Category: ARCA

Menards 250 Set For Saturday Night, July 10

After a one-year hiatus, the full-bodied stock cars of the ARCA Menards Series return to Elko Speedway on Saturday, July 10 for the Menards 250. The Eau Claire, Wisconsin-based home improvement warehouse chain, which has served as the presenting sponsor and now the entitlement sponsor of the series for the past 13 years, is based just 90 minutes east of Elko, which is located just south of the Twin Cities in central Minnesota.

The ARCA Menards Series, a NASCAR touring division, competes at a wide range of venues, from the 2.66-mile high-banked Talladega Superspeedway where speeds routinely exceed 190 miles per hour, to road courses, one-mile dirt tracks and paved short tracks. Elko Speedway, at 0.375 miles in length, is the shortest track on the series’ 2021 schedule.

“We are thrilled the ARCA Menards Series is returning to Elko Speedway,” said Jeff Abbott, promotions manager for Menards. “We sponsored the race in 2019 and have had several of our vendor partners as sponsors in previous years. We love it because it’s the type of short track racing that has been the hallmark of the ARCA Menards Series since 1953. There’s someone trading paint just about every lap, and we’ve seen some of the most exciting finishes over the years too. It’s a great place to see a great race and we’re looking forward to seeing all of our upper Midwest racing fans back at the track again.”

The Menards 250 will feature a full day of on-track activity starting with one hour of practice for the ARCA Menards Series at 3:30 pm local time, followed by General Tire Pole Qualifying at 5:30 pm local, local division feature races at 6 pm local, and a 45-minute on-track autograph session at 7:45 pm local. The night’s 250-lap feature event will go green shortly after 9 pm local time.

“The Menards 250 at Elko Speedway has turned into a huge event in the upper Midwest,” said race promoter Bob Sargent, president of Track Enterprises. “Not only do the fans get to see 250 laps of great side-by-side, fender-banging action with the ARCA Menards Series cars they also will see three of the track’s regular divisions with over 300 laps of feature racing for the night.”

Previous ARCA Menards Series winners at Elko include Brennan Poole in 2012, Frank Kimmel in 2013, Grant Enfinger in 2014, Austin Theriault in 2017, Gus Dean in 2018, and Chandler Smith in 2019. Kimmel and Theriault both won en route to respective championships; Enfinger and Smith both won prior to making the leap into the NASCAR Camping World Truck Series. Current series championship contenders Corey Heim, the current points leader, and Ty Gibbs, currently second in the standings, finished fifth and second respectively in 2019.

The Menards 250 will also be the third round of the 2021 Sioux Chief Showdown, a series-within-the-series that allows drivers younger than 18 years of age to compete for a championship. The race will be televised live on MAVTV starting at 10 pm ET/9 pm local.

For ticket information, please visit TrackEnterprises.com. For updated event information, please visit ARCARacing.com.

About ARCA: The Automobile Racing Club of America (ARCA), founded in 1953 by John and Mildred Marcum in Toledo, Ohio and acquired by NASCAR in April 2018, is the leading grassroots stock car sanctioning body in the United States. Bridging the gap between NASCAR’s top three national touring series and weekly racing all across the country, the organization is scheduled to administer more than 100 events in multiple racing series in 2020, including the ARCA Menards Series, ARCA Menards Series East, ARCA Menards Series West, the ARCA/CRA Super Series, and the ARCA Midwest Tour, plus weekly racing at Toledo and Flat Rock Speedways.  For more information about ARCA visit www.arcaracing.com, or follow ARCA on Facebook (@ARCARacing) and Twitter (@ARCA_Racing).

About Menards: A family-owned and run company started in 1958, Menards is recognized as the retail home center leader of the Midwest with 236 stores in 15 states.  Menards is truly a one-stop shop for all of your home improvement needs featuring a full-service lumberyard and everything you need to plan a renovation or build a home, garage, cabin, shed, deck, fence or post frame building.  You’ll find a large selection of lumber, roofing, siding, construction blocks, trusses, doors and windows, plus cabinets, appliances, countertops, flooring, lighting, paint, plumbing supplies and more.  To complete the job, Menards has quality hand tools, power tools, fasteners, electrical tools plus storage options and supplies for everyone from the weekend warrior to the pro! 

