win Sunday came after a daring move to the outside on a late restart, used the outside line at first to drive next to Goess, but eventually passed the ARCA Racing Series points leader on the inside in the first turn of the fifth lap.

 

Casey Roderick (No. 51 Phoenix Racing/Bill Elliott Racing Chevrolet), the third starter, hit the wall and caused a reaction that led to Mikey Kile (No. 25 Texas Corral Toyota) turning into Chad McCumbee (No. 1 ModSpace/Red Cross Disaster Relief Ford) on Lap 7. McCumbee, who had started seventh after his best qualifying effort of 2010, suffered heavy front end damage and was forced to retire. Among the notable drivers to narrowly avoid the wreck was Kile's teammate, Arpin (No. 55 Mike's Hard Lemonade Toyota).

 

Goess began to drip oil, and had to drive to pit road. He originally fell to seventh and later to 24th, but returned to contention later in the race. Goess eventually finished fifth, and exited Chicagoland Speedway with a five-point lead in the series standings over Frank Kimmel (No. 44 Ansell/Menards Ford), who ended the race in fourth.

 

Sheltra opened a lead of more than one second after the Lap 15 restart, and immediately found himself under hot pursuit from Justin Marks (No. 32 Construct Corps Toyota), Arpin, and Grant Enfinger (No. 09 BeasleyAllen.com Ford). Enfinger battled Arpin along the low line for third place and passed him in the fourth turn on Lap 23 for the position. With only Marks between Enfinger and Sheltra's lead, the second and third positions were occupied by drivers who had changed their engines before qualifying. Enfinger then moved around Marks on Lap 25 and found himself 1.921 seconds behind Sheltra.

 

Chad Finley (No. 29 Bumper to Bumper Certified Service Centers Chevrolet), who had started third on Lap 15 and fallen back to sixth, moved along the top of the track and back into third place. Meanwhile, Enfinger was closing the gap on Sheltra, closing within 0.139 second on Lap 29.

 

Chad Hackenbracht (No. 58 Tastee Apples Chevrolet) hit the wall on Lap 33, and Robb Brent (No. 36 Orchard Chrysler Dodge Jeep Ram Dodge) temporarily assumed the lead within the ensuing caution, the race's second, on Lap 35. Brent eventually had to pit, and Finley took the point on Lap 42.

 

After falling back several positions through the pit cycle, Sheltra found himself back in second on the restart. He moved inside of Finley on Lap 44, but Finley maintained a short lead. The next lap, however, Sheltra edged past Finley by a narrow margin of 0.009 second. The two battled door-to-door with Finley taking the advantage on the backstretch, but Sheltra led at the line to close Lap 46.

 

Sheltra moved away on Lap 47, and just four laps later held a lead of more than one second over Finley. By leading the race's 50th lap, Sheltra took the Messina Halfway Leader Award, a fitting supplement to his Aaron's Lap Leader Award, earned for leading more laps than any other driver.

 

Arpin moved past Tim George Jr. (No. 31 Richard Childress Racing Development Chevrolet) and Marks to take third place, and it was soon his Toyota that was battling Finley for the second position. The side-by-side racing between Arpin and Finley allowed Sheltra to advance his lead to more than two seconds, and his lead only grew before Alli Owens (No. 15 ElectrifyingCareers.com Chevrolet) spun on Lap 60 to bring out the race's third caution.

 

Finley spun his tires on the Lap 64 restart, allowing Arpin and Goess to move into the second and third positions, respectively. Sheltra's lead on the first green lap was just more than a half-second, but Arpin was able to shave from that advantage.

 

Brent contacted the wall in Turn 2 on Lap 72 to bring out the race's fourth caution, and almost immediately upon the Lap 75 restart - just laps after singing from inside his cockpit that his team had a fast car - Arpin passed Sheltra for the lead. Sheltra retaliated, however, and took the lead again two laps later.

 

Enfinger had moved back into third, and it was his late battle with Arpin that allowed Sheltra to begin to pull away. Though Arpin was just more than one second behind Sheltra's lead, Enfinger was less than a half-second behind Arpin for second place.

 

The race's final caution came out when Finley's car went up in smoke and had to leave the track. Sheltra's pursuers had a chance on the Lap 91 restart, but Sheltra pulled away over the final 10 laps to win his second consecutive event in the series and move into third place and within 10 points of Goess in the series standings.

