“A Champion Is As A Champion Does”
Sunday gave no indication that this race on a road course was going to be anything more than another road course race. As a rule, they are an opportunity to take a nap. But Montreal was different. The NASCAR Nationwide Series raced it as hard as they race any short track and the cars looked it at the end.
This was the last road course race for these cars, as next year the Nationwide Car of Tomorrow will compete in all the events. One would imagine by the way they raced that the crew chiefs told them to bring back the steering wheels because the cars were obsolete. Not even the winner had a clean car.
The racing was not the only surprise the fans were in for. The winner would not be a NASCAR regular. Instead he would be a “ringer”. A favorite ringer, but a ringer none the less.
Boris Said proved why he is the go to man and teacher for road course racing. He was just aggressive enough to get the job done. Smooth and fast with the brakes. His performance, with the exception of a few wrinkles in his fenders and rear bumper cover was flawless.
But his victory was not a given thing. As a matter of fact, the dominate car on the day belonged to Marcos Ambrose who was again snake bitten at Montreal. Losing an alternator and then blowing the engine on his Little Debbie ride. He was followed to the garage very shortly by Carl Edwards. Robby Gordon’s gas mileage play didn’t work out leaving him sitting in a run off watching the last 3 laps of the race. They weren’t the only ones with problems though. Broken trailing arms, multi car wrecks and spins, failed brakes and blown engines. Would all take their toll on the Series Regulars.
This left Said and Max Papis, a ringer turned regular from Italy that has been embraced and accepted as one of our own, to settle the race. What was about to unfold was a thing of beauty. It made it clear to this writer why there are fans of road course racing. These two guys were absolutely wide open and poetry in motion. They encompassed all the short track action and all the road course finesse that is more than likely the reason that NASCAR insists on keeping these normal snooze fests on the schedule. This was a race that was decided in the last 5 feet. Boris Said won the drag race to the checkered flag, literally by a bumper.
When it was all over, race fans got a taste of what it truly means to be a champion. Boris Said complimented Max Papis. He gave him credit. He admitted he wasn’t sure he could hold him off. The drag race down the final stretch wasn’t a sure thing in his book. But “Max raced me clean. He raced me hard. But he raced me clean.”
Max Papis thanked his owners for the opportunity and told the world how proud he had been to drive their car. How proud he was that he could do so well for his sponsor and how happy he was for Boris Said.
How refreshing. No name calling. No finger pointing. No disrespect to owners, sponsors, fans or other drivers. There was just excitement over the victory, and the thrill of the race and coming so close to victory. Maybe there is more to be learned on these road courses after all.
This was not an overnight success for either driver. Boris Said made his first NASCAR start in 1997 in the then Craftsmen Truck Series. He has been utilized as a ringer since then and can now boast impressive figures in all three series including, 23 top tens and now a second win. The two time winner of the 24 hours of Daytona had struggled and searched for that second win since 1998. Followed by his devoted fans (The Said Heads), Boris never gave up and turned in more top 10 finishes on road courses than any other competitor in any series.
Best known as the teacher to the pro’s, Said has taught some of NASCAR’s elite how to handle a road course. Joking recently that he may have taught them too well, his students include, Carl Edwards, Dale Earnhardt Jr. and Tony Stewart to name a few.
Two years ago at Watkins Glen, Max Papis made his Sprint Cup debut as a ringer for DEI. He was near tears in his post race interview after being taken out in a wreck that blocked the track on a blind corner. He wanted to do well so badly he told reporters that day. He wanted to show that he was a capable racer. What he did was more than that. He showed the world what kind of champion he is. He cares about winning and losing. He cares about doing well for his sponsors and his fans. He cares about his job performance.
There is never a race that Max Papis drives in that afterwards he does not thank his fans on Twitter and give them a little of what he feels about how the race went. How refreshing is that. A driver that actually thanks his fans for standing with him and behind him, and tells them “we go on to the next one.”
Max Papis sets the example, as did Boris Said that we would like to see our children follow. He does so because he has children that he sets the example for. Does he have a temper, he is human and he is a native of Como, Italy, so of course he does. But he has learned through his experiences in Formula 1 and Indy Racing League (IRL) to control those emotions and pursue the goal, Victory.
Max says, “My dream is to compete and win in NASCAR and to be the first European to be there among so many great American racing icons.” He came very close on Sunday. But his chances are not over. Max will be taking over the number 9 Germain Racing Truck full time in 2011.
