Full Throttle

Braun Racing lost one of the most beloved members of its team on June 25. Linda Braun, lovingly known as “Mama B,” mother of NASCAR Nationwide Series owner, Todd Braun, passed away suddenly of natural causes in her hometown of Winamac, Ind.
As a tribute to “Mama B,” both Braun Racing entries, the No. 38 [...]

Daytona 500 Experience, “The Official Attraction of NASCAR” has yet another way for race fans to get immersed in the sport - literally. Photos by Daytona Int’l Speedway
The Sim Factory LLC, in association with the ARCA RE/MAX Series, Daytona International Speedway and Daytona 500 Experience has added a new ARCA Driver Development Program simulator [...]

Stan Yee, legendary ARCA late model car owner, passed away over the weekend while vacationing in Las Vegas. He would have been 76 today May 20.
Stan Yee and his brother John, through the Stan Yee’s Collision shop, developed an interest in racing in the 1960s. Initially dabbling in drag racing through an association with Connie [...]

Roush-Fenway Racing rookie Ricky Stenhouse, Jr., and his #99 Ford used a solid restart on Lap 107 of 112 to steal the race lead from Scott Speed and the No. 2 Red Bull Toyota and drive away to his first ARCA RE/MAX Series win in front of 10,273 “Drive Smart! Buckle-Up Kentucky 150” fans at [...]

Congratulations to ARCA RE/MAX Series car owner and former driver Andy Hillenburg for bringing Rockingham back to life.
Same goes for Joey Logano for winning in his first ever ARCA event at the wheel of a Venturini Motorsports prepared, Joe Gibbs sponsored Chevy. The soon-to-be 18 year old Gibbs phenom decimated the field and lapped [...]

Jeff Boyer and his #05 Boyer-Rimi Racing Chevrolet has the “pleasure” of starting shotgun on the field at The Rock, no not that Rock, this one when the Carolina 500 rolls off Sunday afternoon.
That’s not just shotgun on any field of stock cars, but shotgun on a field of FIFTY. And at that he’s [...]

There must have been a few leftover rainbows over the state after the recent storms in Kansas.
And F1 veteran Scott Speed may have caught one on his way to his first-ever ARCA RE/MAX Series win in the Kansas Lottery $150 Grand Friday afternoon at Kansas Speedway.
Speed started on the outside pole but by lap 16 [...]

ARCA RE/MAX Series veteran Ken Schrader, in his own no. 52 Federated Auto Parts Dodge, earned the SIM Factory Pole Award Saturday afternoon at Salem Speedway for Sunday’s running of the Kentuckiana Ford Dealers ARCA 200 presented by Federated Auto Parts.
The Fenton, Missouri native was the only driver to crack the 16-second barrier with a [...]

Jim Bickerstaff, ARCA late model race winner and Ohio short track sensation, died Friday, March 21, at St. Elizabeth Medical Center near his hometown of Mineral Ridge, Ohio.
Memories of Jim Bickerstaff go back to my earliest days of following the Midwest Association for Race Cars (MARC), later to become ARCA, and entire weekends shuffled between [...]

Scott Wimmer becomes Nashville Superspeedway’s live action Guitar Man, as opposed to the video game of the same name.
It took another stroke of Kyle Busch bad luck, this time self inflicted, but the #20’s lawn cutting escapade led to Scott Wimmer’s first series win since 2003.
Wimmer edged RCR teammate Clint Bowyer by 0.578 seconds. [...]

Michael Annett wanted to grow up to be a professional hockey player. A strange avocation for someone growing up in Iowa as he did.
An even stranger transformation occurred age of 16 when Annett got his first chance behind the wheel of a racecar. As they say the rest is history, he added to his resume [...]

Ahhh… warm breezy nights lighted by the yellow glow of a full moon, with the sound of the Atlantic’s rhythmic beat in your ears as its waves lap the shoreline!
How romantic!
(Hey stupid, wake up, you’re dreaming!!)
Arrrrg…. excuse me. Damn Sandman!
Midnight Moon, Junior Johnson , moonshine, the #70 Toyota and Jeremy Mayfield in the 50th running [...]

Cunningham Motorsports announced that A1GP open wheel veteran Nur Ali will pilot the #45 Dodge Charger at Daytona International Speedway in the ARCA 200, February 9, 2008.
Ali tested successfully at the Daytona test in December 2007 and Nur logged the most laps and miles over the three days of testing than any other driver. He [...]

Cayuga Speedway Park has hosted many current and past NASCAR stars through the years.
The Allison Brothers along with son Davey Allison, Dale Earnhardt, Bill Elliott, Canadian legends Junior Hanley, Don Biederman and Ron Fellows, Matt Kenseth, Alan Kulwicki, Mark Martin, Tony Stewart, Rusty Wallace, Dick Trickle, Darrell Waltrip, and many more have all competed and [...]

Them damn sporty and open wheel types! Just who do they think they are pulling a Normandy-like invasion trying to break NASCAR’s hold on American motorsport?
The unmitigated gall!! The very IDEA!!
Bad news traditionalists, and you xenophobes also, the very idea was Big Bill France’s in 1969 during the Daytona 500. As the xenophobes would say, [...]

Tri-State Motorsports, and its driver Frank Kimmel, have gone their separate ways.
Kimmel just clinched his ninth ARCA RE/MAX Series championship, all with Tri-State Motorsports, will compete the 2008 season under the Kimmel Racing banner, a new team set-up with his brother and long-time crew chief Bill Kimmel.

Pole sitter Michael McDowell pushed his way past James Buescher during a G/W/C finish to win the ARCA RE/MAX Series season finale at Toledo on Sunday afternoon. It was McDowell’s fourth win of the year and the first at a short track as he dominated leading 166 of the 200 laps.
Frank Kimmel celebrated his ninth [...]

Just as he did a couple months back Ray Evernham has “come clean” over his workplace dalliance with ARCA RE/MAX driver Erin Crocker.
Crocker competed at Talladega in Evernham’s Mac Tools Dodge finishing 18th and wrapped up the series’ Superspeedway Challenge Title that includes events held at Daytona, Nashville, Kentucky, Pocono, Michigan, Kansas, Gateway, Chicagoland and [...]

And it wasn’t on the bottom.

Bryan Clauson is an 18 year old development driver for Ganassi racing in the ARCA RE/MAX Series.
That development has come fast & furious as he has scored 4 top fives in only 5 starts including the Series’ last event at Salem where he picked up his first win and sits on the pole for the [...]