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FAST FACTS: Kentuckiana Ford Dealers Fall Classic 200 at Salem Speedway

www.arcaracing.com September 14, 2019

 

FAST FACTS: Kentuckiana Ford Dealers Fall Classic 200

 

Where:                                    Salem Speedway, Salem, Indiana

When:                                     7 pm ET, Saturday, September 14, 2019

Television:                             MAVTV, Live

Track Length:                        0.555-miles

Most Recent Winner:            Michael Self, April 14, 2019, 89.887 miles per hour

Most Recent Pole Winner:   Carson Hocevar, April 13, 2019, 117.027 miles per hour

Track Qualifying Record:     Gary Bradberry, 119.035 mph, 1994

 

  • The Kentuckiana Ford Dealers Fall Classic 200 will be the second visit the ARCA Menards Series will make at Salem Speedway in 2019, and the 106th time in series history dating back to Jack Harrison’s win on October 9, 1955.
  • Jack Harrison won three of the first four ARCA Menards Series races at Salem. He won eleven times overall before losing his life to persistent health issues late in 1957.
  • Sixty-three drivers have won ARCA Menards Series races at Salem. Frank Kimmel leads all drivers with nine, followed by Jack Bowsher with seven, Les Snow, Ramo Stott, and Tim Steele each have four, Jack Harrison, Andy Hampton, Bruce Gould, Dave Dayton, and Tom Hessert III each have three, Bobby Watson, Benny Parsons, Ron Hutcherson, Bob Strait, Ken Schrader, Justin Allgaier, Grant Enfinger, and Christopher Bell all have a pair of wins. Single-race winners at Salem include Herschel White, Troy Ruttman, Nelson Stacy, Don White, Dick Freeman, Earl Balmer, Jim Cushman, Butch Hartman, Elmer Davis, Roy Wathen, Iggy Katona, Bobby Allison, A. Arnold, Lamarr Marshall, Moose Myers, Brad Malcuit, Marvin Smith, Bob Keselowski, Larry Moore, Bob Brevak, Bob Schacht, Scott Neal, Tobey Butler, Bill Baird, Tracy Leslie, Jason Jarrett, Chad Blount, Joey Miller, Billy Venturini, Blake Bjorklund, Brian Keselowski, Patrick Sheltra, Justin Lofton, Steve Arpin, Dakoda Armstrong, Brennan Poole, Chris Buescher, Alex Bowman, Kyle Benjamin, Dalton Sargeant, Austin Theriault, Christian Eckes, Chandler Smith, and Michael Self.
  • Nineteen drivers have earned their first ARCA Menards Series victory at Salem: Bobby Allison, Steve Arpin, Earl Balmer, Christopher Bell, Blake Bjorklund, Tobey Butler, Jim Cushman, Elmer Davis, Dave Dayton, Christian Eckes, Butch Hartman, Shelby Howard, Ron Hutcherson, Larry Moore, Scott Neal, Brennan Poole, Patrick Sheltra, and Billy Venturini. For Allison, Bjorklund, Butler, Davis, Moore, Neal, and Venturini, it was their only career win.
  • Thirteen drivers earned their final, or most recent, career win at Salem: A. Arnold, Bruce Gould, Andy Hampton, Jack Harrison, Shelby Howard, Jason Jarrett, Tracy Leslie, Justin Lofton, Brad Malcuit, Lamarr Marshall, Joey Miller, Ken Schrader, and Roy Wathen.
  • Salem Speedway is the sister track to Winchester Speedway in Indiana, which although not a part of the ARCA Menards Series plays host to the ARCA/CRA Super Series twice each season. There was a third sister track as well, Dayton Speedway, which officially closed in 1981 and was eventually consumed by and now lays under a landfill on the outskirts of Dayton.
  • On the most recent census taken in 2010, there were no witches living in Salem, Indiana. Maybe a few mean old ladies, but no actual witches.
  • The record for the most cautions in an ARCA Menards Series race at Salem is 13, set in April 1998 and matched in April 2004, September 2004, and September 2005.
  • The record for most caution laps at Salem is 109, in a 500-lap race, set in October 1989 in a race won by Bob Schacht.
  • The record for fewest cautions in an ARCA Menards Series race at Salem is one, for eight laps, set in September 2014 in a race won by Tom Hessert III.
  • The record for the most lead changes in an ARCA Menards Series race at DuQuoin is 14 set in September, 1995 in a race won by Tim Steele.

 

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