 For
the second time in just three events this season, Erin Crocker earned the pole for an ARCA RE/MAX Series event. Crocker, who also earned the pole for the race
at Nashville in March, topped the 48-car field with a sizzling lap of 31.084
seconds around the 1.5-mile Kentucky Speedway tri-oval. Chad Blount was second
followed by rookie Joey Miller and David Ragan.
Forty cars took the green flag Friday night shortly after 8:00 pm with Chad
Blount immediately taking command. Blount led the first 68 laps before giving
way briefly to Erin Crocker who led five laps before Blount regained the lead.
Blount led the race's final 27 laps en route to capturing the win with Crocker
just 1.175 seconds behind at the stripe. Joey Miller finished in third with
Frank Kimmel coming from his 19th place starting position to finish
fourth.
Justin Allgaier, son of Hoosier Tire Midwest Distributor owners Mike and
Dorothy Allgaier, finished in fifth place. Kyle Krisiloff captured the sixth
position with Brian Keselowski, Walt Brannen, Bobby Gerhart and Ken Weaver
rounding out the top ten and completing the list of lead-lap finishers. The
race was slowed five times for caution periods for a total of 36 laps.
Todd Bowsher earned the Hoosier Tire Hard Charger Award for advancing the
most positions. Bowsher started 28th en route to finishing 13th.
Despite winning the last two races, Chad Blount remains in third place in
the drivers standings with 2670 points with Frank Kimmel still atop the
standings with 2925 points. Joey Miller is in second place with 2755 points.
The ARCA RE/MAX Series will cross the halfway mark of its 23-race season
this Saturday, July 16, at Berlin (MI) Raceway. The "Request/Sara Lee 200"
already has 48 drivers entered.
TIRES: Hoosier 12.0/28.0-15 5115 (left side) and
12.0/28.0-15 5635 (right side) radial tires were used with one inch of stagger.
The challenging ARCA RE/MAX Series uses both bias-ply and radial tires while
competing on both dirt and asphalt tracks.
All ARCA Series events are serviced out of Hoosier headquarters
in Lakeville, IN under the direction of ARCA RE/MAX Series Track Service
Manager Doug Barnes. Assisting Barnes at the Kentucky event were Rick Tostevin,
Dave Wroblewski, Chad Wright, Larry Merrill, Chris Grossman, Jim Bartholomew
and Mike Haenes.
For complete race results and more information about the ARCA
RE/MAX Series visit their website at www.arcaracing.com.
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SPARTA,
KY (July 8, 2005) -- Walkerton, Indiana's Chad Blount won his second
consecutive ARCA RE/MAX Series event of the season, and fourth overall, at
Kentucky Speedway on Friday night. Blount, who also won the series' second and
third races of the season, now takes over the series lead in wins ahead of
current points leader and defending series champion Frank Kimmel. The other
story of the event was Erin Crocker. The Evernham Motorsports developmental
driver earned the pole for the "WLWT Channel 5-150" with the fastest
lap in qualifying. Crocker topped a stout 48-car field circling the 1.5-mile
tri-oval in 31.084 seconds (173.723 mph) while finishing runner-up to Blount in
the 100-lap race. It was just the second time in history that a female has
finished second in an ARCA RE/MAX Series event. Back in 1999, Shawna Robinson
finished second at Daytona. Hoosier Racing Tire Corp. has been the exclusive
tire provider to the ARCA RE/MAX Series for the past decade. Crocker also made
history last year in the World of Outlaws Sprint Car Series when she became the
first female to win a series race. Ironically, Crocker took the win riding on
Hoosier sprint tires.