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The ARCA Racing Series powered by ReMax and Menards is an American stock car series, the premier division of the ARCA. It is considered a minor, but professional, league of stock car racing, perhaps two steps down from the top-level NASCAR Sprint Cup Series and one step down from that series' minor league, the NASCAR Nationwide Series. Though some events occour the same weekend as NASCAR events, the Series is in no way affiliated with NASCAR,

History

The series started as a local touring group. Led by John Marcum, the Midwest Association for Race Cars was formed with drivers like Iggy Katona and Nelson Stacy being early drivers.

The series became a part of the Daytona Speedweeks in 1964.<ref>http://www.arcaracing.com/content/blogcategory/57/83/</ref> The same year, the series name was changed from MARC(Midwest Association for Race Cars) to the current ARCA(Automobile Racing Club of America) by John Marcum as a suggestion from Bill France, the founder of NASCAR.

The series races on tracks as varied as small ovals and as large as Daytona International Speedway during the Daytona Speedweeks. It is one of the last major oval track circuits to still compete on dirt tracks. In 2008 the series returned to racing on a road course.<ref>http://www.arcaracing.com/content/view/5922/2/</ref>

Arca cars are know to overturn quite easily, shown by two flips (Jill George Jr. and Barry Fitzgerald) in the 2010 Daytona ARCA 200. Mickey Hudspeth overturned at Atlanta in 1996, and lost his arm in the wreck.

Fatalities

• John Stout - ARCA event at Louisville Fairgrounds Speedway (August 12,1972) (suffered heart attack during race)
• Louis Wusterhausen - ARCA event at Texas World Speedway (October 8,1972) (killed in first lap accident during race)
• Gene Richards - ARCA 200 at Talladega Superspeedway (July 31, 1982)
• Ken Kalla - ARCA 200 at Talladega Superspeedway (1983)
• Francis Affleck - practice for Daytona ARCA 200 at Daytona International Speedway (February 7, 1985)
• Stuart Lyndon - Atlanta Motor Speedway (1985)
• Tracy Read - race at Talladega Superspeedway (July 25, 1987)
• Slick Johnson - Daytona ARCA 200 at Daytona (February 1990)
• Chris Gehrke - Poulan Pro 500k at Talladega Superspeedway (May 7, 1991)
• Chad Coleman - Atlanta Motor Speedway (1998)
• Scott Baker - ARCA Bondo/Mar-Hyde Series 150 Toledo Speedway (June 23, 2000)<ref>Scott Baker Obituary</ref>
• Dean Roper - ARCA Allen Crowe Memorial 100 Illinois State Fairgrounds Racetrack (August 2001) (suffered a heart attack during the race)
• Blaise Alexander - EasyCare 100 at Lowe's Motor Speedway (October 4, 2001) (finished second after the race was called. Alexander and Kerry Earnhardt had crashed which claimed his life when they were battling for the lead) <ref>http://www.arcaracing.com/content/view/2428/2/</ref>
• Eric Martin EasyCare 100 practice at Lowe's Motor Speedway (October 9, 2002)<ref>CNNSI.com - SI Online - Denise N. Maloof - On NASCAR - CNNSI.com's Denise N. Maloof: Spotters on the spot - Wednesday October 16, 2002 03:34 PM</ref>

Championship Results

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See also

• List of ARCA drivers
• 2010 in ARCA Remax Series
• 2009 in ARCA Remax Series
• 2008 in ARCA Remax Series
• 2007 in ARCA Remax Series
• 2006 in ARCA Remax Series
• 2005 in ARCA Remax Series
• Allen Crowe Memorial 100
• ARCA Sim Racing - Simulation video game based on the ARCA RE/MAX series

References

External links

• Official ARCA Website
• The Pit Lane - ARCA News and Rumors

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