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The University of Northwestern Ohio (UNOH) offers a one-of-a-kind program in its College of Technologies. UNOH possesses the only North Central Association accredited degree program in High Performance/Motorsports, and was the first university in the world to offer a High Performance/Motorsports program.

Justin Marks made ARCA history Saturday afternoon, winning the rain-shortened Tire Kingdom 150 presented by ModSpace at Palm Beach International Raceway.

The ARCA Racing Series presented by RE/MAX and Menards is a lot of things to a lot of people. To some, it’s not much more than a stepping stone to the next level, and the fame and fortune of NASCAR.

Hugh J. Fair, 84, who raced in the ARCA Late Model division at Toledo and Flat Rock Speedways, and whose son Harold Fair and grandson Harold Fair Jr. are ARCA Late Model drivers at both tracks, died Tuesday Feb. 16.

ARCA RE/Max Series veteran Bobby Gerhart won his sixth ARCA event at Daytona followed by Mark Thompson, John Wes Townley, pole winner James Buescher and Patrick Sheltra.

The starting field for Saturday’s Lucas Oil Slick Mist 200 ARCA Racing Series presented by RE/MAX and Menards race is set following Friday’s qualifying session at Daytona International Speedway. Defending race winner James Buescher will lead off Saturday’s 43-car starting field after earning the Menards Pole Award presented by Ansell with a 49.575 second/181.543 mph lap around the 2.5 mile speedway.

During the second half of the 1969 NASCAR Grand National season, Dodge rolled out the Daytona, a massive shark-nosed machine that featured an addition that looked like something out of the Hollywood hit, “2001: A Space Odyssey,” a giant rear wing that rose several feet above the rear deck lid.

The ARCA Racing Series presented by RE/MAX and Menards officially opened on-track activity for the stock car portion of Hershey’s Milk and Milkshakes Speedweeks 2010 with a practice session that lasted just shy of five hours on Thursday.

Nelson Piquet driver had initially planned to contest the Free State 500 stock car event on the Phakisa oval prior to his US racing debut but will now head straight to Daytona.

When lifelong NASCAR fan Joshua Mabe of Louisville, Ky., heard that driver Travis Kvapil was without a sponsor he vowed to use his business skills to negotiate a sponsorship deal to keep the much-loved Kvapil racing.

The second of three political tsunamis that have swept America in recent months brought in conservative and Republican New Jersey Governor Chris Christie who was sworn in this past week.

Today, I went online and ordered a No. 7 Danica Patrick T-shirt. Let’s just make one thing perfectly clear from the outset — I am not a person who is inclined to wear hot girls on my T-shirts.

Danica Patrick made her first laps in an ARCA Racing Series presented by RE/MAX and Menards stock car during a rain-shortened test session at Daytona Int’l Speedway on Friday afternoon. Patrick, one of 26 drivers who posted a time during the 35-minute single car run session, was 12th quickest on the charts with a time of 51.095 seconds (176.142 mph) around the 2.5-mile superspeedway.

The Danica to NASCAR bruhaha, after her ARCA indoctrination of course, has become the 10,000 pound elephant in the room with every ink stained scribe opining both pro and con on her imminent arrival, or not, in NASCAR’s Nationwide Series.

Leilani Münter will be driving the #59 NextEra Energy Resources Dodge for Mark Gibson Racing (MGR) in the three day ARCA Series open test at Daytona International Speedway on December 18, 19, and 20.

Milka Duno will join fellow IndyCar Series driver Danica Patrick at next week’s ARCA test at Daytona International Speedway.

Danica Patrick ended months of speculation when she announced on Tuesday a deal to race part-time in NASCAR’s Nationwide Series. The only woman to win an IndyCar race will suit up for JR Motorsports, a team co-owned by Dale, Jr. and Kelley Earnhardt, as well as Rick Hendrick and Tony Eury, Jr.

Officials of the Automobile Racing Club of America (ARCA) have announced that the 105-inch wheelbase chassis currently used in the NASCAR Nationwide and NASCAR Camping World East and West Series has been approved for competition in 2010 in the ARCA Racing Series presented by RE/MAX.

It would be difficult, to say the least, to equal and/or surpass the achievements of rookie Parker Kligerman on the ARCA RE/MAX Series tour. Even the most experienced veterans haven’t put up numbers equivalent to Kligerman.

In only Justin Lofton’s second season in the ARCA RE/MAX Series, the 23-year-old California native added his name to a very distinguished list of drivers Sunday when he claimed the series championship at Rockingham Speedway with a third-place finish in the American 200.