 

Arpin and Enfinger battled tightly in the waning laps, with Arpin taking the second position. Kimmel and Goess followed to close the top five, and Marks held off Tom Hessert (No. 77 Cherry Hill Classic Cars Dodge) for sixth place. Hessert currently stands fourth, 25 points behind Goess's lead.

 

Joey Coulter's eighth-place finish, even when coupled with Sheltra's win, gave him a wire-to-wire win in the Bill France Four Crown Award. Coulter (No. 16 Rip It Energy Fuel/Darrell Gwynn Foundation Chevrolet) defeated Sheltra by a mere 10 points, 745-735, to win the season-within-a-season contest which awards drivers for success on a diverse slate of tracks. Coulter won the contest-opening race at the 0.4-mile Berlin Raceway on August 7, finished second at the New Jersey Motorsports Park road course on August 15, and finished fourth at the Illinois State Fairgrounds dirt oval on August 22.

 

Bobby Gerhart finished ninth to take his first top-10 since the June race at Pocono, and Bryan Silas finished 10th.

 

At one hour, 21 minutes, and 35 seconds (110.317 mph), the race was 31 seconds short of matching last season's record-setting race, won by eventual series champion Justin Lofton at a speed of 111.020 mph. The five caution periods delayed the race for 30 laps.

 

The ARCA Racing Series presented by RE/MAX and Menards continues its tour of Illinois with a return trip to a dirt oval on Monday, September 6. The Du Quoin State Fairgrounds in Du Quoin, Ill. will host the Southern Illinois 100 presented by Federated Car Care, with live timing and scoring and live audio coverage of the Labor Day event beginning at 9 a.m. Central for a one-hour practice. Menards Pole Qualifying presented by Ansell is scheduled for 11 a.m. Central, and the 100-lap, 100-mile race will begin at 1 p.m. Central. Coverage of all events will be provided by the ARCA Racing Network and ARCA Nation at ARCARacing.com.

 

The ARCA Racing Series presented by RE/MAX and Menards features 20 events at 17 tracks on its 2010 schedule. The series has crowned an ARCA national champion each year since its inaugural season in 1953, and has toured over 200 racetracks in 28 states since its inception. The series tests the abilities of drivers and race teams over the most diverse schedule of stock car racing events in the world, annually visiting tracks ranging from 0.4 mile to 2.66 miles in length, on both paved and dirt surfaces as well as left- and right-turn street and road courses.

 

Founded by John 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 two professional touring series and local weekly events.

 

CONTACT:

Griffin Hickman, ARCA

(419) 574-2685 (mobile)

ghickman@arcaracing.com

 

Don Radebaugh, ARCA

(419) 450-0611 (mobile)

dradebaugh@arcaracing.com

 
Top-10 ARCA Racing Series Points after Chicagoland (8-27-10)

Pos

Driver

Points

1

Craig Goess

3670

2

Frank Kimmel

3665

3

Patrick Sheltra

3660

4

Tom Hessert

3645

5

Dakoda Armstrong

3535

6

Justin Marks

3525

7

Mikey Kile

3515

8

Joey Coulter

3355

9

Tim George Jr.

3255

10

Robb Brent

3175

 

Official Results, Ansell Protective Gloves 150, Chicagoland Speedway (8-27-10)
ARCA Racing Series presented by RE/MAX and Menards
 

Joliet, Ill., (AP) _ The official finish for Friday's Ansell Protective Gloves 150 at Chicagoland Speedway for ARCA Racing Series stock cars with starting position in parenthesis, driver, hometown, type of car, laps completed, and reason out of race, if any:

