ARCA RE/MAX Talladega Factsheet

TALLADEGA FACTSHEET    


RACE:                          Food World 300, 10-2-04

TRACK:                        Talladega Superspeedway, 2.66 mile paved oval

LOCATION:                 Talladega, Alabama

DISTANCE:                  300 miles (113 laps)

SANCTION:                 ARCA

SERIES:                       Event #22 of the 2004 ARCA RE/MAX Series

PROMOTER:                International Speedway Corporation (ISC)

PR CONTACTS:            Kristi King (256) 761-4705, Lisa Battles (256) 315-4556                                 

SCHEDULE:                 Wed, Sept 29:                      Registration opens 9 am; Garage opens 10 am

                                    Thur, Sept 30:                      Practice 9-10 am & 10:30-noon; Pork Pole Qualifying 2:30 pm (2 laps)

                                    Fri, Oct 1:              Final practice 12:30 - 1:30 pm   

                                    Sat, Oct 2:              Food World 300 at 1 pm (all times local)



POSTED AWARDS:            $305,814 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.

 

TV:                   LIVE on PEE Channel at 2 pm ET (1 pm local). 

RADIO:            WTDR-FM/Thunder 92.7 (LIVE) plus pole day coverage, practice & happy hour.

INTERNET:            Continual LIVE coverage at thunder927.com

 

RACE WINNERS AT TALLADEGA SINCE 1969 (41 events):  Grant Adcox 5, Davey Allison 4, Tim Steele 4, Charlie Glotzbach 3, Red Farmer 2, Jimmy Horton 2, Tracy Leslie 2, Ramo Stott 2, Jim Vandiver 2. Tied with 1 each are Bobby Gerhart, Johnny Halford, Billie Harvey, Bruce Hill, Ron Hutcherson, David Keith, Mark Martin, Paul Menard, Jeff Purvis, Rick Roland, Sandy Satullo, Keith Segars, Bob Strait, Jim Vaughan and Mike Wallace. 



NOTES OF INTEREST:  The Food World 300, the 42nd ARCA RE/MAX Series event at Talladega since 1969, is the longest RE/MAX Series race on the schedule at 300 miles. In addition, the $305,814 in posted awards for the event is a record ARCA RE/MAX Series purse. In the 41 races at Talladega, 17 have been won from the pole. Among the teams entered this year, only Bobby Gerhart is a former Talladega winner. Series veteran Frank Kimmel has already locked up the 2004 championship representing a record-tying 6th series title. Only the late Iggy Katona has 6 titles, although no driver other than Kimmel has 5 consecutive series championships. Kimmel, who has never won on a restrictor plate track, is the all-time series superspeedway lap leader with 2,336 laps-led in 63 events. A healthy crop of Cup teams have entered including Hendrick Motorsports (Boston Reid and Blake Feese), Ganassi Racing (Reed Sorenson), BAM Racing (Germany's Klaus Graf) and even an entry from Bill Elliott Motorsports with rookie driver Ray Cook. The outcome of the Food World 300 will determine this year's Bill France Triple Crown winner. The prestigious award, representative of ARCA's extremely diverse schedule, is an accumulation of points from 3 very different tracks - Talladega, the Salem Speedway short-track and the Springfield Illinois mile-dirt. Jason Jarrett currently leads Norm Benning by only 10 points headed into the Talladega finale. Jarrett is also the defending Bill France Triple Crown champion. Talladega is one of two venues for the ARCA RE/MAX Series that mandates the use of carburetor restrictor plates - the other being Daytona Int'l Speedway.  




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