Real Racing, Real Fans, False Teeth: TALKIN' ARCA

Chris A · PostPosted: Thu Sep 18, 2008 10:33 pm

Yeah that's a pretty narrow escape. My dad was down in the infield in T3 and was close enough to hear that impact.

Temiree · PostPosted: Thu Sep 18, 2008 10:40 pm

That was brutal.

Dan Belcher · PostPosted: Thu Sep 18, 2008 11:16 pm

Chris A wrote:

Yeah that's a pretty narrow escape. My dad was down in the infield in T3 and was close enough to hear that impact.

Check out the Video Response that Jeff posted to my clip on Youtube from the infield. The *crunch* sound is sickening.

Chris A · PostPosted: Thu Sep 18, 2008 11:30 pm

Dan Belcher wrote:

Chris A wrote:

Yeah that's a pretty narrow escape. My dad was down in the infield in T3 and was close enough to hear that impact.

Check out the Video Response that Jeff posted to my clip on Youtube from the infield. The *crunch* sound is sickening.

Damn.

I'm guessing that's somewhat close to where my dad and the rest of the gang were standing.

Jeff · PostPosted: Fri Sep 19, 2008 7:19 am

I was by the fence on the backstretch,though I wandered all over the infield while I was there.

Watch Dan's video again,you can see Scott Speed's car attempt to climb the car next to him at the 8 second mark. I wish I'd filmed the entire wreck,you could see Scott's car climbing really well from where I was.

Cartman · PostPosted: Sat Oct 04, 2008 3:08 am

Heard on today's broadcast that the ARCA race at 'Dega will be moved to the spring next year.

smokyburnout · PostPosted: Sat Oct 04, 2008 3:15 am

and even if it does mix up the championship scenario like today's race did, it won't matter anywhere near as much.

Crashman · PostPosted: Sat Oct 04, 2008 4:56 am

Eeh, I like the Fall date, but since it would mean Dega would be the final race, I guess it makes sense.

Jeff · PostPosted: Sat Oct 04, 2008 8:52 pm

It's been in the spring before('92-'96). Just don't get why they'd move it,though.

David Hetzel · PostPosted: Tue Oct 07, 2008 5:07 pm

SimRacin14 wrote:

Just don't get why they'd move it,though.

More time for the sun to be out?

mdp4499 · PostPosted: Wed Oct 08, 2008 11:32 pm

Srs Nur is back. :flag:

FHgrad99 · PostPosted: Thu Oct 30, 2008 6:39 pm

It has been announced that ARCA is returning to the Nashville Speedway or the first time since 1992 on June 20, 2009. Here is the article.

http://www.arcaracing.com/news.cfm?contentid=7379

SBan83 · PostPosted: Thu Oct 30, 2008 7:16 pm

FHgrad99 wrote:

It has been announced that ARCA is returning to the Nashville Speedway or the first time since 1992 on June 20, 2009. Here is the article.

http://www.arcaracing.com/news.cfm?contentid=7379

That's great.

SPEED probably won't cover it I guess as it's not a big ol' cookie-cutter.

KK3869 · PostPosted: Thu Oct 30, 2008 7:57 pm

Yeah I know right. Tottaly Speeds fault for not covering races.

Jeff · PostPosted: Thu Oct 30, 2008 8:51 pm

Guess I'll be going down there next year.

I was going to go to the Nashville Superspeedway race this year,but Casola left Win-Tron before the race so I didn't go.

Jeff · PostPosted: Thu Oct 30, 2008 8:58 pm

So the current schedule is shaping up so far:

2/? Daytona (probably the same day as the Shootout,as always)
4/? Salem
?/? Talladega(remember they were talking about moving this race to the spring from the fall.)
5/9 Kentucky
5/? Rockingham(haven't heard anything on this.)
5/? Toledo (ARCA owns Toledo,so they'll be racing there,obviously)
6/20 Nashville Fairgrounds
7/18 Kentucky Speedway (Apparently a doubleheader on the same day with the NCWTS.)
9/? Salem (Fall race,I think ARCA's had a deal with Salem for awhile)
10/? Toledo (likely season finale again.)

I'm sure there will be Springfield,DuQuoin,two Pocono races and a Michigan race, as well as races at Chicago,Iowa and Kansas probably.

Not sure if they're still using Nashville SS,or returning to the New Jersey roadcourse. I would like to see them return to Winchester Speedway.

The '09 schedule in full is supposed to be released this week.

Cartman · PostPosted: Fri Oct 31, 2008 12:36 am

Quote:

Official 2009 ARCA RE/MAX Series Schedule

DATE TRACK LOCATION TRACK
2-7 Daytona Int'l Speedway Daytona Beach, FL 2.5 paved
4-5 Salem Speedway Salem, IN .555 paved
4-19 Rockingham Speedway Rockingham, NC 1 paved
4-24 Talladega Superspeedway Talladega, AL 2.66 paved
5-9 Kentucky Speedway Sparta, KY 1.5 paved
5-17 Toledo Speedway Toledo, OH .5 paved
6-6 Pocono Raceway Long Pond, PA 2.5 paved
6-12 Michigan Int'l Speedway Brooklyn, MI 2 paved
6-20 Music City Motorplex Nashville, TN .625 paved
6-28 Cayuga Motor Speedway Hagersville, ON .625 paved
7-11 Iowa Speedway Newton, IA .875 paved
7-18 Kentucky Speedway Sparta, KY 1.5 paved
7-25 Berlin Raceway Marne, MI .4 paved
8-1 Pocono Raceway Long Pond, PA 2.5 paved
8-23 Illinois State Fairgrounds Springfield, IL 1 clay
8-28 Chicagoland Speedway Joliet, IL 1.5 paved
9-4 Toledo Speedway Toledo, OH .5 paved
9-7 DuQuoin State Fairgrounds DuQuoin, IL 1 clay
9-13 New Jersey Motorsports Park Millville, NJ 2.25 roadcourse
9-19 Salem Speedway Salem, IN .555 paved
10-1 Kansas Speedway Kansas City, KS 1.5 paved
10-11 Rockingham Speedway Rockingham, NC 1 paved

The Nashville SS date has been replaced with Music City Motorplex (the old Fairgrounds track), Talladega has been moved to the spring as expected, and The Rock now has 2 dates, with the second date replacing Toledo as the season finale. :thumbsup:

JB-F1 · PostPosted: Fri Oct 31, 2008 12:43 am

Music City Motorplex? That's a truly hideous name for a real racing circuit. Sounds like some sort of futuristic race track in one of those cheap sci-fi programs

Dan Belcher · PostPosted: Fri Oct 31, 2008 1:07 am

JB-F1 wrote:

Music City Motorplex? That's a truly hideous name for a real racing circuit. Sounds like some sort of futuristic race track in one of those cheap sci-fi programs

It may be an awful name, but it's one of the best damn paved short tracks in the country. I'm totally going to this race.

FHgrad99 · PostPosted: Fri Oct 31, 2008 6:21 am

JB-F1 wrote:

Music City Motorplex? That's a truly hideous name for a real racing circuit. Sounds like some sort of futuristic race track in one of those cheap sci-fi programs

That track has a lot of history. It used to be called the Nashville Speedway. Drivers like Darrell Waltrip, Sterling Marlin, The Green Brothers and the Hamiltons all cut their racing teeth at that track. 2008 was the 50th year of racing at the track.

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