Menards has what you need to complete your outdoor projects and keep your yard in tip-top shape including mowers, trimmers, blowers, pressure washers and more, plus a beautiful garden center stocked with plants, shrubs, trees, landscaping tools, grass seed, fertilizer options, outdoor décor and patio furniture.  Menards also has everyday essentials like health & beauty products, housewares, pet and wildlife supplies, automotive items and even groceries.  And at Christmas, an Enchanted Forest display area with impressive trees, lighting, decorations, ornaments, inflatables and more. 

Menards is known for friendly Customer Service and as the place to “Save Big Money” with low prices every day, and sales too!  For more information, please visit Menards.com to learn about our store locations, offerings and services.

About Track Enterprises: Track Enterprises is a premier racing promotions company based in Macon, IL. In addition to operating weekly racing facilities in Macon, IL and Paducah, KY, Track Enterprises also promotes over regional and national touring series events including the NASCAR Camping World Truck Series event (Knoxville Raceway, Knoxville, IA), numerous ARCA Menards Series events and USAC National and regional touring events, and The World of Outlaws Series race events.

Young’s Motorsports | ARCA Menards Series
Charlotte (N.C.) Motor Speedway | General Tire 150
Fast Facts

No. 02 Young’s Motorsports Team:
Driver: Toni Breidinger
Primary Partner(s): HairClub®
Manufacturer: Chevrolet SS
Crew Chief: Ryan “Pickle” London
2021 Driver Points Position: 10th
2021 Owner Points Position: 16th
Chassis Intel: YMS Chassis No. 99; last competed at Kansas Speedway (Start: 13th | Finish: 12th
Engine: Ilmor Racing Technologies

Notes of Interest:

She’s Back: Former United States Auto Club (USAC) standout Toni Breidinger has joined Young’s Motorsports for the 2021 ARCA Menards Series season.

Breidinger has competed in four ARCA events thus far in 2021 with hopes of a full-season slate aboard the No. 02 Young’s Motorsports Chevrolet SS.

In addition to ARCA, Breidinger also plans to compete in the NASCAR Camping World Truck Series this season with a detailed schedule to be announced at a later date.

Welcome To The Team: This weekend at Charlotte (N.C.) Motor Speedway, Breidinger and Young’s Motorsports welcome HairClub® as the primary marketing partner of her No. 02 Chevrolet SS.

Founded in 1976, HairClub® is North America’s number one provider of hair regrowth, replacement, and restoration solutions. For over 40 years, HairClub® has helped 600,000+ people regrow, replace, or restore hair that they love.

HairClub® has over 120 locations throughout the United States, Canada, and Puerto Rico, and is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Tokyo-based Aderans Co. Ltd., the world’s leading provider of total hair loss solutions.

Kansas Speedway | Dutch Boy 150 Race Recap: In her most recent ARCA Menards Series race, Breidinger continued to make huge gains and continued to turn heads with her competitiveness aboard the No. 02 Young’s Motorsports Chevrolet SS.

After finishing 12th in her second career superspeedway race, Breidinger returned to an intermediate track for just the second time in her career. After starting 13th, she maintained a solid pace that kept her out of trouble and onto another 12th place result.

The finish moved her to ninth in the ARCA Menards Series standings after four races.

For the first time in 2021, Breidinger at Kansas was the only female competitor in the event.

Toni Breidinger ARCA Charlotte Motor Speedway Stats: Saturday night’s General Tire 150 will mark Breidinger’s first ARCA Menards Series race at the 1.5-mile Charlotte Motor Speedway.

Toni Breidinger ARCA Intermediate Track Stats: At ARCA Menards Series tracks classified as a speedway, Breidinger has four starts throughout her career with an average finish of 18.0.

To The Point(s): Entering Charlotte, Breidinger sits 10th in the championship standings with 15 races remaining in the 2021 ARCA Menards Series season.

