ARCA RE/MAX Factsheet, Nashville Superspeedway
NASHVILLE'S NEXT FOR ARCA RE/MAX SERIES; 54 Stout Entries On The Way....... This Saturday afternoon's Waste Management 200 will be the 8th appearance of the ARCA RE/MAX Series at Nashville Superspeedway since its debut there in 2001. More than 50 drivers from 18 states and Canada are currently entered. The event is LIVE on SPEED Channel at 2 pm eastern. For continually updated entry lists, news, notes & more www.arcaracing.com; and thanks for your interest........ NASHVILLE FACTSHEET PLUS....... RACE: Waste Management 200, 8-14-04 TRACK: Nashville Superspeedway, 1.33-mile concrete oval LOCATION: Nashville, TN DISTANCE: 151 laps, 200 miles SANCTION: ARCA SERIES: Event #16 of the 2004 ARCA RE/MAX Series PR/MEDIA: Sean Dozier/Tammy Brewington (615) 547-7500 SCHEDULE: Fri, Aug 13: Practice 1:35-3:30pm; Pork Pole Qualifying (2 laps) following Truck Qualifying Sat, Aug 14: Waste Management 200 at 1 pm CST POSTED AWARDS: $212,614 in prize, point and contingency money. ARCA OFFICIAL COMPANIES: RE/MAX International Inc, Damon Motorcoach, Featherlite Trailers, Hoosier Racing Tire, Racing Electronics, Sunoco Race Fuels. ARCA OFFICIAL PRODUCTS: Amkus Rescue Tools, Bennigan's, 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 Racing Equipment, Stoner Car Care Products, 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 Enterprises, Tex Racing, Thermo-Tec Header Wrap, Tilton Engineering, Vertigo Productions, Victor-Reinz Gaskets, Wallace Race Car Lettering. RECORDS: Qualifying - Ryan Hemphill, 29.738 (161.369 mph), 2004. Race - Frank Kimmel (118.795 mph) 2001. TELEVISION: LIVE on SPEED Channel from 2-4 pm Eastern. NASHVILLE RACE WINNERS: Frank Kimmel 3, Kyle Busch 1, Blake Feese 1, Mario Gosselin 1, Ken Schrader 1. NASHVILLE PORK POLE WINNERS: Frank Kimmel 5, Kyle Busch 1, Ryan Hemphill 1. NOTES OF INTEREST: The Waste Management 200 will be the 8th appearance of the ARCA RE/MAX Series at Nashville Superspeedway since its debut there in 2001. From Nashville, the series steers for the Springfield IL mile-dirt the following weekend. More than 50 drivers from 18 states and Canada are currently entered for Nashville including 5-time series champion and current point leader Frank Kimmel. Kimmel's victory last week at Lake Erie tied him for second (54) with Jack Bowsher in all-time series wins. Kimmel is also only 1 superspeedway pole away from tying Tim Steele's all-time superspeedway pole mark of 18. In 7 previous Nashville starts, Kimmel has won 5 Pork Poles. Kimmel also needs to lead just 37 superspeedway laps to tie Steele's all-time superspeedway lap-leader mark of 2,308. However, red-hot rookie Ryan Hemphill, with 6 superspeedway wins this year, 5 Pork Pole awards and 514 laps-led, has taken a big bite out of Kimmel's '04 superspeedway pie. Hemphill led 73 of 113 laps at Nashville in April, and was leading inside of 10 laps to go when he got tangled up with a lapped car. 18-year-old Kyle Krisiloff, on the Hendrick Motorsports driver development program, will make his superspeedway debut at Nashville in the ditech.com Chevrolet. Krisiloff, after leading 38 laps last weekend on the Lake Erie short-track, is coming off a 9th place finish there in his series debut. 19-year-old Joey Miller, in a Matt Hagans Dodge, is another rookie hoping to turn heads at Nashville. Miller was quickest in Nashville open testing a few weeks back. Rookie Chris Moore will be making his return to RE/MAX Series competition at Nashville. Moore made 3 series starts in 2002 and never finished out of the top-5. TJ Bell, coming off another top-5 finish at Lake Erie, is locked in a tight battle for Rookie of the Year with AJ Fike. Bell leads Fike by just 14 points in the battle for ROY headed to Nashville. Former Indy 500 starter and Nashville IRL Infiniti Pro winner Cory Witherill will make his ARCA RE/MAX Series/stock car debut at Nashville. Witherill is a full-blooded Navajo Native American. 2-time Daytona ARCA 200 winner Bobby Gerhart will make his first attempt at Nashville. Defending race winner Mario Gosselin has filed an entry. Gosselin and Kimmel are the only former Nashville winners entered. Sons of former champions entered include Jason Jarrett whose father Dale Jarrett won the '99 Nextel Cup championship, Todd Bowsher whose father Jack Bowsher won ARCA titles in '63, '64 & '65 and Billy Venturini whose father Bill Venturini earned ARCA championships in '87 & '91. CONTACT: Don Radebaugh ARCA PR/Media Director office (734) 847-6726 cell (419) 450-0611