ARCA RE/MAX Daytona Factsheet

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DAYTONA FACTSHEET
RACE:                          41st Annual Advance Discount Auto Parts 200, Feb 7, 2004

TRACK:                        Daytona Int'l Speedway, 2.5-mile paved oval

LOCATION:                 Daytona Beach, Florida

DISTANCE:                  200 miles (80 laps)

SANCTION:                 ARCA

SERIES:                       Event #1 of the 2004 ARCA RE/MAX Series

PROMOTER:                International Speedway Corporation (ISC)

SCHEDULE:                 Tues, Feb 3 - Registration, technical inspection

                                    Wed, Feb 4 - Practice (1:30-2:25 & 4-5)

                                    Thur, Feb 5 - Pork Pole Award Qualifying (1:30, 2 laps, all positions)

                                    Fri, Feb 6 - Final Practice (5:10-6:20)

                                    Sat, Feb 7 - 41st Advance Discount Auto Parts 200 at 4 PM Eastern



POSTED AWARDS:            $303,109 in prize, point and contingency money.

 

ARCA OFFICIAL COMPANIES: RE/MAX International Inc, Damon Motorcoach, Featherlite Trailers, Hoosier Racing Tires, Racing Electronics, Sunoco Race Fuels.

 

ARCA OFFICIAL PRODUCTS: Amkus Rescue Tools, Cloyes Gear & Products, Cookies BarBQ Sauce, Earl's Performance Products, Fast Track High Performance Driving School, Flowmaster Mufflers, Gladiator GarageWorks, Harris Torches & Regulators, Holley HP Carbs, K&N Air Filters, K&N Oil Filters, Kluhsman Racing Products, Landrum Spring Service, Lincoln Electric Welders, Magnum Police Equipment, Motive Gear, National Pork Board, RJS Uniforms, S-W Scales by Intercomp, University of Northwestern Ohio.

 

PARTICIPATING COMPANIES: ATI Dampers, Auto Meter Instruments, Berryman Products, Bilstein Shocks, Blake Carburetors, BSR Racing Products, CamAir Tire Management Systems, Clevite Engine Parts, Cometic Gaskets, CV Products, Dayco Belts & Hoses, Dodge Motorsports, Edelbrock, Endura-Tech Valve Springs, Ford Motor Company, Gatorade, G-Force Racing Gear, Hawk Brake, Hedman Hedders, Hoosier Racing Tires, Hutcherson-Pagan, Impact Racing, Jacobs Electronics, JE Pistons, Joyce Julius & Associates, JR's Garage, KoolMat, LaCross Engine Development, Leading Edge Race Cars, MSD Ignition, Mechanix Wear, Nelson Specialties, Ohlins Shocks, Penske Racing Shocks, Perfect Circle Piston Rings, Performance Drive Train Inc., Quarter Master, Reed Cams, Rhyne Racing Engines, RJS Racing Equipment, Shaver Motorsports Engines, Speed51.com, Spraker Racing Products, Tex Racing, Thermo-Tec Header Wrap, Tilton Engineering, Vertigo Productions, Victor-Reinz Gaskets, Wallace Race Car Lettering.

 

TELEVISION:             SPEED Channel (LIVE) 4 pm. Re-airs same-night at 1 AM. All Times Eastern.

RADIO: WNDB (LIVE) 1150 AM or at wndb.com (complete pre-race and race coverage). 

RADIO: Bench Racing With Andy Belmont LIVE on WNDB 1150 AM from Daytona USA at 7 PM Feb 4, 5 & 6.

 

RECORDS:             Qualifying, Bill Venturini, 1987, 200.209 mph (44.953); Race, Lennie Pond, 1976, 153.224 mph

 

RACE WINNERS AT DAYTONA SINCE 1964 (40 events): 3 - Iggy Katona; 2 each - Bobby Gerhart, Andy Hampton, Ben Hess, Andy Hillenburg, Jimmy Horton, Jeff Purvis; 1 each - Grant Adcox, Charlie Blanton, Jack Bowsher, Woody Fisher, Mickey Gibbs, Ferrel Harris, Ron Hutcherson, Kenny Irwin, Ralph Jones, David Keith, Ralph Latham, Chase Montgomery, Ryan Newman, Benny Parsons, Kyle Petty, Lennie Pond, John Rezek, Tim Richmond, Joe Ruttman, Jim Sauter, Glenn Sears, Nelson Stacy, Ramo Stott, Mike Wallace, Rick Wilson 1.

NOTES OF INTEREST:  With approximately 60 teams entered for the 41st running of the Daytona ARCA 200 recognized this year as the Advance Discount Auto Parts 200, this year's Daytona ARCA classic, with a 4 pm Saturday start-time, will serve as a preamble for Saturday night's Nextel Cup Bud Shootout. Currently, drivers representing 20 states are entered. Of the drivers entered, only Andy Hillenburg and Bobby Gerhart are former Daytona ARCA 200 winners although Greg Sacks, entered in a Bobby Jones Racing Dodge, won a 400-mile race at Daytona in the Nextel Cup Series in 1985. Both Hillenburg and Gerhart are 2-time Daytona ARCA 200 winners (Hillenburg in '95 & '97/Gerhart in '99 & '02). Iggy Katona is the only 3-time Daytona ARCA winner. Frank Kimmel and Hillenburg are the only former series champions entered. Kimmel, 3rd on the all-time win-list with 50 career series victories, has never won at Daytona. Kimmel's career-best finishes at Daytona are 3rd in '01 & '02. Only 6 drivers have won from the pole in the Daytona ARCA 200: Benny Parsons '69, Andy Hampton '72, Iggy Katona '74, Woody Fisher '77, Jeff Purvis '93 and Hillenburg '97. No driver has repeat wins in consecutive years.



CONTACT: Don Radebaugh, ARCA PR/Media

Cell (419) 450-0611