Max, sei un campione. siamo orgogliosi di averti. grazie per farci meglio i fan. I pray you will forgive my poor Italian but understand that it is with the greatest respect that I attempted to tell you that you are a champion and we are proud to have you. Thank you for making us better fans with your example.
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Congratulations to Kyle Busch on his Camping World Truck Victory and to Boris Said on his well deserved Nationwide Series Victory. Also Congratulations to Patrick Sheltra on his Automobile Racing Club of America (ARCA) win at Chicagoland Speedway on Friday as well.
That said to all the competitors in all the series thanks for giving us everything you have to give. You are our heroes. Most importantly though thanks to all the families who share their loved ones with us each and every week so that we can cheer our favorite driver and favorite teams. You are the true heroes of the sport and we are forever in your debt.
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You can learn more about Max Papis and his career at www.MaxPapis.com. You can find Max’s Twitter feed at http://twitter.com/maxpapis .
You can find Boris Said on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/#!/profile.php?id=1534514283&ref=ts .
ARCA champ Lofton struggling in rookie truck season
So splendid were the fortunes of Justin Lofton last year in the ARCA Racing Series that he doesn’t remember hardly anything going wrong.
Now a rookie in the NASCAR Camping World Truck Series, Lofton, can’t get much of anything to go right.
Lofton, 24, a winner of six ARCA races en route to the 2009 title, is downright sick of losing in the truck series. He is 14th in points with one top 10 (a third at Dover) in 12 starts.
“It honestly has been tough, not only for me but for my crew chief and car chief and a couple other guys that I brought along with me over to Red Horse from Eddie Sharp’s (ARCA team),” Lofton said. “We were all used to almost nothing could go wrong. I think we really had one mechanical issue last year … and other than that, it was pretty much a picture-perfect season and just something that it became really comfortable and a lot of fun.
“And this year it was in a way very humbling, not that we really got in over our head or thought we were better than anyone else or anything like that. It was just (that) we kind of set our standard for ourselves, and I guess we’ve kind of been knocked from that down and kind of been shown what racing can do to you.”
Saturday’s inaugural Pocono Mountains 125 at Pocono Raceway may be a good opportunity for Lofton to turn the tide. He won one ARCA race at Pocono last year and finished second in the other. He has four starts there, making Pocono one of the few tracks in the truck series where he has as much or more experience than the majority of his competition.
“Track time—seat time—is the single most important thing in racing, and I definitely think I have an advantage over, I’d say, 75 percent of the field,” Lofton said of Pocono. “I know there’s a couple guys—(Todd) Bodine, (Mike) Skinner, (Kasey) Kahne and (Denny) Hamlin—that have a lot of track time there, but other than that, I think I might be one step ahead of it, especially having a crew chief (Mark Rette) that I raced with last year and we won together there last year.
“I think we know weather patterns, we kind of know what to expect right off the bat. If practice gets fogged out, rained out, we’re pretty confident in what we’re taking as far as the setup and what to expect during the race than I think a lot of other people are being prepared for.”
Bodine, the series points leader, is a big fan of Lofton. Bodine says many of Lofton’s problems haven’t been of his own making—such as last weekend at O’Reilly Raceway Park when a mechanical issue in the final 50 laps derailed a likely top-10 finish.
“They’ve been very competitive,” Bodine said of Lofton and the Red Horse team. “Unfortunately, they’ve had a lot of bad luck; some of it their own doing, some of it other people’s doing, getting caught up in things. I think Justin is a very capable racecar driver.
“I think for any sponsor, he’s a very good marketing tool. He’s a very good-looking boy, very well-spoken, knows how to handle himself. He’s got everything it takes.”
Lofton believes that, too. That’s why, at least publically, he’s not fearful he could lose his ride if matters don’t quickly improve.
“You really can’t put a lot of blame on me or my crew for some of these things that we’ve had happen to us. We really don’t have any of that ‘if I don’t perform, I’m out,’ ” Lofton said. “They have a tremendous amount of confidence in me, and I have a tremendous amount of confidence in them. And as long as we stay together and we keep working as a team, then we’ll come out of this and we’ll come out of this looking really, really good.”
Fast facts
What: Pocono Mountains 125
Where: Pocono Raceway; Long Pond, Pa.
