 JOLIET,
IL (September 6, 2008) -- Scott Lagasse, Jr. (#25) passed Ricky Stenhouse, Jr.
(#99) after a late-race caution and held off both Stenhouse and Scott Speed in
a final two-lap sprint to the finish to win the Chicagoland ARCA 200.
The 27-year-old driver pitted several times for some major adjustments to
tighten up his car before motoring his way to the front en route to the win. It
was Lagasse's second career win in the ARCA RE/MAX Series.
Forty-three cars were entered for Saturday's race with 41 cars posting times
in qualifying. Ricky Stenhouse, Jr. set a new track record in qualifying when
he circled the 1.5-mile track in 29.995 seconds (180.030 mph). It was the
eighth track record set in 17 events contested this year in the ARCA RE/MAX
Series.
The 136-lap race had nine leaders among three different drivers. Leaders
included; Ricky Stenhouse, Jr. 1-17, 36-49, 82-113, 118-121 (67 laps), Scott
Speed 18-35, 50-81, 114 (51 laps) and Scott Lagasse 115-117, 122-136 (18
laps).
A late-race caution set up a final two-lap sprint to the finish with Lagasse
taking the win by .308 seconds over Ricky Stenhouse, Jr.
Scott Speed finished in third after leading 51 laps. Speed was followed by
Justin Allgaier and Jesse Smith in fourth and fifth, respectively.
Bryan Silas, after starting 28th and going a lap down early, fought back to
finish sixth followed by Ben Stancill, Justin Lofton, Jeremy Clements and Ken
Butler III to round out the list of top ten finishers.
The race was also slowed six times for cautions for a total of 43
laps.
As the series enters the final four events of the 2008 season, Scott Speed's
lead (4125) in the driver standings is now just 50 points over Ricky
Stenhouse, Jr. (4075). Matt Carter is in third place with 3965 points followed
by Frank Kimmel (3880) and Justin Allgaier (3860).
The ARCA RE/MAX Series travels from Chicagoland's 1.5-mile superspeedway to
Salem (IN) Speedway's .555-mile short track this weekend for the Eddie
Gilstrap Motors 200. The race is scheduled for Saturday night, September 13th.
Hoosier Racing Tire Corp. is proud to be the exclusive tire provider for the
ARCA RE/MAX Series.
All ARCA RE/MAX Series events are serviced out of Hoosier headquarters
located in Lakeville, IN.
Hoosier
staff on hand for the event included; Ken Kolter, Rick Tostevin, David Wroblewski,
Chad Wright, Mike Haenes, Dave Reppert, Eriks Bers, Jim Bartholomew and Jeff
Yute.
For complete race results and more information about the ARCA RE/MAX Series
visit www.arcaracing.com.
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