2008 ARCA RE/MAX Series Schedule

[muggle not]

It includes 2 dirt tracks and 1 road track. Rockingham is also on the schedule. Now if someone would only buy North Wilkesboro so ARCA could also add it to their schedule. This is a quite good schedule.

http://www.arcaracing.com/content/view/5909/2/

2008 ARCA RE/MAX Series Schedule

02-09 Daytona Speedway 2.500 mile paved track
04-13 Salem Speedway 0.555 mile paved track
04-19 Iowa Speedway 0.875 mile paved track
04-26 Kansas Speedway 1.500 mile paved track
05-04 Rockingham Speedway 1.000 mile paved track
05-10 Kentucky Speedway 1.500 mile paved track
05-18 Toledo Speedway 0.500 mile paved track
06-07 Pocono Raceway 2.500 mile paved track
06-13 Michigan Speedway 2.000 mile paved track
06-29 Cayuga Speedway Park 0.675 mile paved track
07-11 Kentucky Speedway 1.500 mile paved track
07-26 Berlin Raceway 0.400 mile paved track
08-02 Pocono Raceway 2.500 mile paved track
08-09 Nashville Superspeedway 1.330 mile concrete track
08-17 Illinois StateFairgrounds 1.000 mile clay track
09-01 DuQuoin StateFairgrounds 1.000 mile clay track
09-06 Chicagoland Speedway 1.500 mile paved track
09-13 Salem Speedway 0.555 mile paved track
09-28 New Jersey MotorsportsPark 2.300 mile paved track
10-03 Talladega Superspeedway 2.660 mile paved track
10-12 Toledo Speedway 0.500 mile paved track

[HCForums]

And the Rockingham race will be 500 miles, making the Carolina 500 the star event of the season. Hopefully SPEED finally decides to bring us the full season.

[kelvin88]

What made them decide to throw in some dirt tracks?

[muggle not]

Actually, they also had 2 dirt tracks in 2007.

[kelvin88]

I didn't know that. Do they use different cars for those races?

[HCForums]

Originally Posted by muggle not

Actually, they also had 2 dirt tracks in 2007.

They've been racing on dirt for quite some years now, the ARCA website says they've visited DuQuoin for the first time in 1983 and ran 24 races there.

[Craig]

I wish they'd add a couple of dirt tracks to the Cup schedule. It'd be a fantastic spectacle.

[ThePenguin]

Originally Posted by Craig

I wish they'd add a couple of dirt tracks to the Cup schedule. It'd be a fantastic spectacle.

But do you honestly think that they would do that? They would have to construct a whole new dirt track first, and all the teams would have to make a new type of car. I don't think that we will ever see the cup on dirt again, but it is good to see ARCA on dirt.

[Craig]

Sadly, probably not. But, why not? There's more than enough money in the sport to build a new venue and the ability to run on dirt could (should?) have been built into the CoT design.

[muggle not]

A thought............

ARCA has a very nice looking schedule. Nascar will probably be having a fire sale on the COY and ARCA will be the beneficiary. It will be inviting for more teams to try competing in ARCA. Nascar is losing fans in big numbers and it would not surprise me to see ARCA adding fans to their racing. Am I missing something??

[HCForums]

Yes, true. Most of the NASCAR teams are giving their cars to their teams in ARCA or selling them to other ARCA teams. And with adding a 500 mile event to the schedule it looks like ARCA wants to get serious.

But I do think the next couple of years will be very important to the series. The Sprint Cup moves to the COT next season and the Nationwide Series will get their own new car (based on COT) within a couple of years. ARCA can become star struck. With lots of cars and much success the series will be carrying a lot of momentum. But then what will they do. Will they become a separate stock car series, running the old Cup car, or eventually change to the new COT. In the last couple of years ARCA really became a feeder series, more than ever. Lots of Cup teams are running cars with their newest talents in it. I could see them leave just as easily as they came, thinking their talents could rather debut in Trucks or the new Nationwide car as they are much closer to the new Cup car.

Oh well, just some stupid thoughts of a fan. But that doesn't mean the future of the ARCA RE/MAX Series won't be interesting. I would love to see them get their own identity with their own car (old Cup one that is). Maybe that would attract some more drivers that will stick around for more than one season and finally give Kimmel and the new Kimmel Racing a run for their money.

[muggle not]

Speaking of Kimmel. Has anyone heard why Advance auto Parts dropped them as sponsor. I have been wondering why. Anyone know the gossip.

[kingfloopy]

It will be interesting to see how ARCA grows now that they will get an influx of higher quality cars. I prefer ARCA racing to NASCAR, the drivers are there more for the love of racing than for money. Plus, the majority of NASCAR Cup and Nationwide races are way too long and dull to hold my attention anymore, 4 plus hours is way to long for any race (excluding an endurance event) in my opinion. Beyond a couple Nationwide and CTS races, I haven't watched any this year. One thing I enjoyed about NASCAR a few years ago was that there were still some "underdog" drivers and teams like Geoffrey Bodine, Dave Marcis, etc. floating around. But with the qualifying and other changes they are pretty much non-existent anymore, and it takes a lot of the fun out of it for me.

J.D.

[jw1987]

Originally Posted by HCForums

And the Rockingham race will be 500 miles, making the Carolina 500 the star event of the season. Hopefully SPEED finally decides to bring us the full season.

The race is actually 500 Kilometers,312 laps.

Originally Posted by kelvin88

I didn't know that. Do they use different cars for those races?

The ARCA boys do a little modifications to their cars for dirt racing. I've seen photos with an opening for air in the hood,and they sometimes put something on the front grille of the car to keep the dirt clods from blocking up the radiator and causing the car to overheat.

Originally Posted by muggle not

Speaking of Kimmel. Has anyone heard why Advance auto Parts dropped them as sponsor. I have been wondering why. Anyone know the gossip.

Pork picked up the sponsorship in '06, then they were gone this year too. I'm not sure why myself. Maybe they felt they weren't getting the return on the investment they wanted.



On the subject of underdogs,it's another reason I enjoy ARCA. ARCA still has them.

[Sparky7]

An ARCA race at DuQuoin was televised a few years ago probably because Tony Stewart raced in it. It was one of the best races I've ever watched. It was wild to see those big old stock cars on dirt. Oh yeah.....Tony won.