1. (2) Patrick Sheltra, Indiantown, Fla., Dodge, 100; 2. (6) Steve Arpin, Fort Frances, Ont., Toyota, 100; 3. (8) Grant Enfinger, Fairhope, Ala., Ford, 100; 4. (12) Frank Kimmel, Clarksville, Ind., Ford, 100; 5. (1) Craig Goess, Greenville, N.C., Toyota, 100; 6. (5) Justin Marks, Rocklin, Calif., Toyota, 100; 7. (13) Tom Hessert, Cherry Hill, N.J., Dodge, 100; 8. (10) Joey Coulter, Miami Springs, Fla., Chevrolet, 100; 9. (19) Bobby Gerhart, Lebanon, Pa., Chevrolet, 100; 10. (20) Bryan Silas, Stuart, Fla., Ford, 100; 11. (15) Dakoda Armstrong, New Castle, Ind., Dodge, 100; 12. (18) Kyle Fowler, Smyrna, Ga., Chevrolet, 100; 13. (22) Kyle Martel, Lebanon, Pa., Chevrolet, 100; 14. (16) Alli Owens, Daytona Beach, Fla., Chevrolet, 100; 15. (21) Chris Cockrum, Conyers, Ga., Chevrolet, 100; 16. (9) Tim George, Jr., New York, N.Y., Chevrolet, 97; 17. (23) Tony Palumbo, Frankfort, Ill., Ford, 96; 18. (30) Tom Berte, New Berlin, Wis., Chevrolet, 94; 19. (24) Jerick Johnson, Faribault, Minn., Chevrolet, 93; 20. (32) Darrell Basham, Henryville, Ind., Chevrolet, 93; 21. (35) James Hylton, Inman, S.C., Ford, 91; 22. (25) Kent Schenkel, Huntington, Ind., Dodge, 87; 23. (17) Chad Finley, Lansing, Mich., Chevrolet, 87; 24. (14) Robb Brent, Shelby Township, Mich., Dodge, 74; 25. (4) Mikey Kile, Westlake, La., Toyota, 72; 26. (28) Nick Igdalsky, Long Pond, Pa., Ford, 54, engine; 27. (11) Chad Hackenbracht, New Philadelphia, Ohio, Chevrolet, 32, accident; 28. (34) Brad Smith, Shelby Township, Mich., Ford, 27, steering; 29. (36) Mike Harmon, Birmingport, Ala., Ford, 23, transmission; 30. (31) Mark Gibson, Winder, Ga., Dodge, 21, handling; 31. (39) Jason Basham, Henryville, Ind., Chevrolet, 20, overheating; 32. (3) Casey Roderick, Lawrenceville, Ga., Chevrolet, 6, accident; 33. (7) Chad McCumbee, Supply, N.C., Ford, 6, accident; 34. (33) Rob Jones, Bowie, Md., Chevrolet, 3, handling; 35. (37) Mike Sosebee, Hoschton, Ga., Dodge, 2, suspension; 36. (29) Ray Mooi, New Lenox, Ill., Toyota, 2, handling; 37. (27) Richard Harriman, Snohomish, Wash., Dodge, 1, transmission; 38. (26) Benny Chastain, Tallahassee, Fla., Ford, 0, rear end; 39. (38) Wayne Peterson, Pulaski, Tenn., Chevrolet, 0, brakes.

Time of race: 1 hour, 21 minutes, 35 seconds; Margin of victory: 1.669 seconds; Lap leaders: Goess 1-3, Sheltra 4-34, Brent 35-41, Finley 42-44, Sheltra 45-74, Arpin 75-76, Sheltra 77-100.

 

 

Craig Goess Leads Opening ARCA Practice at Chicagoland

 

(JOLIET, Ill.) - Craig Goess posted the fastest time in last week's ARCA Racing Series presented by RE/MAX and Menards test at Chicagoland Speedway, and backed up his leading performance this afternoon by turning a lap around the 1.5-mile oval in 30.842 seconds (175.086 mph) to top the chart in the series' opening practice.

 

Goess (No. 81 Greenville Toyota of N.C. Toyota) will enter tomorrow's continued preparation for the Ansell Protective Gloves 150 - the 15th of 20 races on the 2010 series schedule - as one of several favorites after edging Steve Arpin (No. 55 Mike's Hard Lemonade Toyota) and nine-time series champion Frank Kimmel (No. 44 Ansell/Menards Ford) atop the chart. Goess completed 26 laps in the session.

 

"When we first went out there, the track felt pretty similar to the test. It was just a little bit looser. We had a set of front shocks we wanted to try, a couple of things here and there. We've got a fast car. We'll keep our fingers crossed, and we don't want to have any bad luck. We should have a good shot for tomorrow's race," said Goess, who sits in third place in the series standings, 10 points behind Kimmel for the lead and five points behind Tom Hessert for second place.

 

Arpin waited until late in the session to drive the best of his 15 laps in 30.872 seconds (174.916 mph); Kimmel's top effort of 31.230 seconds (172.911 mph) came in just his third of 12 laps.

 

Eighteen-year-old Casey Roderick, the winner at New Jersey Motorsports Park two weeks ago, began his first speedway effort with the fourth-fastest best lap of the afternoon, at 31.235 seconds (172.883 mph). Justin Marks completed the top five with a best lap of 31.258 seconds (172.756 mph).

