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First Entry List for ARCA Racing Series Season Opener Features Thirty Cars; More Expected to Come
Press Release
Among the opening entries are nine-time ARCA champion Frank Kimmel in the No. 44 Ansell / Menards Ford for Kimmel Racing, Venezuelan driver Milka Duno in the No. 63 CITGO Lubricants Dodge for Sheltra Motorsports, and NASCAR Camping World Truck Series driver Joey Coulter in the No. 16 Rip It Energy / Darrell Gwynn Foundation Chevrolet for Coulter Motorsports.
Three two-time ARCA Racing Series winners are entered: Mark Thompson will drive the No. 66 Phoenix Air Toyota for Venturini Motorsports after finishing second at Daytona last season; Dakoda Armstrong is entered in the No. 22 Ferrellgas-Syngenta Dodge for Cunningham Motorsports; and Chad McCumbee will drive the No. 1 ModSpace Ford for Andy Belmont Racing.
Canadian driver Maryeve Dufault will make her first ARCA Racing Series attempt in the No. 12 Tony Marks Racing Dodge, and Nick Igdalsky – a full-time competitor in the 2010 ARCA Racing Series season – will drive the No. 23 Fox Realty Chevrolet for owner Wayne Hixson.
Additional entries are expected in the coming weeks. The full entry list (as of today) is below.
The 2011 ARCA Racing Series presented by Menards season will mark the sanctioning body’s 59th year of competition and begins with the Lucas Oil Slick Mist 200 at Daytona International Speedway on Saturday, February 12. The event will air live on SPEED.
The complete 2011 event schedule is available at ARCARacing.com.
The ARCA Racing Series presented by Menards has crowned an ARCA national champion each year since its inaugural season in 1953, and has toured over 200 race tracks 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 a left- and right-turn road course.
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.
2011 Event #1, ARCA Racing Series Presented by Menards
Daytona Int’l Speedway, Daytona Beach FL, 2-12-11
Official Entry List, Lucas Oil Slick Mist 200
CAR DRIVER / HOMETOWN TEAM AND CAR TEAM OWNER
1 Chad McCumbee / Supply NC ModSpace Ford Jennifer Belmont
8 TBA TMR Dodge Tony Marks
12 Maryeve Dufault / Sorel Quebec TMR Dodge Tony Marks
14 TBA Andy Belmont Motorsports Ford Jennifer Belmont
15 Kyle Fowler / Smyrna GA Venturini Motorsports Chevrolet Bill Venturini
16 Joey Coulter/Miami Springs FL Darrell Gwynn Foundation-Rip It Energy Fuel Chevrolet Joe Coulter
22 Dakoda Armstrong / New Castle IN Ferrellgas-Syngenta Dodge Kerry Scherer
23 Nick Igdalsky / Long Pond PA Fox Realty Chevrolet Wayne Hixson
25 TBA Venturini Motorsports Toyota Cathy Venturini
28 TBA Hixson Construction Chevrolet Wayne Hixson
36 TBA JAM Dodge Mike Allgaier
37 Joey Gase / Cedar Rapids IA Spraker Racing Ford Jeff Spraker
42 Scott Stenzel / Orlando FL Yellow Stripes Making The Driver Ford Scott Stenzel
44 Frank Kimmel / Clarksville IN Ansell-Menards Ford Frank Kimmel
48 James Hylton / Inman SC Hylton Motorsports Ford James Hylton
54 Will Vaught / Crane MO Clements Race Engines Chevrolet Will Vaught
55 Hal Martin / Galliano LA Venturini Motorsports Toyota Billy Venturini
58 Chad Hackenbracht / New Philadelphia OH Tastee Apple Chevrolet Greg Hackenbracht
62 Drew Charlson / New Bremen OH Aluma Aluminum Trailers Chevrolet Larry Hollenbeck
63 Milka Duno / Caracas Venezuela Citgo Lubricants Dodge Patrick Sheltra
66 Mark Thompson / Cartersville GA Phoenix Air Toyota Cathy Venturini
68 Steve Blackburn / Prestonsburg KY Honda of Prestonburg-Harley of Pikeville Dodge Bill Kimmel
77 Joey Licata / Van Nuys CA Cunningham Motorsports Dodge Briggs Cunningham
82 Sean Corr / Goshen NY Empire Racing Ford John Corr
95 Tommy Joe Martins / Como MS Martins Motorsports Dodge Tommy Joe Martins
97 Matt Lofton / Mooresville NC Strutmasters.com Chevrolet Matt Lofton
06 Wayne Peterson / Pulaski TN Wayne Peterson Racing Chevrolet Wayne Peterson
08 TBA Hylton Motorsports Ford James Hylton
09 Benny Gordon / DuBois PA VSI Ford Grant Enfinger
Brian Rose / Louisville KY Harris Trucking-ASE Toyota Brian Rose
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