When: Saturday, 1 p.m. ET
TV: Speed, 12:30 p.m. ET
Radio: MRN/SIRIUS Satellite Ch. 128
Track layout: 2.5-mile triangle
Race distance: 50 laps/125 miles
Qualifying: Saturday, 10 a.m. ET
2009 winner: Inaugural race
Points leaders: 1. Todd Bodine, 1,861; 2. Aric Almirola, 1,684; 3. Johnny Sauter, 1,679; 4. Ron Hornaday Jr., 1,649; 5. Timothy Peters, 1,649; 6. Austin Dillon, 1,584; 7. Matt Crafton, 1,583; 8. Mike Skinner, 1,574; 9. David Starr, 1,528; 10. Jason White, 1,493.
Mikey Kile wins Racing for Wildlife 200
BROOKLYN, Mich. — Mikey Kile needed a late caution in the Racing for Wildlife 200 ARCA Racing Series event at Michigan International Speedway on Friday, got it, unlike last week at Pocono, and posted his first victory in 16 attempts on the circuit.
It appeared pole-sitter Craig Goess had the field covered, leading from the start, until he pitted under green with 25 laps remaining in the 100-lap event. But a caution appeared when Chase Mattioli spun out. That allowed Kile, who was running second, to pit under yellow, assume the lead and he was never threatened after that.
Kile saw just the opposite situation the previous week at Pocono when he led for 67 laps of the 80-lap event and appeared ready to win when a late caution flag pushed him back in the field with Goess taking advantage of the situation for his first win this season.
“I think all the racing Gods were with us this week,” said Kile, the 27-year-old from Westlake, La. “We led most of the laps last week at Pocono and came up short when we got a caution we didn’t need, but the roles were reversed today and a caution came out when we needed it.”
Kile was the sixth different first-time winner this year and seventh different winner in eight races.
“I didn’t know who I was racing and who was on the lead lap after the caution,” Kile said. “I didn’t know if I was racing the 81 (Goess) or what. I felt like us and the 81 were the class of the field. I figured if we didn’t get another caution after that we would be in good shape.”
Goess finished sixth and was the last car on the lead lap after going a lap down during the late caution period.
“We ran away from everybody all day,” Goess said. “You can’t come back from being a lap down. What will help me sleep tonight is that were the dominant car all day. It was a solid weekend for us.”
Joey Coulter finished second followed by current ARCA points leader Patrick Sheltra, Justin Marks and Frank Kimmel.
Patrick finishes sixth in stock car debut
Her well anticipated stock car debut finally happened on Saturday night at Daytona International Speedway; however it didn’t necessarily go without a hitch. Danica Patrick’s first race in a stock car went quite smoothly throughout the first half of the race, mostly because of the lack of green flag racing. However, it began to heat up halfway through the 80-lap event when Patrick took her first spin through the grass, causing only minimal damage.
From there, she was a girl on a mission, crawling her way from last to her final finishing position of sixth place making her the best finishing female since Shawna Robinson in 1999 at Daytona.
Patrick led no laps during the event, which was won by Bobby Gerhart, but was as high as fifth during the Lucas Oil 200.
The next decision on Patrick’s plate is whether or not to move her NASCAR debut up one weekend and start at Daytona next week. Currently, her scheduled debut is slated for Auto Club Speedway in two weeks. However, whether or not she runs in next week’s Nationwide Series race at Daytona was to be based on tonight’s Arca Series race.
Patrick ran the race in a No. 7 GoDaddy.com sponsored JR Motorsports Chevrolet in tonight’s race.
Patrick 12th in ARCA qualifying; Buescher wins pole
DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. — Unlike the relentless wave of notoriety that escorted her into stock car racing, Danica Patrick’s visit to the top of the scoring pylon Friday at Daytona International Speedway was all too fleeting.
The 10th driver to make a qualifying run for Saturday’s Lucas Oil Slick Mist 200 ARCA race at the 2.5-mile track, Patrick claimed the provisional pole at 179.788 mph. Before she finished her interview on pit road, however, Penske Development driver Dakoda Armstrong had knocked Patrick from the top spot.
After all 47 drivers had taken their respective shots, Patrick held the 12th starting position for her much-heralded stock car racing debut, scheduled for 4:30 p.m. ET Saturday. Defending race winner James Buescher will start from the pole after a lap at 181.543 mph.