 

Patrick Sheltra, Mikey Kile, Tim George Jr., Chad Finley, and Hessert comprised the remainder of the top 10.

 

36 cars took laps. Benny Chastain completed 41, the most of any driver.

 

The second and final ARCA Racing Series practice takes place at 8 a.m. Central tomorrow, and will last one hour. Menards Pole Qualifying presented by Ansell - which has produced 12 pole winners in 13 qualifying sessions this season - is set to begin at 11:30 a.m. Central. The 100-lap, 150-mile Ansell Protective Gloves 150 will air live on SPEED at 6 p.m. Central. Live timing and scoring and live audio coverage of all events will be presented by ARCA Nation and the ARCA Racing Network at ARCARacing.com.

 

The ARCA Racing Series presented by RE/MAX and Menards features 20 events at 17 tracks on its 2010 schedule. The series has crowned an ARCA national champion each year since its inaugural season in 1953, and has toured over 200 racetracks in 28 states since its inception. The series tests the abilities of drivers and race teams over the most diverse schedule of stock car racing events in the world, annually visiting tracks ranging from 0.4 mile to 2.66 miles in length, on both paved and dirt surfaces as well as left- and right-turn street and road courses.

 

Founded by John 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 two professional touring series and local weekly events.

 

NEWS & NOTES

Back to the Dirt: ARCA Racing Series Set for 100 at Du Quoin

 

(TOLEDO, Ohio) - The Bill France Four Crown Award - won last week by Joey Coulter (No. 16 Rip It Energy Fuel/Darrell Gwynn Foundation Chevrolet) - annually celebrates the variety of tracks competed upon by the ARCA Racing Series presented by RE/MAX and Menards. Though the official Four Crown schedule saw its completion days ago, the series' surface diversity is far from over for 2010.

 

A third consecutive race in Illinois marks the second trip to a dirt oval for the ARCA Racing Series as the championship stretch winds on. Two weeks ago, the one-mile clay track at the Illinois State Fairgrounds in Springfield played host to stock cars, making way for Patrick Sheltra (No. 60 PatrickSheltra.com Dodge) to earn his first win of 2010. One hundred thirty miles to the south-southeast, as the crow flies, sits the dirt surface at the Du Quoin State Fairgrounds, a one-mile track that will play host to the ARCA Racing Series in the renewal of a classic Labor Day tradition.

 

The 100-lap, 100-mile Southern Illinois 100 presented by Federated Auto Parts is scheduled to being at 1 p.m. Central (2 Eastern) on Monday, September 6, with live timing and scoring and a live audio broadcast presented by ARCA Nation and the ARCA Racing Network available at ARCARacing.com. 27 previous ARCA races have been held at the Du Quoin State Fairgrounds; nine-time series champion Frank Kimmel (No. 44 Ansell/Menards Ford) is the all-time win leader at the dirt oval with five victories (2001, 2002, 2004, 2005, 2008). Parker Kligerman, last season's wins leader with nine, won at the track one year ago.

 

Kimmel trails leader Craig Goess (No. 81 Greenville Toyota of N.C. Toyota) by five points atop the ARCA Racing Series standings. Sheltra, who enters as a favorite with wins in consecutive races, is just 10 points from the lead in third place. With only five races remaining on the schedule, the top four drivers are separated by just 25 points in what promises to be an exciting finish to the championship contest.

 

The Southern Illinois 100 is scheduled as the 16th race of 20 this season, and the 330th dirt event of 1,309 total races in the series' history. The race is the feature event of the final day of the 11-day Du Quoin State Fair, which began Friday.

 

The lone practice is scheduled for 9 a.m. Central, with Menards Pole Qualifying presented by Ansell - which has produced 12 different pole winners in 14 qualifying sessions this season - taking place at 11 a.m. Central. Live audio coverage and live timing and scoring of all events will be available on ARCARacing.com.

 

Kimmel is the highest returning finisher from last year's race after finishing second to Kligerman. Coulter was third. A.J. Fike (No. 10 RFMS/Liberty Village Ford) has finished in the top five in each of his last three ARCA starts, and will return to the field after starting on the pole, leading the first 54 laps, and finishing fourth at Du Quoin in 2009. Each of Fike's recent top-fives have been on dirt and in Fords owned by Andy Hillenburg.