78 points separate Breidinger from fifth in the championship standings currently held by D.L. Wilson.

Young’s Motorsports’ No. 02 team also secures 16th in the ARCA car owner standings.

Media Frenzy: Outside the race car, Breidinger continues to attract the attention of publications and news outlets throughout the country.

Some of her highlights during Women’s History Month include being featured of FOX Sport’s NASCAR Race Hub and the award-winning talk show Ellen hosted by television mogul Ellen DeGeneres.

Since her announcement joining Young’s Motorsports, she has been featured in several top outlets recently including the New York Post, The Real, POPSUGAR Fitness, The Today Show, About Her, CNN, People Magazine, talkSport 2, Us Weekly, SpeedFreaks, Hemmings, Autoblog and NowThis.

She’s Not New: While Breidinger is new to Young’s Motorsports, she is not new to the ARCA Menards Series. In 2018 she competed in three ARCA races and finished a career-best 10th at Madison (Wisc.) International Speedway after starting 13th.

She additionally made starts at World Wide Technology Raceway at Gateway and Chicagoland (Ill.) Speedway, respectively.

Overall, she has six career ARCA Menards Series starts with one top-10, three top-15s and five top-20 finishes. She carries an average finish of 16.7 in ARCA competition.

Just The Facts: Breidinger is a 19-time USAC winner and finished fourth in the championship standings in the Carolina Pro Late Model Series in 2020 with DLP Motorsports.

Follow on Social Media: For more on Toni Breidinger, please visit, tonibreidinger.com, like her on Facebook (tonibreidingerracing) and follow on Instagram (tonibreidinger) and Twitter (@tonibreidinger).

For more on Young’s Motorsports, please visit YoungsMotorsports.com, like them on Facebook (Young’s Motorsports) and follow on Instagram (youngsmotorsports) and Twitter (@youngsmtrsports).

Toni Breidinger Pre-Race Quotes:

On Charlotte Motor Speedway: “I am excited to race at Charlotte Motor Speedway this weekend. It will be my first time racing at this track, but I’m hoping my experience on the bigger tracks, including my most recent start at Kansas Speedway will prove to be helpful.

“My goal for Charlotte is to get all the laps in and learn more about the mile-and-a-half tracks.”

On HairClub® partnership: “My marketing partner this weekend is HairClub which is also a partner with my Young’s Motorsports teammate Spencer Boyd.

“They are a great brand to have on board for the demographic of NASCAR and I’m honored to represent them in such a big race like Charlotte.”

On her recent string of solid ARCA finishes: “Every race I set a goal and want to get as much seat time as possible and not only finish the race but complete as many laps as I can.

“I cannot thank the Young’s Motorsports team enough for their hard work and I hope we are able to continue to build off our last few consistent races on Saturday night.”
Race Information:

The General Tire 150 (100 laps | 150 miles) is the sixth of 20 races on the 2021 ARCA Menards Series schedule. A combined practice and qualifying session begins on Sat., May 29 with a forty-five-minute practice session from 4:30 p.m. – 5:15 p.m. The race is set to take the green flag shortly after 7:00 p.m. The event will be televised live on FOX Sports 1 (FS1), while ARCARacing.com will stream live timing and scoring throughout the entire weekend festivities. All times are local (ET).

Saturday, May 29
Track: Charlotte Motor Speedway, 1.5-mile quad oval
Race: 6 of 20
Event: General Tire 150 (100 laps, 150 miles)

Schedule

Practice/Qualifying: 4:30 p.m. ET
Race: 7:00 p.m. ET (FOX Sports 1)

