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FAST FACTS: General Tire 200 Music City 200 presented by Inspectra Thermal Solutions

www.arcaracing.com May 4, 2019

Where: Fairgrounds Speedway Nashville, Nashville, Tennessee
When: Saturday, May 4, 2019, 9 pm ET/8 pm CT
Television: MAVTV, Live
Track Length: 0.596 miles
Banking: 18 degrees
Most Recent Winner: Zane Smith, April 7, 2018, 79.200 miles per hour
Most Recent Pole Winner: Chandler Smith, April 7, 2018, 114.322 mph
Track Qualifying Record: Chandler Smith, April 7, 2018, 114.322 mph

  • The ARCA Menards Series returns to Fairgrounds Speedway Nashville for the 29th time since the first series event, a 300 lapper, was held in June, 1959. Nelson Stacy won on the way to his second of three series championships.
  • Six drivers have earned their first ARCA Menards Series win at Fairgrounds Speedway Nashville: Charles “Red” Farmer in 1970, Clifton “Coo Coo” Marlin in 1976, David Green in 1992, Josh Williams in 2016, Chad Finley in 2017, and Zane Smith in 2018.
  • Three drivers, Finley, Green, and Marlin, registered their only career victories at Fairgrounds Speedway.
  • Keith Ploughe, who won two races in his ARCA Menards Series career, is the only driver with multiple victories to earn his final career win at Fairgrounds Speedway.
  • The October 1981 race at Fairgrounds Speedway won by Bob Schacht served as the season opener for the 1982 season.
  • Three drivers have won three consecutive ARCA Menards Series races at Fairgrounds Speedway: Jack Bowsher won in 1963, 1964, and 1965; Andy Hampton won in 1967, 1968, and 1969, Bob Schacht won in 1981, 1982, and 1983. They are all tied for the most wins at Nashville.
  • Harold Smith, Bruce Gould, and Marvin Smith all have two wins a piece at Fairgrounds Speedway. Since race winners include Nelson Stacy, Don White, Keith Ploughe, Red Farmer, Ramo Stott, Woody Fisher, Coo Coo Marlin, Moose Myers, David Green, Grant Enfinger, Josh Williams, Chad Finley, and Zane Smith.
  • Three drivers with the surname Smith have won at Fairgrounds Speedway. Harold Smith is a two-time winner in 1961 and 1962, former series champion Marvin Smith won in 1978 and 1979, and Zane Smith won in 2018.
  • There was a nine-year gap between the 1983 race and the next ARCA Menards Series race at Fairgrounds Speedway. That 1992 event was won by David Green, who would go on to win the 1994 NASCAR Busch Series championship.
  • Following the 1992 race, the series would have a 23-year hiatus between races at Fairgrounds Speedway. The ARCA Menards Series returned in 2015 and Grant Enfinger won on his way to the series championship.
  • There have been five ARCA Menards Series races at Fairgrounds Speedway without a repeat winner. The last driver to repeat at Fairgrounds Speedway was Bob Schacht who won in 1982 and 1983.
  • The last driver to win back-to-back races at Nashville was Bob Schacht, who won three consecutive races in 1981, 1982, and 1983.
  • The first nine races at Nashville, from 1959, through May 1967, were 300 laps in length. The races from 1968 through 1971 were 200 laps long. The 1972 race was rained out. The races from 1973 through 1983 – with the exception of 1976 and 1982 – were 100 lap sprint races. The 1976 race was 250 laps and the 1982 race was 106 laps. The races since Fairgrounds Speedway was added back to the schedule in 2015 have all been 200 laps.
  • The record for most caution flags in an ARCA Menards Series race at Fairgrounds Speedway Nashville is eleven for a record 95 laps, set in 2017 in a race won by Chad Finley.
  • The record for fewest caution flags in an ARCA Menards Series race at Fairgrounds Speedway is two for a record nine laps set in 1982 in a race won by Bob Schacht.

 

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