 

Racing star Ken Schrader, a veteran of seemingly countless disciplines, finished fifth in 2009 and will enter the No. 52 Schrader Racing Chevrolet. Schrader last appeared in the ARCA Racing Series at Toledo in May, finishing sixth.

 

Additional returners from last season's top 10 include Steve Arpin (ninth) and Bryan Silas (10th).

 

The ARCA Racing Series presented by RE/MAX and Menards features 20 events at 17 tracks on its 2010 schedule. The series has crowned an ARCA national champion each year since its inaugural season in 1953, and has toured over 200 racetracks in 28 states since its inception. The series tests the abilities of drivers and race teams over the most diverse schedule of stock car racing events in the world, annually visiting tracks ranging from 0.4 mile to 2.66 miles in length, on both paved and dirt surfaces as well as left- and right-turn street and road courses.

 

Founded by John 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 two professional touring series and local weekly events.

 

Top Four in ARCA Racing Series Standings Separated by 25 Points

 

(TOLEDO, Ohio) - The separation of four drivers by a mere 25 points atop the ARCA Racing Series presented by RE/MAX and Menards standings serves as the norm at the beginning of a season, when only one or two races have been completed. After 15 races, however, such a small range among contenders is an indication of major competition.

 

Craig Goess (No. 81 Greenville Toyota of N.C. Toyota) entered Chicagoland Speedway 10 points behind Frank Kimmel's (No. 44 Ansell/Menards Ford) lead atop the standings, but seized the Menards Pole Award presented by Ansell Friday afternoon. In doing so, Goess earned 15 bonus qualifying points and moved out of third place to unseat Kimmel before the race.

 

Kimmel did edge Goess by one position in that evening's Ansell Protective Gloves 150, but Goess led three early laps to earn an additional five bonus points and maintain a five-point advantage (3670-3665) for first place.

 

Patrick Sheltra (No. 60 Recycling Services/Ferguson Pipe Toyota) entered the weekend 40 points behind Kimmel and 30 points behind the bottom of the Kimmel-Tom Hessert-Goess triumvirate, but earned 10 points for qualifying second and the maximum 200 for winning the race. Sheltra is now in third place, 10 points behind Goess and five behind Kimmel. He leads Hessert (No. 77 Cherry Hill Classic Cars Dodge), formerly second, by 15 points.

 

The fifth, sixth, and seventh positions are also closely contested. Rookie Dakoda Armstrong (No. 22 Ferrellgas/Syngenta Seeds Dodge) is 135 points behind Goess, and leads Justin Marks (No. 32 Construct Corps Dodge) by 10 and Mikey Kile (No. 25 Venturini Motorsports Chevrolet) by 20.

 

Coulter Survives in Four Crown Chase: With the ARCA Racing Series standings so competitively tight with just five races remaining, Joey Coulter's (No. 16 Darrell Gwynn Foundation/Rip It Energy Fuel Chevrolet) narrow win in the Bill France Four Crown Award competition may have provided a preview of the thrilling lap-by-lap points movement still to come in the series' October 9 season finale at Rockingham (N.C.) Speedway.

 

Late in Friday's Ansell Protective Gloves 150, with Patrick Sheltra leading, Coulter was ninth - a difference equivalent to a 40-point shift in the final race of the Four Crown pursuit. For Coulter, who entered with only a 45-point advantage over Sheltra, the margin was too close to comfort. A fall of just one more position would have entered the two drivers into a tiebreaker for the Four Crown Award, which would have been won by Sheltra by virtue of the third tie-breaking criterion: most victories. Sheltra's two - at Chicagoland and the dirt oval at the Illinois State Fairgrounds - would have edged Coulter's one, earned at the Berlin (Mich.) Raceway short track on August 7.

 

Coulter rose to eighth, however, and defeated Sheltra at the top of the Four Crown standings by 10 points, 745-735. Coulter ended the competition with finishes of first (Berlin), second (New Jersey Motorsports Park, road course), fourth (Illinois State Fairgrounds), and eighth.

 

"It is really an honor," Coulter said after the race. "It is one of those awards I've always known about, and thought, 'Man, it'd be really cool to be able to go to four different race tracks and run really good.' When we won the first race at Berlin, I thought we really had a shot to win it this year. My strategy was to do good at the short track and survive on the road course, because I don't have a lot of experience there, and then go after it on the dirt track and come (to Chicagoland) and go after it."

