ARCA Racing Series "Tim Richmond Memorial 200" at MMP
June 22, 2010For Immediate Release:
Monday, June 21, 2010
ARCA Racing Series "Tim Richmond Memorial 200" Set for
July 17 at Mansfield Motorsports Park
(TOLEDO, Ohio) - The ARCA Racing Series Presented by RE/MAX and Menards will embrace its short track roots Saturday, July 17, in the second Tim Richmond Memorial 200 at Mansfield Motorsports Park. The 100-mile event featuring the nationally-touring stock car series will be the first of 2010 at the venerable half-mile facility.
The Tim Richmond Memorial 200 will headline a full day of racing action at the central Ohio track, located at 100 Crall Road in Mansfield. Practice begins at 2:30 p.m., with Menards Pole Qualifying Presented by Ansell scheduled for 5:30. An on-track driver autograph session featuring the entire starting lineup will take place at 6:30, and the green flag to start the Tim Richmond Memorial 200 will wave shortly after 8.
Parker Kligerman drove a Cunningham Motorsports Dodge to victory in the only previous ARCA Racing Series event at Mansfield Motorsports Park, which took place last June. Kligerman led 103 of 202 laps to secure the third of his series-leading nine wins in 2009.
Joey Coulter, who finished second in 2009, will arrive in Mansfield this season as the highest-returning finisher.
Discounted tickets are available for the 10th of 20 races in the nationally-touring stock car series' season. Menards, the Wisconsin-based home improvement retail chain and a presenting sponsor of the ARCA Racing Series, will offer advance sale tickets at 50 percent off of the raceday admission price at five participating locations.
The Ontario Menards location, situated at 1999 Walker Road near Mansfield, joins stores in Sandusky, Findlay, Marion, and Massillon in offering race tickets at $15 through July 15.
More information is available by calling Mansfield Motorsports Park at (419) 524-0183 or by visiting ARCARacing.com.
The ARCA Racing Series Presented by RE/MAX and Menards features 20 events at 17 tracks on its 2010 schedule. The series has crowned an ARCA national champion each year since its inaugural season in 1953, and has toured over 200 racetracks in 28 states since its inception. The series tests the abilities of drivers and race teams over the most diverse schedule of stock car racing events in the world, annually visiting tracks ranging from 0.4 mile to 2.66 miles in length, on both paved and dirt surfaces as well as left- and right-turn street and road courses.
Founded by John Marcum in 1953 in Toledo, Ohio, the Automobile Racing Club of America (ARCA) is recognized among the leading sanctioning bodies in the country. Closing in on completing its sixth decade after hundreds of thousands of miles of racing, ARCA administers over 100 race events each season in two professional touring series and local weekly events.
CONTACT:Griffin Hickman, ARCA
(419) 574-2685 (mobile)
ghickman@arcaracing.com
Don Radebaugh, ARCA(419) 450-0611 (mobile)
dradebaugh@arcaracing.com
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