Patrick Sheltra Electrifies ARCA Field With Thrilling Runner-Up Effort At 'Dega

Patrick Sheltra Electrifies ARCA  Field  
With Thrilling Runner-Up Effort At  Talladega  
TALLADEGA,  Alabama (April 23, 2010) - - Patrick  Sheltra in the No. 60 
Buffalo Wings & Rings Dodge Charger electrified the  ARCA field in Friday’s 
Talladega ARCA 250 after recovering from damage in the  “big one�?? to finish 
second at Talladega (Ala.) Superspeedway.   
Sheltra,  pulling double this weekend by competing in both the ARCA Racing 
Series and  NASCAR Nationwide Series events at the 2.66-mile superspeedway 
had high hopes  for his fourth career start at Talladega, especially after 
posting a stout fifth  place run in the ARCA season-opener at Daytona (Fla.) 
International Speedway.   
After  a solid practice, Sheltra qualified his Grace Sheltra-owned machine  
15th on Thursday afternoon setting up for what he knew would be an  
exciting ARCA Racing Series event.  
From  the drop of the green flag, Sheltra despite having hiccups with his 
radio was  able to maneuver from his starting position and draft his way into 
the top-10  where he stayed until the caution waived on lap 17. During the 
yellow, crew  chief Jon Wolfe brought his driver to pit road for fuel, two 
right side tires  and a replacement radio.  
Before  returning to green flag conditions, the Indiantown, Florida native 
radioed to  his crew “it’s time to go racing boys!�?? On the restart, Sheltra 
began  negotiating his Buffalo Wings & Rings Racing entry though the stout 
ARCA  field and found himself in the hunt when the “big one�?? unraveled on 
lap 50 when  a multitude of machines got together with the green and orange 
Dodge Charger  nearly avoiding the incident, but could not miss the wildly 
spinning No. 66  entry of Mark Thompson.  
Under  the lengthy yellow, Sheltra brought his machine to the attention of 
his crew  where they diligently made the repairs to his automobile before 
sending him back  into competition. For a while, it was thought that Sheltra’s 
streak of  consecutive top-10 finishes in ARCA competition would be put to 
rest as the No.  60 had lost the lead draft and was in jeopardy of losing 
his lead lap status  when the yellow flag waived again inside the final 20 
circuits for debris.   
Knowing  that they were know back in the game, the Mooresville, North 
Carolina operation  was prepared to settle and hover inside the top-10 but their 
23-year old hero  had other intentions. Another caution inside the final 12 
laps of the event  would put the best of the ARCA bunch into a 10-lap 
shootout with Sheltra quickly  and vibrantly on the move.  
Throwing  his beaten and bruised No. 60 machine to the outside line of the 
track worked as  he began catching the lead pack and continuously inched up 
the leader board with  the laps dwindling down. With three laps remaining, 
Sheltra had climbed into the  fifth position but he wasn’t done yet. Despite 
having a machine that looked like  that it just completed 200 laps at the 
physically demanding short track of Salem  (Ind.) Speedway, the ARCA pro 
hammered down and attached itself to the rear of  the No. 22 of Dakoda Armstrong. 
 
Coming  to the white flag, Sheltra was prepared to keep the two Dodges 
together and hope  to make a move on leaders Grant Enfinger, Steve Arpin and Tom 
Hessert. The  opportunity came as the cars entered the backstretch on the 
white flag lap  Sheltra gave the No. 22 of Armstrong a shove which ejected 
the two machines from  the lead group which allowed a jumbled up field behind 
them to fend for  themselves. Despite two spinning cars on the racetrack in 
turns three and four,  Sheltra tried making one last attempt on his Chrysler 
nameplate teammate but ran  out of time and crossed the start finish line 
second, notching his best finish  of the 2010 ARCA Racing Series season.  
“Man,  I don’t know what to say,�?? sound Sheltra after the race. “We never 
gave up. I  didn’t think we were going to have a good finish there for a 
while but  everything came together for us near the end, we pushed Dakoda 
(Armstrong) to  the win and brought our Buffalo Wings & Rings Dodge home in 
second. We’re  thrilled.�??  
When  asked of his late race surge, Sheltra said, “I just went to the top 
and  everything worked out. Jason (Jarrett, spotter) did an incredible job 
for me. He  is really good about keeping me informed of everything that was 
going on. I  still cannot believe that with all the damage we had, we were 
able to come home  in second. I just can’t say enough about Jon (Wolfe, crew 
chief) and this  Sheltra Motorsports team. I want to thank Buffalo Wings & 
Rings, Ferguson  Pipe, CAM 2 Blue Blood Racing Oil, just everyone that makes 
this possible. We’re  having one heck of a season.�?? 
Indeed,  Sheltra is enjoying a stellar 2010 season. In five races this 
season, Sheltra is  the only ARCA pilot to have notched five consecutive top-10 
finishes this year.  Sheltra started off the year with a fifth place run at 
Daytona, a  10th on the wet and slippery Palm Beach (Fla.) International 
Raceway,  a fourth at Salem (Ind.) Speedway, a seventh last Friday night at 
Texas Motor  Speedway and posted his 13th career top-five at Talladega Friday.  
Previously, Sheltra’s best effort at Talladega came in 2008 where he 
finished  fifth.  
With  the finish, Sheltra closes the ARCA Racing Series championship point’
s gap and  now sits just 30 markers from first now held by close friend 
Justin Marks. 10  markers separate the avid hunter from second locked by Arpin.  
 
Earlier  Friday morning, Sheltra qualified his No. 09 RAB Racing Ford 
Fusion  22nd for Saturday’s NASCAR Nationwide Series Aaron’s 312. A career  best 
qualifying effort on the Nationwide side plus the momentum of the ARCA  
finish gives the rising star extra momentum towards his first Nationwide start  
at ‘Dega. The eighth race of the 2010 NASCAR Nationwide Series is scheduled 
for  Saturday, April 24 with live coverage on ABC beginning at 2:00 p.m. 
local.  Sheltra will also compete in his first stock car event in a Ford 
Fusion for the  Concord-based RAB Racing with Brack Maggard operation.  
Next  up for the ARCA Racing Series is the first of two trips to Toledo 
(Oh.) Speedway  for the running of the Menards 200 by Federated Car Care set 
for Sunday, May 23.  Sheltra will make his seventh career start at the 
half-mile short track.   
Exiting  Talladega, Sheltra has 72 ARCA Racing Series presented by RE/MAX 
and Menards  starts to his credit with one career victory at Salem Speedway 
(April 2009).  During his ARCA tenure, Sheltra has accumulated 13 top-fives 
and posted 27  top-10 finishes. A third place qualifying effort at Rockingham 
Speedway (April  2009) is Sheltra’s best time trials efforts to date. He 
has controlled the ARCA  field six times for 148 laps. 
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Sheltra  Motorsports (_sheltramotorsports.com_ 
(http://www.sheltramotorsports.com/) ) is a three-tier Motorsports  operation consisting of dirt and 
asphalt competition. Patrick Sheltra, a 23-year  old native of Indiantown, 
Florida competes in the UMP and WoO (Dirt) Series;  while also running a full 
schedule in the ARCA Racing Series presented by RE/MAX  and Menards (No. 60) 
and a limited schedule in the NASCAR Nationwide Series.  Sheltra Motorsports 
ownership is combined of Richard, Grace and Patrick Sheltra.  The team is 
headquartered in Indiantown, Florida with additional operations in  Richmond, 
Indiana and Mooresville, North Carolina.  
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