 

Coulter mentioned his second-place finish on the road course as a key point for believing himself to be the top contender.

 

Four Crown points are allocated without qualifying or in-race bonuses, and distributed in the same method as in the official series standings. A race winner receives 200 points, the second-place finisher receives 195, and following positions receive five fewer points per lower position until five points are awarded to a 40th-place finisher, if necessary.

 

The top 10 drivers in the final Four Crown standings are as follows: 1. Coulter 745; 2. Sheltra 735; 3. Tom Hessert 725; 4. Steve Arpin 715; 5. Frank Kimmel 695; 6. Craig Goess 655; 7. Dakoda Armstrong 640; 8. Mikey Kile 620; 9. Bryan Silas 530; 10. Tim George Jr. 530.

 

Third All Too Common for Enfinger: Grant Enfinger (No. 09 BeasleyAllen.com Ford) made just his 17th career ARCA Racing Series start in Friday's Ansell Protective Gloves 150, but finished in third place for the fifth time overall and over his last 12 races. Enfinger has finished in that position three times this season alone, with the first two occurrences happening at Texas in April and at Iowa last month.

 

Enfinger, who runs a limited schedule in a car owned by Robby Benton, had entered the weekend as the highest-returning finisher at Chicagoland Speedway after posting a runner-up result in 2009.

 

Statistical Oddity for Sheltra: Patrick Sheltra's win was not only his first ARCA Racing Series victory on a speedway, but it represented the completion of a peculiar statistical quirk through seven races on such tracks.

 

In races on paved ovals over one mile in distance this season, Sheltra has finished in each of the first seven positions exactly once. He finished fifth at Daytona, seventh at Texas, second at Talladega, fourth at Pocono in June, third at Michigan, sixth at Pocono in July, and first at Chicagoland.

 

Remarkably, Craig Goess is only one race away from the same seven-race oddity. His 34th-place result at Daytona preceded finishes of second at Texas, fourth at Talladega, first at Pocono in June, sixth at Michigan, third at Pocono in July, and fifth at Chicagoland.

 

Sheltra is the only driver this season with seven top-10 finishes in as many speedway races; Goess and Justin Marks have six apiece.

 

Career High for Fowler: Eighteen-year-old Kyle Fowler (No. 52 Schrader Racing Chevrolet) of Georgia finished 12th in the Ansell Protective Gloves 150 to set a new career high. Fowler had finished 15th at Toledo in May and 22nd at Iowa in July in his only previous ARCA Racing Series starts.

 

Other notable highlights included: Kyle Martel (13th) posting the third top-15 of his partial season for the No. 43 Hanover Cold Storage/Finish Line Express Chevrolet owned by his father, Bill Martel; Chris Cockrum (No. 28 Hixson Construction Chevrolet) finishing 15th in his first appearance in the series since a 12th-place result in the season opener at Daytona; and Tony Palumbo (No. 70 NOTW.com Ford) achieving a career best in 17th place.

 

Sheltra Advances in Lap Leader Standings: Patrick Sheltra's 85 laps led Friday gave him the $500 Aaron's Lap Leader Award for the Ansell Protective Gloves 150 and moved him from 10th place and into third in the year-long Aaron's Lap Leader Award standings. Sheltra has led 100 of the 206 laps contested in the previous two races and 164 in all over four races this season. He trails only Chris Buescher (209) and Steve Arpin (196).

 

Additionally, Sheltra led at Lap 50 to win the $500 Messina Halfway Leader Award.

 

Chad Finley led three laps just before the race's halfway point and became the 24th driver to lead in the series this season.

 

Five Races to Reach Record: Patrick Sheltra became just the second driver with multiple wins in the ARCA Racing Series in 2010, joining Steve Arpin (Salem, Texas). Each driver scored his pair of victories consecutively.

 

Five races remain on the ARCA Racing Series schedule, allowing several chances for two more winners to materialize. Such an occurrence would give the series 15 different race winners in 2010 and tie the record set in the first 22 of 23 races in 2007. Nine-time champion Frank Kimmel, a winner of 74 races in his career, has not yet won in 2010.

 

Eleven of the 13 drivers to win this year have been first-time winners in the series.

 

Craig Goess became the second driver with multiple Menards Pole Awards in 2010, joining Chris Buescher. Eleven drivers with one pole each are tied for second place in the season-long Menards Pole Award standings.

