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14 Nov 2007, 03:13 (Ref:2067046) | #1 | ||
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2008 ARCA RE/MAX Series Schedule
It includes 2 dirt tracks and 1 road track. Rockingham is also on the schedule. Now if someone would only buy North Wilkesboro so ARCA could also add it to their schedule. This is a quite good schedule.
http://www.arcaracing.com/content/view/5909/2/ 2008 ARCA RE/MAX Series Schedule 02-09 Daytona Speedway 2.500 mile paved track 04-13 Salem Speedway 0.555 mile paved track 04-19 Iowa Speedway 0.875 mile paved track 04-26 Kansas Speedway 1.500 mile paved track 05-04 Rockingham Speedway 1.000 mile paved track 05-10 Kentucky Speedway 1.500 mile paved track 05-18 Toledo Speedway 0.500 mile paved track 06-07 Pocono Raceway 2.500 mile paved track 06-13 Michigan Speedway 2.000 mile paved track 06-29 Cayuga Speedway Park 0.675 mile paved track 07-11 Kentucky Speedway 1.500 mile paved track 07-26 Berlin Raceway 0.400 mile paved track 08-02 Pocono Raceway 2.500 mile paved track 08-09 Nashville Superspeedway 1.330 mile concrete track 08-17 Illinois StateFairgrounds 1.000 mile clay track 09-01 DuQuoin StateFairgrounds 1.000 mile clay track 09-06 Chicagoland Speedway 1.500 mile paved track 09-13 Salem Speedway 0.555 mile paved track 09-28 New Jersey MotorsportsPark 2.300 mile paved track 10-03 Talladega Superspeedway 2.660 mile paved track 10-12 Toledo Speedway 0.500 mile paved track |
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14 Nov 2007, 11:20 (Ref:2067194) | #2 | ||
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And the Rockingham race will be 500 miles, making the Carolina 500 the star event of the season. Hopefully SPEED finally decides to bring us the full season.
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14 Nov 2007, 12:20 (Ref:2067239) | #3 | ||
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What made them decide to throw in some dirt tracks?
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14 Nov 2007, 12:37 (Ref:2067252) | #4 | ||
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Actually, they also had 2 dirt tracks in 2007.
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14 Nov 2007, 12:40 (Ref:2067257) | #5 | ||
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I didn't know that. Do they use different cars for those races?
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14 Nov 2007, 17:32 (Ref:2067461) | #6 | ||
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14 Nov 2007, 18:42 (Ref:2067497) | #7 | |
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I wish they'd add a couple of dirt tracks to the Cup schedule. It'd be a fantastic spectacle.
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14 Nov 2007, 19:09 (Ref:2067516) | #9 | |
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Sadly, probably not. But, why not? There's more than enough money in the sport to build a new venue and the ability to run on dirt could (should?) have been built into the CoT design.
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15 Nov 2007, 23:39 (Ref:2068453) | #10 | ||
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A thought............
ARCA has a very nice looking schedule. Nascar will probably be having a fire sale on the COY and ARCA will be the beneficiary. It will be inviting for more teams to try competing in ARCA. Nascar is losing fans in big numbers and it would not surprise me to see ARCA adding fans to their racing. Am I missing something?? |
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17 Nov 2007, 17:35 (Ref:2069656) | #11 | ||
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Yes, true. Most of the NASCAR teams are giving their cars to their teams in ARCA or selling them to other ARCA teams. And with adding a 500 mile event to the schedule it looks like ARCA wants to get serious.
But I do think the next couple of years will be very important to the series. The Sprint Cup moves to the COT next season and the Nationwide Series will get their own new car (based on COT) within a couple of years. ARCA can become star struck. With lots of cars and much success the series will be carrying a lot of momentum. But then what will they do. Will they become a separate stock car series, running the old Cup car, or eventually change to the new COT. In the last couple of years ARCA really became a feeder series, more than ever. Lots of Cup teams are running cars with their newest talents in it. I could see them leave just as easily as they came, thinking their talents could rather debut in Trucks or the new Nationwide car as they are much closer to the new Cup car. Oh well, just some stupid thoughts of a fan. But that doesn't mean the future of the ARCA RE/MAX Series won't be interesting. I would love to see them get their own identity with their own car (old Cup one that is). Maybe that would attract some more drivers that will stick around for more than one season and finally give Kimmel and the new Kimmel Racing a run for their money. |
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18 Nov 2007, 01:26 (Ref:2069901) | #12 | ||
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Speaking of Kimmel. Has anyone heard why Advance auto Parts dropped them as sponsor. I have been wondering why. Anyone know the gossip.
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21 Nov 2007, 14:19 (Ref:2072515) | #13 | ||
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It will be interesting to see how ARCA grows now that they will get an influx of higher quality cars. I prefer ARCA racing to NASCAR, the drivers are there more for the love of racing than for money. Plus, the majority of NASCAR Cup and Nationwide races are way too long and dull to hold my attention anymore, 4 plus hours is way to long for any race (excluding an endurance event) in my opinion. Beyond a couple Nationwide and CTS races, I haven't watched any this year. One thing I enjoyed about NASCAR a few years ago was that there were still some "underdog" drivers and teams like Geoffrey Bodine, Dave Marcis, etc. floating around. But with the qualifying and other changes they are pretty much non-existent anymore, and it takes a lot of the fun out of it for me.
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14 Dec 2007, 03:44 (Ref:2088407) | #15 | ||
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An ARCA race at DuQuoin was televised a few years ago probably because Tony Stewart raced in it. It was one of the best races I've ever watched. It was wild to see those big old stock cars on dirt. Oh yeah.....Tony won.
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