Thad Moffitt, No. 46 CleanPacs/Aqua ChemPacs Ford Fusion

• Moffitt enters his sixth race of the 2021 ARCA Menards Series season on Saturday night at Charlotte (N.C.) Motor Speedway.
• The Trinity, N.C. native is coming off of a fifth-place run at Toledo (Ohio) Speedway last Saturday. The result marked his second top-five and fourth top-10 of the season and moved him into third in the series standings, 42 points behind first place.
• Despite it being the closest track to Moffitt’s home on the series schedule, he only has one career start at the 1.5-mile quad oval with a 10th-place run in 2019.
• This weekend will be crew chief Derek Smith’s first time atop the box at Charlotte.
• Click here for Moffitt’s career statistics.
• Moffitt on Charlotte: “I am really looking forward to hitting the track at Charlotte on Saturday. Our mile-and-a-half program has a lot of speed and we are continuing to get better every week as a team. I felt pretty confident after the ARCA test a few weeks ago, so hopefully the testing translates into the race and we give CleanPacs and Aqua ChemPacs another great run.”

Jack Wood, No. 21 Chevy Accessories Chevrolet
Charlotte Motor Speedway Stats

• No prior starts at Charlotte Motor Speedway. 2021 ARCA Menards Series Stats
• Starts: 4, Best start: 4, Best finish: 4, Top 5s: 1, Top 10s: 2

Notes:

• Jack Wood will be pulling double duty this week at Charlotte Motor Speedway, competing in Friday night’s NASCAR Camping World Truck Series race in the No. 24 Silverado for GMS as well as Saturday night’s General Tire 150.
• Wood and the No. 21 team will compete with chassis no. 410 this weekend at Charlotte. This is the same chassis that Wood placed fourth with at Kansas and the 21 team earned two top-five finishes with in 2020.
• Wood enters the Kansas weekend eighth in series points.

Quote:

“We tested at Charlotte earlier this month and we found some speed in our Chevy. I think it will be a difficult race because Charlotte is a lot more challenging compared to Kansas, but running the truck race Friday night will definitely help me be prepared for Saturday’s ARCA race. I’m excited to get back to the track with my GMS team.”

ABOUT GMS RACING

GMS Racing competes full-time in the NASCAR Camping World Truck Series with drivers Sheldon Creed, Zane Smith, Tyler Ankrum and Chase Purdy. The team also competes in the ARCA Racing Series with Jack Wood. Since the team began in 2014, GMS Racing won the 2016 and 2020 Camping World Trucks Championship, the 2015 ARCA Racing Series championship as well as the 2019 & 2020 ARCA East championship and 2020 Sioux Chief Showdown Championship. GMS has grown to occupy several buildings located in Statesville, N.C. The campus also includes operations for GMS Fabrication. More information can be found at https://www.gmsracing.net/

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Saturday, May 22
Track: Toledo Speedway, .5-mile oval
Race: 5 of 20
Event: Herr’s Potato Chips 200 (200 laps, 100 miles)

Thad Moffitt, No. 46 Clean Harbors Ford Fusion

Start: 5th
Finish: 5th

• Moffitt started the Herr’s Potato Chips 200 from the fifth position and quickly moved into fourth on the opening restart. On lap 36, he would be scored in the fifth position and was running there when the caution waved on lap 75 for the first pit break.
• The North Carolina driver reported that his Clean Harbors Fusion was too free on entry and exit. He would pit for right side tires, fuel, trackbar and wedge adjustments.
• Moffitt restarted in fifth as the last car on the lead lap. He battled hard throughout the second stint of the race and managed to maneuver into fourth on lap 121 and was scored there when the caution waved for the second pit break on lap 125.
• The No. 46 came down pit road for four tires, fuel and further adjustments to aid with the balance of the car. Moffitt restarted the race in fourth with 70 laps remaining. He lost one position to fifth on lap 151 and held steady there for the remaining 24 laps.
• The fifth-place result is Moffitt’s second top-five and fourth top-10 finish of the 2021 ARCA Menards Series season.

Next event: General Tire 150 at Charlotte Motor Speedway in Concord, North Carolina on May 29 at 7 p.m. ET.

Saturday night’s ARCA Menards Series Herr’s Potato Chips 200 at Toledo Speedway will be a huge step in the return to normalcy for sports fans across northwest Ohio and southeast Michigan. It will mark the first time since the pandemic started in March 2020 that a national-level sporting event will take place in northwest Ohio with significantly reduced Covid restrictions. ARCA held four races at the track in 2020, three of which were held with no spectators. The fourth was limited to just 15 percent capacity.