 

Continuing Through Illinois: The ARCA Racing Series presented by RE/MAX and Menards visits the one-mile Du Quoin (Ill.) State Fairgrounds dirt oval in Du Quoin, Ill. for a Labor Day tradition on Monday, September 6. Practice begins at 10 a.m. Eastern/9 a.m. Central, and Menards Pole Qualifying presented by Ansell follows at noon Eastern/11 a.m. Central. The 100-lap, 100-mile Southern Illinois 100 presented by Federated Auto Parts takes place at 2 Eastern/1 Central. Live timing and scoring and live audio coverage for all three events will be presented by ARCA Nation and the ARCA Racing Network at ARCARacing.com.

 

Frank Kimmel is the all-time leading winner at the track with five victories (2001, 2002, 2004, 2005, 2008). Parker Kligerman, last season's leading winner with nine victories, won last year to sweep the dirt oval portion of the schedule.

 

The ARCA Racing Series presented by RE/MAX and Menards features 20 events at 17 tracks on its 2010 schedule. The series has crowned an ARCA national champion each year since its inaugural season in 1953, and has toured over 200 racetracks in 28 states since its inception. The series tests the abilities of drivers and race teams over the most diverse schedule of stock car racing events in the world, annually visiting tracks ranging from 0.4 mile to 2.66 miles in length, on both paved and dirt surfaces as well as left- and right-turn street and road courses.

 

Founded by John 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 two professional touring series and local weekly events.

 

 

(DuQUOIN, Ill.) - It's a throwback to how it used to be when people came from miles around to eat corn dogs and elephant ears at the fair while they waited for their national heroes to race Stock Cars and Champ Cars.

It's how it used to be; and for the versatile ARCA Racing Series presented by RE/MAX and Menards teams, it's how it still is, and will be, when the renowned stock car tour, in its 58th consecutive season, comes to the sleepy little corner of southern Illinois to mix it up on the "Magic Mile".

And yes, the track's still dirt; the garage floor is still grass; the raceday ticket price is still reasonable, and the crowds are still among the healthiest anywhere in ARCA.

It's the 58th Southern Illinois 100 at the 88th annual DuQuoin State Fair in DuQuoin, Illinois, and it's next in the ARCA Series lineup Labor Day Monday, September 6th.

There is also a healthy field of top-notch ARCA Series warriors with story lines galore on the way for the historical stock car classic, a crowd pleaser since 1950, the year that Jay Frank won the inaugural Southern Illinois 100 in an Oldsmobile Rocket. Little could he know that some of the most recognizable names in racing would follow in his Victory Lane footsteps - names like Jerry Unser, Jimmy Bryan, Fred Lorenzen, Joe Leonard, Don White, AJ Foyt, Jack Bowsher, Rusty Wallace, Dean Roper, Bob Keselowski, Bob Strait, Frank Kimmel, Tony Stewart, Ken Schrader and Parker Kligerman.

But that's exactly what happened as the event, over time, turned itself into one of the most prestigious mile-dirt stock car races in America.

Schrader, a two-time Southern Illinois 100 winner, is again entered for this year's race.

"I can't miss DuQuoin," said Schrader. "That place is just too special for me. It's one of the first tracks my daddy took me to when I was a kid. I remember sleeping in the back of his station wagon excited as could be. Got to see all my heroes race there. The place was special then, and it still is today."

However, the event at DuQuoin will merely be the fourth in a row for Schrader this holiday weekend. Schrader will be racing in West Virginia Friday and Saturday nights before making his way to Lincoln, Nebraska where he will compete in a dirt late model Sunday. All this before he walks through the gate at DuQuoin bright and early Monday morning.

Of course, this is all nothing new for Schrader, who's been doing it this way for decades.

"I'll just grab a shower at the hotel and then meet the boys in the lobby because I think practice (at DuQuoin) is at 9 a.m," added the 55-year-old driver. "We've won DuQuoin twice, so we're looking forward to going back there."

When probed about the adjustment of going from a high-speed superspeedway to a mile dirt track, which he has done so many times in the past; or from a late model to an ARCA car, Schrader said, "There's no adjustment on this stuff. You've got this circle; you sit in a car; you've only got a couple of pedals that do anything, and you go around the circle as fast as you can."

Schrader has competed in every Southern Illinois 100 since 2001. In addition to his back-to-back wins in 2006 and 2007, the Fenton, Missouri driver finished second in 2003, third in 2002 and 2008, fourth in 2001, fifth in 2009 and eighth in 2004. He also earned two Menards Pole Awards presented by Ansell in '04 and '06.

