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This one’s for my crew,” said Kligerman, who continued to pad his point lead in the process.

“We started off this weekend making a lot of changes after practice because we wanted to be good for qualifying and the car wasn’t quite right during practice. That was unusual for us because normally we’re good right off of the truck but we didn’t get to test here so it affected us heading into the race weekend.

“At the beginning of the race the 16 [Joey Coulter] was faster than us. Then we made a pit stop and the crew made some adjustments and the track started to come to us and we picked up some speed. I just want to thank Kerry Scherer, Briggs Cunningham, Mark Gibson, my crew chief Chris Carrier and everyone at Penske Racing. We seem to be doing really well this year and we won again tonight so I think we picked up some points in the championship race.”

Kligerman, in the Cunningham Motorsports Dodge, led 142 of 200 laps, including the final 52 circuits en route to his fourth series victory in only his 12th series start.

Dillon had the best opportunity to challenge the eventual winner during a late-race restart under 20 laps to go, but just couldn’t get close enough to make a difference. Nonetheless, Dillon still finished second albeit nearly three seconds away.

“That’s twice that we have lost it to Parker [Kligerman],” said Dillon who also finished second to Kligerman at Michigan Int’l Speedway. “I have to congratulate our team; they’ve been good all year. We don’t get to come out and race with the ARCA RE/MAX Series every weekend but whenever we do we have a great time. If we ever get a chance to actually start up front in one of these races I think we would have a chance to win. We used up our car trying to work up to the front.”

Dillon, who was fastest in practice, had to go to a back-up car for the race after he damaged his primary car in qualifying after spinning off turn two.

“After starting at the end for switching to a backup car after that qualifying mishap, it was a good race overall. This is a tough track. Very physically demanding. You have to work hard to pass.

I’m going to come back for the NASCAR Nationwide Series race and I think racing here in the ARCA RE/MAX Series will help me when I come back because we learned a lot.”

Joey Coulter, in the Darrell Gwynn Foundation-Tempest Cycles Chevrolet, had the fastest car at the beginning of the race and led 47 laps overall before his car tightened up too much at the end.

“The last set of tires we just tightened up a little bit,” said Coulter. “We tested here and we were fastest at the test. We were real fast in practice yesterday and we qualified on the pole so needless to say this is one of my favorite racetracks that I’ve run on so far. I’ve got to congratulate Parker [Kligerman, race winner]; he is really on a roll right now.”

Coulter also earned his career-first Menards Pole Award presented by Ansell earlier in the day.

Sixteen-year-old Chris Buescher battled from one lap down to finish fourth in the David Ragan Fan Club Ford.

Brian Ickler was fifth in the BrianIckler.com Toyota.

The next event for the ARCA RE/MAX Series will be the Click It or Ticket Buckle-Up Kentucky 150 Saturday night, July 18th.

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The 19-year-old driver circled the .875-mile short track in 23.138 seconds, an average speed of 136.140 mph. The one-lap track record was set by Steve Wallace in 2006 at 137.357 mph.

“We got to try a lot of different things today,” said Coulter. “We found out how the car reacts to big and small changes. We were really fast right out of the trailer, and then just adjusted on it little by little. After lunch, we made some really big changes, completely changed the set-up. Then, right before our quickest lap, we made our last adjustment – a combination of things, track bar, wedge and changed a couple shocks.

“It’s the same set-up that we’re using in the race, but we had the nose taped off and the tires set at qualifying pressures.”

Coulter, who has climbed to 6th in championship points, is on a role lately with three consecutive top-five finishes, including a career-best second at Mansfield last weekend.

“It’s the same situation as Mansfield. This will be my third time here at Iowa, so I could spend more time on how the car works on the track rather than having to spend all my time learning the track, or both.”

In all, 15 drivers tested in preparation for the next event on tour – the Prairie Meadows 200 at the Newton, Iowa track on Saturday, July 11.

ARCA RE/MAX Series rookie Austin Dillon, also in a Chevrolet, was second on the speed charts with a speed of 134.967 mph. Dillon, the grandson of Richard Childress Racing team owner Richard Childress, is also coming off a career-best run at Michigan Int’l Speedway where he finished second in mid-June.

Sixteen-year-old Chris Buescher was third on the charts in the Roulo Brothers-prepared David Ragan Fan Club Ford. The Prosper, Texas rookie posted a best speed of 134.495 mph.

NASCAR Camping World East Series racer/winner Brian Ickler was fourth overall at 134.088 mph.

Johanna Long, in a Venturini Motorsports-prepared Chevrolet, made her first laps in an ARCA RE/MAX Series car in the open test, posting the fifth best speed overall at 133.786 mph. Long, 17, recently made headlines at Five Flags Speedway in Pensacola, Florida with a victory in the super late model Blizzard Series. Long dominated the 100-lap race from the pole leading the most laps en route to the win, her second triumph in three attempts in the Blizzard Series at Five Flags.

There was only one on-track incident when Tim George, Jr. spun off turn four and backed into the outer retaining wall. He was not injured.

Dakoda Armstrong, in a Cunningham Motorsports Dodge, made the most laps during the open test circling the track 111 times.

2009 ARCA RE/MAX Series Open Testing
Iowa Speedway, Newton IA, 6-30-09
Overall Results

NO DRIVER/HOMETOWN CAR TIME SPEED

16 Joey Coulter/Miami Springs FL Chevrolet 23.138 136.140

31 Austin Dillon/Welcome NC Chevrolet 23.339 134.967

17 Chris Buescher/Prosper TX Ford 23.421 134.495

51 Brian Ickler/Mooresville NC Toyota 23.492 134.088

25 Johanna Long/Pensacola FL Chevrolet 23.545 133.786

6 Justin Lofton/Westmorland CA Toyota 23.689 132.973

32c James Buescher/Plano TX Toyota 23.706 132.878

32b Matt Merrell/Portland TX Toyota 23.780 132.464

4 Dakoda Armstrong/New Castle IN Dodge 23.787 132.425

60 Patrick Sheltra/Indiantown FL Dodge 23.839 132.136

20 Steve Arpin/Fort Frances ON Toyota 23.853 132.059

81 Craig Goess/Greenville NC Toyota 23.854 132.053

2 Tim George Jr./New York NY Toyota 23.995 131.277

36a Robb Brent/Shelby Township MI Dodge 24.045 131.004

32a Matt Merrell/Portland TX Toyota 24.066 130.890

58 Chad Hackenbracht Chevrolet 24.276 129.758

36b Robb Brent/Shelby Township MI Dodge 24.628 127.903

- ARCA Press ReleaseMNa