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Fast Facts: General Tire 150 at Charlotte Motor Speedway

www.arcaracing.com May 23, 2019

 

FAST FACTS: General Tire 150 at Charlotte Motor Speedway

 

Where:                                    Charlotte Motor Speedway, Concord, North Carolina

When:                                     Thursday, May 23, 9 pm ET

Television:                             FS1, Live

Track Length:                        1.500 miles

Banking:                                24 degrees

Most Recent Winner:            Brandon Jones, May 24, 2018, 108.630 mph

Most Recent Pole Winner:   Todd Gilliland, May 24, 2018, 183.805 mph

Track Qualifying Record:    Ryan Newman, October 4, 2000, 186.780 mph

 

  • The ARCA Menards Series returns to Charlotte Motor Speedway for the 22nd time in the General Tire 150.
  • The first ARCA race at Charlotte was held on October 25, 1964. It was a 200-mile event and won by Curtis Turner in a Ford.
  • Fourteen drivers have won the previous 21 ARCA Menards Series races at Charlotte Motor Speedway. Tim Steele is the leader with four, Frank Kimmel has three, Kirk Shelmerdine has two, and Mark Thompson, Gary Laton, Adam Petty, Mario Gosselin, Lyndon Amick, Ryan Newman, Kerry Earnhardt, Jeff Fultz, Chad Blount, Ryan Hemphill, and Brandon Jones each have one.
  • Six drivers earned their first career ARCA Menards Series victory at Charlotte: Mark Thompson (May 17, 1997), Gary Laton (May 21, 1997), Adam Petty (September 20, 1998), Mario Gosselin (May 22, 1999), Lyndon Amick (May 20, 2000), and Jeff Fultz (May 18, 2002). For Amick, Fultz, Laton, and Petty, it would be their only career victory.
  • Three drivers who have earned multiple ARCA Menards Series wins have earned their last or more recent victory at Charlotte Motor Speedway: Curtis Turner in 1964, Kirk Shelmerdine in 2003, and Brandon Jones in 2018.
  • Tim Steele is the only driver to win consecutive races at Charlotte Motor Speedway. Steele earned three of his four Charlotte wins consecutively, winning all three series races held at the track in 1996.
  • There was a 14-year break between Ryan Hemphill’s win in 2004 and Brandon Jones’ win in 2018.
  • There have been ten races at Charlotte Motor Speedway without a repeat winner. The last driver to win multiple races at Charlotte was Kirk Shelmerdine, who won in 1999 and again in 2003.
  • Fourteen races at Charlotte were scheduled to be 100 miles, four races were scheduled to be 150 miles, one was scheduled for 250 miles, and two have been scheduled for the current 150-mile race distance.
  • Three ARCA races at Charlotte were shortened, the May 1999 race won by Mario Gosselin was shortened by four laps due to a time limit, the October 2001 race won by Kerry Earnhardt was shortened by four laps by a crash, and the October 2003 race won by Kirk Shelmerdine was shortened by 66 laps due to rain.
  • Only one ARCA race at Charlotte has been extended into overtime. The May 2004 race won by Ryan Hemphill was extended by six laps.
  • The record for most caution flags in an ARCA Menards Series race at Charlotte Motor Speedway is 10, twice, in October 1996 in a race won by Tim Steele, and in May 1997 in a race won by Gary Laton. The record for laps run under caution is 61 in that October 1996 race won by Tim Steele.
  • The record for fewest caution flags in an ARCA Menards Series race at Charlotte Motor Speedway is two, in the October 2001 race won by Kerry Earnhardt. The record for fewest laps run under caution is 13 in the May 1997 in a race won by Mark Thompson.