ARCA Racing Series practice for the 58th Southern Illinois 100 is scheduled from 9:00-10:00 a.m. local Central time Monday, September 6, followed by Menards Pole Qualifying presented by Ansell at 11:00. The start of the Southern Illinois 100 presented by Federated Car Care is set for 1:00 p.m.

The event will also feature Live Timing and Scoring at ARCAracing.com of all the on-track activity throughout the day. There will also be Live Streaming Audio of practice, qualifying as well as flag-to-flag race coverage at ARCAracing.com via the ARCA Racing Network. 

 

SCHEDULES

 

2010 ARCA REMAX SCHEDULE

 

 

 02/09/2010

Lucas Oil Slick Mist 200
Daytona International Speedway
Daytona Beach, Florida
TBD SPD 200 Miles

02/29/2010

ARCA Racing 150
Palm Beach International Speedway
Palm Beach, Florida
TBD 150 Miles

04/13/2010

Kentuckiana Ford Dealers 200 by Federated Auto Parts
Salem Speedway
Salem, Indiana
TBD
200 Laps
 

04/16/2010

Rattlesnake 150
Texas Motor Speedway
Fort Worth, Texas
TBD SPD 150 Miles

04/23/2010

ARCA Racing Series 250
 
Talladega Superspeedway
Talladega, Alabama
TBD SPD 250 Miles
05/23/2010
Menards 200 by Federated Car Care
Toledo Speedway
Toledo, Ohio
TBD SPD 200 Laps
 

06/05/2010

Pocono ARCA 200
Pocono Raceway
Long Pond, Pennsylvania
TBD SPD 200 Miles
 

06/11/2010

Racing for Wildlife 200
Michigan International Speedway
Brooklyn, Michigan
TBD SPD 200 Miles
 

07/10/2010

Prairie Meadows 200
Iowa Speedway
Newton, Iowa
TBD SPD 200 Laps
 

07/17/2010

Tim Richmond Memorial ARCA 200
 
Mansfield Motorsports Park
Mansfield, Ohio
TBD
200 Laps
 

07/31/2010

Pennsylvania ARCA 125
 
Pocono Raceway
Long Pond, Pennsylvania
TBD SPD 125 Miles
 

08/07/2010

Berlin ARCA 200
Berlin Speedway
Marne, Michigan
TBD
200 Laps
 

08/15/2010

South Jersey Building Trades 150
 
New Jersey Motorsports Park
Millville, New Jersey
TBD
150 Miles
08/22/2010
Allen Crowe 100
Illinois State Fairgrounds 
Springfield, Illinois
TBD 100 Miles

08/27/2010

Chicagoland ARCA 150
 
Chicagoland Speedway
Joliet, Illinois
TBD SPD 150 Miles
 

09/06/2010

Southern Illinois 100
 
DuQuoin State Fairgrounds
DuQuoin, Illinois
TBD
100 09/12/2010
Toledo ARCA 200
 
Toledo Speedway
Toledo, Ohio
TBD
200 Laps
09/18/2010
Salem ARCA 200
 
Salem Speedway
Salem, Indiana
TBD
200 Laps
 

09/30/2010 ARCA Racing Series 150

Kansas Speedway
Kansas City, Kansas
TBD SPD 150 Miles
 

10/09/2010

American 200
 
Rockingham Speedway
Rockingham, North Carolina
TBD SPD 200 Laps
 

 

 

2010 SCHEDULE 

Sat. April 24 Salem Speedway Salem, IN
 
  Sat. May 22   Toledo Speedway Toledo, OH
 
  Sat. May 29   Flat Rock Speedway Flat Rock, MI
 
  Sat. June 20   Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course Lexington, OH
 
  Sat. June 26   Lorain Co. Speedway Amherst, OH
 
  Fri. July 16   Skyline Speedway Stewart, OH
 
  Sat. July 24   Angola Motor Speedway Fremont, IN
 
  Fri. July 30   MotorDrome Speedway Smithton, PA
 
  Sat. August 7   Peterborough Speedway Peterborough, ON
 
  Sat. August 14   Midvale Speedway Midvale, OH
 
  Sat. August 28   Sauble Speedway Sauble Beach, ON
 
  Sat. September 11   Newport Speedway Newport, TN
 

 

 

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