Sam Hornish Conducts ARCA RE/MAX Tests at MIS
IndyCar Series champion Sam Hornish Jr. can’t get enough racing these days.
Fresh off a fourth-place finish in last Sunday’s Indianapolis 500, the three-time IndyCar Series champion turned a few laps Tuesday in a stock car at Michigan International Speedway. Hornish was preparing for a possible run in the June 15 ARCA RE/MAX Series race at the track.
“I’d love to run the ARCA race in June,”Hornish said. “I think that getting here for this test is a fairly good indication that we will be able to run the ARCA RE/MAX Series race.”
The test with 14 other ARCA drivers marked a new experience for the 2006 Indianapolis 500 winner. Though this was his first time in a stock car at MIS, Hornish has five IndyCar Series starts at the track.
Since it’s inception in 1952, ARCA has enjoyed a deep history with drivers from open wheel racing disciplines. In particular, several former Indianapolis 500 winners have made the switch to stock cars via ARCA. Among them, 2000 Indy 500 winner and former Formula One driver Montoya, as well as Johnnie Parsons, Sr., who won the Indianapolis 500 in 1950 and went on to win an ARCA RE/MAX Series race in 1957. 1952 Indianapolis 500 winner Troy Ruttman is a three-time ARCA RE/MAX Series winner, while 1958 Indy 500 winner Jimmy Bryan has one ARCA RE/MAX Series victory. Rodger Ward, who earned Indy 500 victories in 1959 and 1962, won a 150-mile ARCA race at the Milwaukee Mile on August 23, 1959.
