JOLIET, IL - Steve Arpin drove the No. 55 Mike's Hard Lemonade Toyota to the fastest lap in the afternoon session of ARCA Racing Series presented by RE/MAX and Menards testing at the 1.5-mile Chicagoland Speedway, but Craig Goess's morning speed held up as the day's fastest. 19 drivers and 20 cars participated.
Arpin drove the Venturini Motorsports Toyota to his best of 21 afternoon laps in 30.829 seconds (175.160 mph), falling just short of Goess's 30.807-second (175.285 mph) morning effort in the No. 81 Greenville Toyota of N.C. Toyota for Eddie Sharp Racing.
Mikey Kile, who had finished second in the opening test session, posted the afternoon's second-fastest time, at 30.922 seconds (174.633 mph) - an improvement of 0.145 second from the morning. Kile's effort listed third on the day's overall chart.
Chad McCumbee and Grant Enfinger filled out the top five for the afternoon.
Justin Marks, who was working out two different cars for Win-Tron Racing, brushed the wall at the exit of Turn 2.
The ARCA Racing Series races at Chicagoland Speedway on Friday, August 27, but will first run on the dirt of the Illinois State Fairgrounds in Springfield in Sunday's Allen Crowe 100.
The 100-lap, 100-mile Allen Crowe 100 is scheduled to begin at 1 p.m. Central (2 Eastern) on Sunday, August 22, with live timing and scoring and live audio coverage presented by ARCA Nation at ARCARacing.com.
The lone practice is scheduled for 9 a.m. Central, with Menards Pole Qualifying presented by Ansell - which has produced 11 different pole winners in 12 qualifying sessions this season - taking place at 11 a.m. Live audio coverage and live timing and scoring of all events will be available on 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.
From ARCA
ARCA RACING SERIES presented by RE/MAX and MENARDS
Chicagoland Speedway, Joliet Illinois
Overall Open Test Results, August 19, 2010
CAR DRIVER MAKE TIME SPEED
1 81 Craig Goess Toyota 30.807 175.285
2 55 Steve Arpin Toyota 30.829 175.160
3 25 Mikey Kile Toyota 30.922 174.633
4 31 Scott Wimmer Chevy 31.131 173.461
5 1 Chad McCumbee Ford 31.316 172.436
6 09 Grant Enfinger Ford 31.352 172.238
7 71 Max Gresham Toyota 31.378 172.095
8 32a Justin Marks Toyota 31.442 171.745
9 15 Alli Owens Chevy 31.599 170.891
10 77a Tom Hessert Dodge 31.741 170.127
11 31 Tim George, Jr. Chevy 31.777 169.934
12 17 Chris Buescher Ford 31.785 169.891
13 16 Joey Coulter Chevy 31.785 169.891
14 22 Dakoda Armstrong Dodge 31.835 169.625
15 11 Bryan Silas Ford 32.037 168.555
16 32b Justin Marks Toyota 32.182 167.796
17 58 Chad Hackenbracht Chevy 32.187 167.770
18 77b Tom Hessert Dodge 32.511 166.098
19 70 Tony Palumbo Ford 32.767 164.800
20 75 Benny Chastain Ford 32.861 164.329
21 7 Kent Schenkel Dodge 33.132 162.984
Friday, August 20, 2010
Canadian Steve Arpin Tops Afternoon as Goess Takes Day at ARCA Chicagoland Test
