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FACTSHEET - NEW JERSEY MOTORSPORTS PARK
RACE: The South Jersey Building Trades 150
TRACK: Thunderbolt Raceway (NJMP), 2.25-mile road course
WHEN: Sunday, September 13, 2009
LOCATION: Millville, New Jersey
RACE DISTANCE: 67 laps (150 miles)
EVENT: Event #18 of the 2009 ARCA RE/MAX Series
SANCTION/WEBSITE: ARCA (ARCAracing.com)
TRACK PR: Michelle Boger (856) 327-8000
ARCA PR: Don Radebaugh (419) 450-0611, Jackie L. Franzil (419) 574-2685
SCHEDULE: Sat, Sept 12: Practice 12:20-1:20 PM & 1:50-2:50 PM. Menards Pole Qualifying 4:30 PM. Sun, Sept 13: The South Jersey Building Trades 150 at 1:10 PM.
POSTED AWARDS: $162,565
ARCA OFFICIAL COMPANIES: RE/MAX International Inc, Aaron's Sales & Leasing, Ansell, Featherlite Trailers, Hoosier Racing Tire, Lincoln Welders, Mallory Ignition, Menards, Racing Electronics, Sunoco Race Fuels.
ARCA OFFICIAL PRODUCTS: Amkus Rescue Systems, ARCA Nation, Bilstein Shocks, CGS Imaging, Cometic Gasket, Eibach Springs, Fast Track High Performance Driving School, Flowmaster, G-Force Racing Gear, Klotz Synthetic Lubricants, Mo'sGold, Print Resources, University of Northwestern Ohio.
PARTICIPATING COMPANIES: BSR Products, Crane Cams, Ford Motor Company, Hutcherson-Pagan, Ilmor Engineering, Impact Racing, JE Pistons, Joyce Julius & Associates, Moroso, Performance Friction Brakes, RaceSafe Systems, Rhyne Racing Engines, Tesar Engineering, Toyota Racing Development.
INTERNET/RADIO: Live Timing & Scoring with Live Streaming Video/Audio (ARCA Racing Network/ARCAracing.com).
RECORDS: Qualifying - Andy Lally, 82.266 (98.461 mph), 2008. Race - Justin Allgaier, 54.188 mph, 2008
DEFENDING RACE WINNER: Justin Allgaier
DEFENDING POLESITTER: Andy Lally (82.266 (98.461 mph) *Track Record
TOTAL ARCA RE/MAX SERIES RACES RUN: 1
NO. OF ARS RACES WON FROM THE POLE: 0
NOTES OF INTEREST:
Versatile ARCA RE/MAX Series Goes Road Course Racing
Straight from back-to-back events at the Toledo Speedway short track Friday night and the DuQuoin State Fairgrounds mile-dirt Monday, the ARCA RE/MAX Series is going road course racing this Sunday, September 13 with The South Jersey Building Trades 150 at the Thunderbolt Raceway at the New Jersey Motorsports Park, the 18th event on the 2009 series tour. The event at NJMP is the fifth race in a grueling six-race stretch during which the series will race at six tracks in less than four weeks. This particular six-race leg, which includes two dirt tracks, two paved short tracks, one superspeedway and one road course, does well to depict the overall diversity of the tour. The race at NJMP will also be the 12th time the series has raced on a road course since 1958.
Lofton, Kligerman in Tight Championship Points Battle Headed to NJMP
Westmorland, California driver Justin Lofton leads 19-year-old Westport, Connecticut rookie Parker Kligerman by just 35 points headed into Sunday's race at NJMP. Lofton and Kligerman have swapped victory lane honors most of the year with Kligerman leading with a season-high 7 wins to Lofton's 5. Since Kligerman's victory lane reign began at Toledo back in mid-May, there have been no other winners on the tour other than Lofton and Kligerman with the exception of Joey Logano who won at Pocono on June 6. Kligerman, who honed many of his skills on road courses, made his ARCA RE/MAX Series debut at NJMP in 2008, qualifying 2nd and finishing 6th.
Round 2 of Bill France Four Crown at NJMP
NJMP marks the 2nd leg of the 2009 Bill France Four Crown Series, a separate point fund within the 21-race ARCA RE/MAX Series schedule that tests drivers on a challenging combination of venues, including a dirt track (The Southern Illinois 100 at the DuQuoin State Fairgrounds, September 7), a road course (The South Jersey Building Trades 150 at New Jersey Motorsports Park, September 13), a short track (The Kentuckiana Ford Dealers ARCA Fall Classic at Salem Speedway, September 19) and a speedway (The Kansas Lottery 150 at Kansas Speedway, October 1). Former Bill France Four Crown winners include Davey Allison, Frank Kimmel, Tim Steele, Bob Keselowski, Jason Jarrett and Bill Venturini to name a few.
Veteran Kimmel Impressive on Road Courses
9-time series champion Frank Kimmel has 6 road course starts - 5 with the ARCA RE/MAX Series and 1 with IROC. In 5 ARCA RE/MAX Series road course starts, Kimmel has 5 top-10 finishes with a career-best 2nd place finish on the Des Moines IA street course in 1994. Kimmel also finished 3rd at Watkins Glen, 7th & 9th at Heartland Park, and 10th at NJMP. Kimmel, who recently surpassed the 10,000 laps-led milestone (Has led 10,028 total) is currently 3rd in championship points trailing leader Lofton by 340 points.
Rookie Coulter on a Role; 4th in Points
As a rookie on the tour, Joey Coulter has spent much of the 2009 ARCA RE/MAX Series acclimating himself to racetracks that he has never competed on before. And although the Miami Springs, Florida, driver has never raced a full sized stock car on a road course, he's looking forward to this Sunday's South Jersey Building Trade 150 at New Jersey Motorsports Park because it reminds him of his racing roots, which began in Go Kart competition. "I can say I've at least been on a road course once," said Coulter. "I raced Go-Karts for six years. Obviously it's not a car and I don't have to shift but I think some of the techniques as far as learning the track are going to be somewhat similar. I guess it's just another first. It's the race I've been looking forward to probably close to the most all year." Coulter heads into NJMP 4th in points on the strength of two consecutive podium finishes (second at Toledo Speedway on September 4 and third at DuQuoin on September 7) and a Menards Pole Award presented by Ansell at Toledo.
Cousins Compete at NJMP
Chase Mattioli and Nick Igdalsky, grandsons of Pocono patriarchs' Dr. Joe & Rose Mattioli, have filed entries for The South Building Trades 150 at NJMP. While the race at NJMP will mark Mattioli's 11th career ARCA RE/MAX Series start, it will be the first series start of Igdalsky. Mattioli is entered in a Bobby Hamilton, Jr. Dodge while Igdalsky is entered in an Andy Belmont Racing Ford. Both Mattioli and Igdalsky are veterans of the Grand-Am Koni Challenge tour.
Veteran Bob Schacht Returns
ARCA RE/MAX Series veteran Bob Schacht has also filed an entry for the race at NJMP. The 59-year-old driver, in 181 career start, has 19 series wins among 55 top-five finishes and 92 top-10s. In addition to 16 career poles and 1,887 laps-led in 56 races, the veteran driver has fielded top-notch equipment for a variety of drivers over the years. However, in an effort to field cars for others, the Chicago-born-and-raised racer hasn't driven much over the last decade. In fact, in the last nine years, Schacht has just one ARCA RE/MAX Series start - make it two counting Sunday's South Jersey Building Trades 150 at NJMP. Schacht won an ARCA race on the now defunct St. Louis Int'l road course in 1986.
