ARCA RE/MAX Starting Grid, Kentucky Speedway

 

SPARTA KY (5-9-03)  Frank Kimmel, with a speed of 168.856 mph, won the Old Milwaukee Pole for The Channel 5-205 Friday afternoon at Kentucky Speedway. It was Kimmel's 29th career ARCA RE/MAX Series pole award overall and 13th on a superspeedway.

 

"This is kind of like my home track and we expect to do real well when we come here," said Kimmel. "We put a lot of pressure on ourselves. We knew that there was a lot of strong competition coming for this race. Kyle (Busch) and the Hendrick guys kicked our butt at Nashville and we knew that we had to come back and do everything that we could."

 

Brownsburg, Indiana driver Matt Hagans, in the Eagle Creek Aviation Dodge, posted his career-best RE/MAX Series qualifying run after winning the outside pole with a speed of 166.200 mph.

 

Brent Sherman, of N. Barrington, Illinois, qualified a career-best third in the Serta Mattress-Hickory Farms Ford with Kyle Busch in the Ditech.com Chevrolet in fourth. Seventeen-year-old Shelby Howard, in the Mack Trucks-Beck Dodge, completed the top-five qualifiers.

 

Saturday's ARCA RE/MAX Series Channel 5-205 at Kentucky Speedway will air live on SPEED Channel from 8 pm to 10 pm eastern.



       2003 ARCA RE/MAX SERIES EVENT #6   
      Kentucky Speedway, Sparta KY, 5-10-03   
      Official Starting Grid, The Channel 5-205   
          
      STR NO DRIVER/RESIDENCE TEAM & CAR TIME SPEED 
      1 46 Frank Kimmel/Jeffersonville IN Advance Auto Parts-Pork Ford 31.980 168.856 
      2 77 Matt Hagans/Brownsburg IN Eagle Creek Aviation-First Wing Mngmnt Dodge 32.491 166.200 
      3 44 Brent Sherman/N Barrington IL Serta Mattress-Hickory Farms Ford 32.567 165.812 
      4 87 Kyle Busch/Las Vegas NV Ditech.com Chevrolet 32.629 165.497 
      5 64 Shelby Howard/Greenwood IN Mack Trucks-Beck Dodge 32.747 164.901 
      6 67 Jason Jarrett/Hickory NC Damon RV-Biomet Chevrolet 32.796 164.654 
      7 75 Deborah Renshaw/Bowling Green KY Bob Schacht Motorsports Ford 32.892 164.174 
      8 59 Mark Gibson/Winder GA Williams Brothers Lumber Chevrolet 33.304 162.143 
      9 17 AJ Henriksen/Algonquin IL Fastenal-Engineered Components Ford 33.346 161.938 
      10 56 Michael Simko/Clarkston MI Mound Steel-Michigan Steel Erectors Pontiac 33.426 161.551 
      11 27 Chase Montgomery/Mt. Juliet TN Montgomery-Alice Cooper Motorsports Chevy 33.474 161.319 
      12 91 Christi Passmore/Pryor OK Gap Roofing-Royal Trading Ford 33.679 160.337 
      13 08 Bill Eversole/Chelsea MI Think Pink Energy Drink Chevrolet 33.814 159.697 
      14 51 Joe Cooksey/Centralia IL Vital Communications Chevrolet 33.823 159.655 
      15 5 Mike Burg/Cincinnati OH The Channel 5-Tempstar Chevrolet 33.834 159.603 
      16 25 Billy Venturini/Chicago IL Loctite Chevrolet 33.976 158.936 
      17 23 Ron Cox/Soddy Daisy TN Accu-MedSupply.com Chevrolet 34.065 158.520 
      18 37 Brett Oakley/Middletown OH Mar Flex-Valvoline-Pepsi Chevrolet 34.268 157.581 
      19 47 Mike Langston/Marietta GA Jani King-3M Ford 34.699 155.624 
      20 38 Greg Sarff/Columbus OH Quaker Steak & Lube Ford 34.713 155.561 
      21 1 Andy Belmont/Penndel PA Verizon 1-800-USE-THE-VZ Ford 34.740 155.440 
      22 65 Vern Slagh/Zeeland MI DJ's One Stop-Van Eck Diesel Dodge 34.757 155.364 
      23 34 Darrell Basham/Henryville IN Ideal Paint & Wallpaper Chevrolet 34.787 155.230 
      24 8 Jamie Mosley/London KY American Mortgage Lenders Pontiac 34.824 155.065 
      25 06 Kim Crosby/Slidell LA Golden Flake-ICCI Chevrolet 34.867 154.874 
      26 19 Keith Murt/Paducah KY Murtco Chevrolet 35.003 154.272 
      27 21 Todd Bowsher/Springfield OH GFS Marketplace Ford 35.233 153.265 
      28 6 Brian Conz/Livonia MI Precision Cutter Chevrolet 35.240 153.235 
      29 33 Darrel Krentz/Sparks NV Krentz Racing Ford 35.242 153.226 
      30 2 Jerry Middleton/Richmond IN Servpro of Indiana & Ohio Chevrolet 35.523 152.014 
      31 26 Brad Smith/Dearborn MI Phoenix Contractors-SciCom Center Chevy 35.688 151.311 
      32 7 Randy VanZant/Brookville OH Devers Truck Bodies-Black Tie Detailing Pontiac 35.722 151.167 
      33 84 Norm Benning/Pittsburgh PA Benning Motorsports Chevrolet 35.798 150.846 
      34 28 Mike Buckley/Ann Arbor MI Phoenix Contractors-ETSSolutions Chevrolet 35.825 150.733 
      35 24 Chuck Weber/Mesquite TX Cardinal Tool Company Chevrolet Provisional 
      36 48 Carl McCormick/Jacksonville FL UnfinishedFurnitureDirect.com Ford Provisional 
      37 49 Dan Shaver/Charlotte NC Petro Express Pontiac Provisional 
      38 00 Mike Koch/Mountain Home AR Nealco Chevrolet Provisional