2008
ARCA Racing: By the Numbers
5…..Record
setting number of different drivers who came into the final race of the
2008 ARCA RE/MAX Series at Toledo
Speedway with a chance to win the championship.
6…..Number
of race wins by Justin
Allgaier, who broke Frank Kimmel’s streak of eight consecutive
(nine overall) titles by earning the 2008 ARCA RE/MAX Series Championship.
Allgaier posted race wins on a variety of tracks on the diverse ARCA
RE/MAX Series tour, including Salem, Cayuga, Pocono, New
Jersey Motorsports Park, Talladega and Toledo. Six is also the
number of SunTrust Rookie of
the Year contenders who finished in the top-10 in the final point
standings this season.
7…..Race
wins in 2008 by Canton, Michigan’s Paul Hahn en route to the 2008 ARCA
Lincoln Welders Truck Series title, bringing his career total to 22.
10…..Different
ARCA RE/MAX Series race winners in 2008, including Matt Hawkins, Scott
Speed, Ricky Stenhouse, Jr., Matt Carter, Michael
Annett, Justin Allgaier, Frank
Kimmel, Scott Lagasse, Jr. and Justin Lofton.
17…..Number
of consecutive years that Frank
Kimmel has finished in the top-10 in the final ARCA RE/MAX Series
point standings. Kimmel’s career has included an unprecedented nine
driving championships (1998, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006,
2007) and a Series’ leading 9,958 laps led in 184 races among 74 career
victories. He finished second in the 2008 point standings during his first
year as a car owner/driver.
20…..Approximate
number of cases of Red Bull that the No. 2 Eddie Sharp Racing team went
through each race weekend while stocking the fridge next to their hauler.
The supply usually consisted of ten cases of Red Bull and ten cases of
Sugar Free Red Bull.
38…..Days
until the 2009 Lucas Oil
Slick Mist 200 at Daytona Int’l Speedway.
62.75…..Average
percentage of green flag
laps during ARCA RE/MAX Series races in 2008.
95…..Age
of ARCA Matriarch Mildred Marcum upon her upcoming January birthday.
Marcum founded ARCA in 1953 with her husband John Marcum and still works
at the ARCA Home Office in Temperance, Michigan, on a daily basis.
100…..Total
career ARCA sanctioned feature wins by Flat Rock-Toledo Speedway racer Ron
Allen in ARCA Late Model, Street Stock and Sportsman division racing.
Other drivers with more than 100 career race wins include Joey Fair and
Bob Studt.
110…..Number
of ARCA-sanctioned events in 2008; spread out among the ARCA RE/MAX
Series, ARCA
Lincoln Welders Truck Series, Flat Rock Speedway, Toledo Speedway
and demolition derby racing
at the Monroe County Fairgrounds in Michigan. The number does not include
ARCA West-sanctioned events.
161…..Number
of drivers that made ARCA RE/MAX Series starts in 2008. Drivers in the
Series represented 31 U.S. states and four countries, including Canada,
France, Belgium and Scotland. A total of 203 drivers attempted to make
ARCA RE/MAX Series race events.
407…..Number
of laps that Scott Speed led in 2008, spread out among 14 races, to clinch
the Aaron’s Lap Leader award for Eddie Sharp Racing. Frank Kimmel and Tim
Steele, who are ranked first and second among all time lap leaders,
both have multiple seasons which they have led 1,000 laps or more in a
single season of competition. Steele led 1,513 laps in 20 races in 1996
and 1,412 laps in 19 races in 1997. Kimmel led a career high 1,474 laps in
20 races in 2001 and went on to lead more than 1,000 laps in 2002, 2003
and 2004. In 2005, Joey
Miller earned the lap leader award in his rookie season of ARCA
RE/MAX Series competition with 1,002 laps led in 15 races.
1,159…..Racecars
inspected by ARCA RE/MAX Series officials in 2008.
3,042…..Number
of people who have signed up for ARCA Nation, the community-based social
networking enhancement to arcaracing.com
that allows fans, teams, sponsors and ARCA to communicate in real time.
3,406…..Miles
of ARCA RE/MAX Series racing in 2008, spread out among 21 events.
30,
424…..Highway miles logged by a typical full time Concord, North
Carolina-based race team transporter driver to get to and from ARCA RE/MAX
Series race events in 2008.
$3,607,850…..Total
prize, point and contingency money paid to ARCA RE/MAX Series race teams
this year.
For
more information on the ARCA RE/MAX Series, visit www.arcaracing.com.
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