ARCA Kentucky Factsheet
28 June 2000
KENTUCKY SPEEDWAY FACTSHEET
RACE: KENTUCKY 150, 7-2-00
TRACK: Kentucky Speedway, 1.5-mile paved oval
LOCATION: Sparta, Kentucky
DISTANCE: 150 miles (100 laps)
SANCTION: Automobile Racing Club of America (ARCA)
SERIES: Event #11 of the 2000 ARCA Bondo/Mar-Hyde Series
PROMOTER: Jerry Carroll
SCHEDULE: Fri. June 30 Practice, 2 – 5 PM
Sat. July 1 Talladega Pole Award Qualifying, 4 PM (1-30)
Sun. July 2 Kentucky 150 at 7:30 PM
POSTED AWARDS: $148,481 in prize, point and contingency money.
ARCA OFFICIAL COMPANIES: Bondo Body Filler, Mar-Hyde Paints, Auto Value
Parts Stores, Coachmen RV, Featherlite Trailers, Hoosier Racing Tires,
Racing Electronics, 76 Racing Gas.
ARCA OFFICIAL PRODUCTS: Amkus Rescue Tools, Cloyes Gear & Products,
Cornwell Quality Tools, Earl's Performance Products, Fastlane Footwear,
Fast Track High Performance Driving School, Firefox Industries,
Flowmaster Mufflers, Harris Torches & Regulators, Hawk Brake, K&N
Filters, K&N Oil Filters, Landrum Spring Service, Lincoln Electric
Welders, Motive Gear, QuicShine 99, Racing Champions Diecast Cars, RJS
Uniforms, Safe Trac, SpeedVue Racing Tearoffs, S-W Scales by Intercomp.
PARTICIPATING COMPANIES: A&A Manufacturing, ATI Dampers, Auto Meter
Instruments, Bilstein Shocks, BSR Racing Products, Carrera Shocks,
Clevite Engine Parts, CV Products, Dayco Belts & Hoses, Edelbrock, Ford
Motor Co., Gatorade, Hedman Hedders, Holley HP Carbs, Hoosier Tire
Midwest, Hutcherson-Pagan, JE Pistons, Loctite Corporation, Maurtco
Powder Coating, MSD Ignition, Nelson Specialties, Oceans Resorts, Ohlins
Shocks, Penske Racing Shocks, Prestone Antifreeze, Pro Cylinder Heads,
Pro Shocks, Quarter Master, Raceline Precision Products, Racing Radios,
Reed Cams & Carburetors, Rhyne Racing Engines, Ringers Resources, RJS
Racing Equipment, 76 Performance Products, Simpson Race Products,
Sportec Helmet Mugs, Talladega Superspeedway, Thermo-Tec Header Wrap,
Victor-Reinz Gaskets, Wallace Race Car Lettering, Wiseco Pistons.
TELEVISION: SPEEDVISION, tape delay
RECORDS: None yet established
NOTES OF INTEREST: The inaugural Kentucky 150 will mark the first
appearance of the ARCA Bondo/Mar-Hyde Series in the state of Kentucky
since 1996 when Bobby Bowsher won at the Louisville Motor Speedway.
Notable entrants include 3-time ARCA champion Tim Steele. Steele is the
all-time ARCA superspeedway winner with 21 victories and the all-time
ARCA superspeedway lap-leader having led 2,095 laps in 40 races. Steele
is also the all-time ARCA superspeedway pole winner with 14. Also
entered is the ’98 ARCA champ Frank Kimmel from nearby Jeffersonville,
Indiana and Des Moines, Iowa driver Shawna Robinson. Robinson, in a
Kranefuss/Mayfield Kmart sponsored Ford Taurus, is trying to become the
first female driver in 48 years of ARCA competition to win in the
world’s most versatile stock car series. At present, Robinson is locked
in a tight ARCA Rookie of the Year battle with Plymouth, Indiana’s Brian
Ross. Other veterans entered include Mokena, Illinois driver Bob Strait
in Mark Thompson’s Midway Islands Ford Taurus and Auburn, Georgia’s Mark
Gibson who will make his 196th start at Kentucky Speedway, more than any
other active driver. Veteran and 19-time ARCA winner Bob Schacht is also
entered as is ’99 Daytona ARCA 200 winner Bobby Gerhart out of Lebanon,
Pennsylvania. Additional entrants include Joe Cooksey, Andy Belmont,
Norm Benning, Mike Swaim Jr, Kirk Shelmerdine, Matt Hutter, Cavin
Councilor, ’99 Prestone ARCA Rookie of the Year Ron Cox and 2nd
generation driver Billy Venturini.