Patrick ran the top of the track during the first of her two laps. For the lap that counted — the second — she tried to hug the yellow line at the bottom of the speedway.
“It felt good, and I felt like I could really keep it down on the yellow line,” Patrick said after climbing from the car and debriefing with crew chief Tony Eury Jr. “I lost it just a bit — I was up just a little bit in (Turns) 3 and 4, but I think that, overall, we picked the right gear, and we made the car better in practice, and we actually did work on the car yesterday in practice — it wasn’t right.
“Tony’s done a great job. They told me what to do. It’s pretty straightforward. You run it on the top, drop it down low and keep it on the line. I’m sure it’ll be much harder at most other tracks.”
Patrick said her comfort level will determine how she’ll run the race — whether she’ll drop back at the start and feel out the car in her first competitive run.
“My tendency as a driver is to make sure that I learn and finish the race and get the most out of my car, and if I’m not sure where that limit is, I’m not going to overstep my bounds,” Patrick said. “I make no progress if I go out there and lose it on the first lap. If I feel comfortable, I’m sure I’ll stay right where I’m at, and if I don’t feel comfortable, I’ll have to work my way back up.”
To Eury, seeing Patrick on the pole, albeit briefly, was gratifying.
“It was pretty cool to see her get up there, but I’d rather see her sitting up there when we win the race on Saturday,” Eury said. “We’ll just have to see how things play out.”
Eury said Patrick’s comfort level also will determine whether she’ll compete in next Saturday’s Drive4COPD 300 NASCAR Nationwide Series race.
“Just if she’s comfortable — that’s the bottom line,” Eury said. “It’s not us out there that’s got to drive. I just want her to feel comfortable with what she’s doing, so she can react to things, so that she knows how the draft will work.
“If she feels comfortable, then I’d be more than happy to come down here with her, but I’d rather for it to be her choice.”
Though Saturday’s race will set TV viewership records for an ARCA event — thanks to Patrick’s presence in the field — Buescher doesn’t plan to give Patrick — one of six women in the field — special treatment.
“She’s just another driver in the field and that’s how you have to look at it,” Buescher said. “Hopefully everyone in our race stays smart and no one over-drives, trying to impress the large audience we’ll have for this race.”
Patrick completes first day of stock car drafting
NASCAR’s newest female driver completed her first day of on-track drafting practice in a stock car Saturday at Daytona International Speedway for the ARCA Re/Max Series test. Danica Patrick, who will race in a little more than a dozen races in the upcoming Nationwide Series season as well as a few sporadic events in the ARCA Series, has spent the last two days getting acquainted with a JR Motorsports stock car as she prepares for a busy racing schedule that will include events in both open wheel and stock car racing leagues next year.
During what was the second test day of the weekend, Patrick clocked in at 179.183 mph in the morning session, good for 25th place on the speed charts. She ended the day’s afternoon session 19th on the speed chart with a top speed of 181.554 mph. Patrick closed out the day’s worth of testing 20th on the board with her fastest lap being 181.375 mph.
At the end of the day, Patrick said there was some surprises and some major differences involved with the art of drafting on superspeedways.
“I guess you can run a lot closer than what I thought,” Patrick said. “Two car lengths up above from my spotter is like on him for me. That’s on him, you are on him in IndyCar. It was a little bit more challenging to get that last car length or get up on him. We even got to the point where they’re like, ‘give him a little bump down the straight.’ I was trying but I couldn’t catch him. It’s getting into that mode that you need to be right on him to take advantage of the situation and stay with the draft.”
While only two days into a stock car career that will begin at the season-open ARCA Series event at Daytona in February, Patrick says she is beginning to become more comfortable with the car and is excited to return to the Florida track on Sunday to finish the three-day test.
“It was a lot of fun,” Patrick said. “It’s different than driving the cars that I drive. You can run so much closer and you can cross over each other. But you need to run really close so like there’s no room for error if someone makes a mistake. That’s going to be the challenge. But it was a productive day. I learned a lot and I feel really comfortable in the car. Tomorrow (Sunday) is going to be even better.”
Patrick’s day consisted of several 10-lap runs with 40 consecutive laps being her largest run of the day. Crew chief Tony Eury Jr. said that he is happy with the progress Patrick has made in the short period she has had in the cars so far. According Eury Jr., after another day of on-track drafting, the team—and driver—will be ready to go.
