ARCA RE/MAX release, Kentucky

FRANK KIMMEL PERFECT IN KENTUCKY
For Immediate Release (7-13-01)

SPARTA KY, by Don Radebaugh - ARCA RE/MAX Series point leader Frank
Kimmel pulled off the perfect night Friday under the lights at Kentucky
Speedway. The Jeffersonville, Indiana driver won the Old Milwaukee Pole,
led the most laps, and in the end, checked out on the competition to win
the Blue Grass Quality Meats 200. It was Kimmel’s eighth career RE/MAX
Series superspeedway victory and 28th triumph overall moving the
two-time champ into sixth on the all-time win list ahead of Ramo Stott
and behind Nelson Stacy who has 31.

“What can I say; it was just a great night for the Advance Auto
Parts-Pork team,” Kimmel said in victory lane. “We burned off right side
tires early in the race and fell way back. I guess I was just driving a
little too aggressively there at the start, but we settled it down, got
back on track, and won the thing. Overall, the car was perfect all week
and it really showed tonight. A lot of that’s my brother and crew chief
Bill, and the whole crew; they work so hard on this deal. They’re just
incredible. We always consider this place our hometown superspeedway; we
have a lot of great support here from fans, family and friends, so a win
here is even more special.”

Kimmel also collected the National Pork Producers Pole-Win Bonus for
winning from the pole adding $3,500 to his winner’s pay bringing his
total for the night to a healthy $26,695.

At the checkered flag, Kimmel finished nearly four seconds ahead of his
nearest rival John Metcalf who steered the RE/MAX Int’l Chevrolet to a
career-best second place finish in only his fourth start.
Second-generation drivers’ Billy Venturini and Todd Bowsher also posted
career-best finishes of third and fourth respectively with outside
polesitter and 17-year-old rookie Chase Montgomery trailing in fifth,
also a career-best finish. Venturini, in his father Bill Venturini’s
DANA-Jeff Wyler Chevrolet, charged from the 13th starting position and
led five laps while Bowsher, in his father Jack Bowsher’s Ford, hustled
from the 16th starting spot to finish on the lead lap. As a result,
Bowsher, coming off a seventh place finish at Watkins Glen, was awarded
the ARCA Highest Finishing Rookie honors for the fifth consecutive week.

Kimmel led 73 laps in the 134-lap, 200-mile race while Montgomery was
next in the laps-led category with 42. However, Montgomery ran out of
gas leading the event during a long green-flag run and went a lap down
eliminating any chance for the win. Former NFL head coach Jerry
Glanville was stout all night long and led 13 laps before a turn-two
tangle with local Walton, Kentucky favorite Willie Green eliminated both
cars from the race. Glanville and Green, who were racing for fourth at
the time, touched in turn two and slid backwards into the wall. Both
machines were badly damaged and through for the night although neither
driver was injured.

Mooresville, North Carolina driver AJ Henriksen finished a respectable
sixth in the Fastenal-Engineered Components Ford while Memphis winner
Billy Bigley finished seventh in the Spears Manufacturing Pontiac.
Cincinnati, Ohio’s Jeep Pflum, in the Rite Track Racing Chevrolet, raced
home in eighth ahead of Kalamazoo, Michigan driver Larry Hollenbeck in
ninth in the SWAT Fitness Club Ford. Columbus, Ohio driver Greg Sarff,
in the Cross Country Inn Ford, chalked up his career-best RE/MAX Series
finish in tenth.

In addition, Bowsher won the Thermo-Tec Cool Drive Award as well as the
Hawk Best Brake of the Race honors while Montgomery picked up the
Loctite Halfway Leader Award. Savannah, Georgia driver Robbie Cowart won
the Hoosier Tire Hard Charger Award for advancing the most positions,
from 33rd to 12th in the final running order while Green, as a
consolation, was awarded the Landrum Spring Hard Luck Award. Kimmel also
won the Quarter Master Comin Thru in the Clutch Award.

CURRENT POINTS: 1) Frank Kimmel 3465, 2) Tim Steele 2875, 3) Andy
Belmont 2795, 4) Jason Jarrett 2580, 5) Ron Cox 2560, 6) Todd Bowsher
2375, 7) Norm Benning 2320, 8) Chuck Weber 2280, 9) Donny Morelock 2180,
10) Billy Venturini 1555.

CONTACT: ARCA PR, Don Radebaugh (734) 847-6726 or arcaracing.com