 SPRINGFIELD,
IL (August 17, 2008) -- Defending ARCA RE/MAX Series champion Frank Kimmel
ended a nearly year-long winless streak on Sunday when he won the 46th annual Allen
Crowe 100 at the Illinois State Fairgrounds. It was Kimmel's first win
since starting his own (#44) race team after winning nine championships driving
the #46 car. The Clarksville, IN driver dominated the event leading 83 of 102
race laps en route to the win.
Kimmel started off the weekend by winning the pole for the event after
setting a new track record in qualifying. Kimmel, one of 38 qualifiers, demolished
the old record (33.402 seconds, 107.778 mph) set by Damon Lusk in 2006. Kimmel
circled the 1-mile clay oval in 32.878 seconds (109.496 mph). It was also his
first pole award of the 2008 season.
The race featured five leaders among four different drivers. Leaders during
the event included; Ron Cox, 1-12 (12 laps), Dexter Bean 13-15 (3 laps), Frank
Kimmel 16-26, 31-102 (83 laps) and Doug Keller 27-30 (4 laps).
In the end, it was Kimmel winning by .921 seconds over Ricky Stenhouse, Jr.
Stenhouse was followed to the line by Brian Tyler, Matt Carter and Tyler Malsam.
Kimmel appears to have healed quite well from his injuries at Pocono, August
2, which caused him to get out of his car during last week's race at Nashville.
His nephew, Will Kimmel, relieved the 9-time champion en route to a 19th place
finish.
Justin Allgaier finished in sixth place followed by Tom Hessert III, Scott
Speed, Springfield's own Kelly Kovski and Doug Keller to round out the top ten.
The race was slowed six times for cautions for a total of 32 laps.
With his runner-up finish Ricky Stenhouse, Jr. (3605) moved into second
place in the driver rankings behind Scott Speed (3715), while Matt Carter falls
from second to third (3595) in the standings. Justin Allgaier (3500) remains in
fourth place while Frank Kimmel (3460) remains in fifth.
All ARCA RE/MAX Series events are serviced out of Hoosier headquarters
located in Lakeville, IN.
The ARCA RE/MAX Series takes a some time off before returning to action on
Labor Day where the series will be competing on the 1-mile clay oval at the
Duquion State Fairgrounds in Illinois.
For complete race results and more information about the ARCA RE/MAX Series
visit www.arcaracing.com.
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