“She’s doing really good,” Eury Jr. said. “Drafting is not something that you learn overnight. She has done really good learning how to stay in a pack, learning what the car does in different aero situations. We’re pretty pleased. I think I need a little more speed in the car just in single car runs. Overall, it has been a good successful day. We’ll come back here tomorrow and let her draft a little bit more and I think we will be game on.”
Patrick wasn’t the only female driver on the track today. In fact, a total of ten girls strapped in for a few laps around the Daytona International Speedway on Saturday. Besides Patrick, Amber and Angela Cope, Alli Owens, Ashley Parlett, Jennifer Jo Cobb, Jill Georg, Leilani Munter, Michelle Theriault and Milka Duno are the other nine female drivers in Daytona this weekend.
“They are 10 girls out here now so it’s just not me anymore,” Owens said. “There are a lot of us out here. I’m looking forward to seeing how they do compared to us. I know we have really good equipment. It will be nice to see them up there on the board.
“It’s a really good sign for the sport. I try not to get caught up in the female aspect of it. To me when they put their helmet on, they are nine other drivers out there to beat.”
Mikey Kile, driver of the No. 25 Venturini Motorsports Toyota, was the fastest driver throughout the three sessions today with a top speed of 183.061 mph.
Danica Patrick announces limited Nationwide schedule
A year’s worth of rumors and speculation regarding Danica Patrick’s move to NASCAR were put to rest on Tuesday in Phoenix, Ariz. when it was announced that Danica Patrick would drive the No. 7 GoDaddy.com Chevrolet in the Nationwide Series for JR Motorsports. After signing a three-year contract with IndyCar Series team Andretti Autosport, 27-year-old Patrick will race open-wheel and stock car races concurrently.
- GoDaddy PR
According to JR Motorsports Vice President Kelly Earnhardt Elledge, the No. 5 Nationwide Series team will not race next year, as it stands right now. Earnhardt Elledge continued to say that Patrick will be locked into the field, however she did not directly say the points would come from the No. 5 team. This means that JR Motorsports will continue to be a two car team with a full-time operation, the No. 88 driven by Kelly Bires, and the No. 7 part-time operation.
Patrick will drive a limited schedule in the JRM Chevrolet with her NASCAR Nationwide Series debut and number of races still to be determined. Dale Earnhardt Jr.’s former crew chief in the Sprint Cup Series, Tony Eury Jr., will be her Nationwide Series crew chief.
“We’re not a 100 percent sure on the all of the details (NASCAR schedule) at this point, but the primary focus will be before and after the IndyCar Series season as IndyCar is the primary focus,” Patrick said.
Patrick will be with a JRM Chevrolet on Dec. 18-20 for the ARCA Series test at Daytona.
- GoDaddy PR
“One of the things JRM has to offer is proven NASCAR experience,” Kelly Earnhardt Elledge said. “This is a team sport, and our team will help Danica get up to speed quickly. She’s slated to begin working with our crew starting with the upcoming ARCA tests.”
Before arriving to race at Daytona, however, Patrick will first participate in the ARCA Series event at Daytona on Feb. 6. This is because of a technicality in which NASCAR requires competitors to race a restrictor plate race in another series before they can do so in one of NASCAR’s top-three national touring series.
Once she participates in the event, she will be cleared to race at any track, a NASCAR official confirmed.
This will be the first time in Patrick’s auto racing career that she will be driving a stock car in a competitive setting. The Roscoe, Ill. native did test a Nationwide Series car in 2002 before deciding to race in the IndyCar Series.
She made her IZOD IndyCar Series debut at Homestead in 2005 with Rahal Letterman Racing. After a two-year stint with RLR, she joined Andretti Autosport in 2007. With 81 career starts and three full-time seasons in the IndyCar Series, Patrick has posted one win and a career average finish of 10.1.
Patrick will be the 33rd woman to race in NASCAR and the 13th women to race in the Nationwide Series.
Lofton Holds Off Kligerman to Win at Salem; Regains ARCA Points Lead
SALEM, Ind. – The battle for the ARCA RE/MAX Series championship came down to a battle to the very end Saturday night at Salem Speedway where Justin Lofton held off a hard late-race charge from rookie Parker Kligerman to win the Kentuckiana Ford Dealers ARCA Fall Classic.
“This is just absolutely awesome to get a win at Salem,” said Lofton, driver of the Lofton Cattle Toyota. “It just means so much to me. There’s probably no other series that I am going to get to race in for the rest of my career that races at a track like Salem and to get a win here at this track in the ARCA RE/MAX Series is just absolutely awesome to me. This win is just as big as Chicagoland, Pocono and any of them. I think my battle with Parker Kligerman just shows the ability of the drivers in this Series.”
Lofton also regained the points lead over Kligerman by 25 points with just two races left.
“Me and Parker are going to be racing each other for a long time to come so there is no reason to get off on a bad note early in our careers,” added Lofton. “I barely lifted during those last 20 laps. It was unbelievable but that’s what it’s about. When you can get a win like that running this close it just means that much more to you then if you were to just run away with it.”
Kligerman, on the inside groove, was completely alongside Lofton for much of the final 10 laps, but could not find the momentum to pull off the pass. Kligerman, in the Cunningham Motorsports Dodge, took one more shot at Lofton off turn four coming to the checkered flag, but had to settle for second, a half-length away.
“I think I kind of let my team down there at that last run,” said Kligerman. “I should have gotten by Justin Lofton but we’re racing for a championship here and I don’t want to get into the situation that you saw those two (Ricky Stenhouse and Scott Speed) get into running for the Championship last year. Hopefully Justin Lofton will remember that the next two races going into the end of the season.”
Kligerman had several opportunities to move the eventual winner in the closing laps but chose otherwise.
“I was running right behind him [Justin Lofton] and I could have moved him a bunch of times,” added Kligerman. “He was all over the place and I thought ‘I’ll just get by him, I’ll get by him clean and we’ll go on to the next race and we don’t need to get into a pushing match for a Championship. Maybe I’m a little bit too nice but hopefully he will remember that next week.”
Dakoda Armstrong finished a career-best third in a second Cunningham Motorsports Dodge.
“I just have to thank this Cunningham Motorsports team,” said Armstrong. “They put an awesome car together. I was a little bit worried because I didn’t think our car was that great during practice. I wish there would have been a yellow there at the end so that I could have caught back up to them but even without one it was a great race for us.”
Frank Kimmel finished fourth in the Ansell-Menards Ford.
“It was an interesting night, that’s for sure,” said Kimmel. “Our car was okay-it wasn’t great. It had brake problems. It didn’t handle very good right in the middle of the racetrack and then we kind of got screwed out of the Aaron’s Lucky Dog really bad right there at the end of the race. We would have finished third instead of fourth but that was a bad, bad call. We didn’t scratch the car too much and we finished the race so we will go on from there.”
Steve Arpin was fifth in the Taylor Chassis-Pinewood Sports Chevrolet.
Lofton, from the second starting position, dominated much of the race, leading 161 of 200 laps. Outside of Kligerman, Lofton’s biggest challenger was Joey Coulter, who was the only driver in the field who was able to pass Lofton. After Lofton led the first 136 laps, Coulter finally caught Lofton and made the pass on the 137th lap. From there, Coulter continually pulled away from Lofton before a late-race caution bunched up the field inside of 40 laps from the finish. Coulter held off Lofton for five laps after the restart but slipped high in turn one allowing Lofton to get underneath for the lead on lap 169. It got worse for Coulter a few laps later when the Miami Springs, Florida driver bounced off the wall in turn four ending his night 20 laps shy of the finish. The incident brought out the final caution of the night that set up the battle to the checkered flag between Lofton and Kligerman.
Stephan McCurley, making his return to ARCA RE/MAX Series competition, finished sixth in the Porter Glass-American Screen-Royal Purple Chevrolet in front of Terry Jones, who drove the Jones Group Dodge home in seventh. Tom Hessert finished eighth in the Cherry Hill Classic Cars Ford with Bryan Silas trailing in ninth in the Rockingham Speedway-PBG Ford. Ken Butler III finished 10th in the LoanMax Ford.
Chris Buescher earned the Menards Pole Award presented by Ansell but fell out just before halfway with battery issues. Just five cautions slowed the race for 28 laps.
The next event for the ARCA RE/MAX Series will be the Kansas Lottery 150 at Kansas Speedway Thursday night, October 1st, live on SPEED at 5:00 PM ET.