“It has been a long process to get here, but with the climbing vaccination rates in Ohio, Governor Mike DeWine has seen fit to relax restrictions, which Toledo Speedway and our fans appreciate,” said ARCA president Ron Drager. “We wish we were able to open to full capacity, but we still expect a great crowd on hand on Saturday night. We want everyone to come out and enjoy a night at the races, just like we have done for 60 years at Toledo Speedway. We hope to see a lot of excited race fans when we fire the engines for the Herr’s Potato Chips 200 on Saturday night. We’ll certainly be excited to see them back too.”

In 2020, Toledo Speedway hosted the first national-level sporting event in Ohio once the total lockdown ended when the ARCA Menards Series East raced at the half-mile oval last June. That race was held with essential personnel only; no fans were permitted to attend. Ohio’s attendance restrictions officially end on June 2. Fans who attend Saturday night’s race will only need to keep an appropriate social distance in common areas like grandstands and on the concourse. Masks are not mandatory in outdoor areas but are in any indoor areas, such as restrooms and concession stands.

“It was definitely eerie to be at the track and see racers competing in front of empty grandstands,” said ARCA communications manager Charles Krall. “There were some very die-hard fans who came to the front gate and looked over the fence just to catch a glimpse of racecars on the track. It’s a reminder to me what great fans we have, and we’re all looking forward to seeing many of them here on Saturday night.”

Practice for the Herr’s 200 will start Saturday’s on-track action at 4:15 pm, with the track’s Factory Stock division to follow with a 20-lap feature at 5 pm. General Tire Pole Qualifying will set the starting lineup for the Herr’s Potato Chips 200 at 6 pm ET, followed by a 25-lap feature event for the speedway’s Late Model Sportsman division. Pre-race activities for the Herr’s 200 start at 7:30 pm, with the green flag expected shortly after 8 pm ET. Advance discount tickets are available at Toledo-area Menards stores through Friday, May 21 for just $20, a $10 savings. A limited number of tickets will also be available at the front gate on raceday.

The Herr’s Potato Chips 200 will also be televised live on MAVTV and streamed live on TrackPass on NBC Sports Gold.

Sprecher Brewing Company, Track Enterprises, and the Automobile Racing Club of America (ARCA) announced today that Sprecher® Craft Sodas will sponsor the ARCA Menards Series race event at The Milwaukee Mile.

The Sprecher 150 is scheduled for Sunday, August 29 at 2:00 p.m. CT, with live flag-to-flag broadcast coverage on MavTV Motorsports Network. The race will also be streamed on the NBC Sports Gold “TrackPass” streaming service.

“Sprecher is proud to sponsor this event in Milwaukee, our hometown,” said Sharad Chadha, CEO of Sprecher Brewery. “In fact, Sprecher is Milwaukee’s Original Craft Brewery and the birthplace of Sprecher’s award-winning craft sodas. Sponsoring this great race and bringing national stock car racing back to the Mile with the ARCA Menards Series is one way we can pay tribute to race fans and Sprecher fans in Milwaukee.”

The Sprecher 150 will be a points race for the national ARCA Menards Series, as well as a Sioux Chief Showdown championship event and a points race for the ARCA Menards Series East. Series officials are expecting cars from all three ARCA Menards Series touring divisions to participate.

“We are excited to partner with Sprecher and Track Enterprises to bring the ARCA Menards Series back to the Milwaukee Mile Speedway and southeastern Wisconsin in 2021,” said Jeff Abbott, promotions manager and spokesperson for Menards. “Milwaukee is a core, home state market for Menards, and The Mile is a great, historic racetrack.”

The ARCA Menards Series last competed at the Milwaukee Mile in 2005 through 2007. The series has visited “The Mile” five times, with ten-time series champion Frank Kimmel winning two of the last three races at the historic Milwaukee oval.

“We’ve been working on bringing the ARCA Menards Series back to Milwaukee for several years,” commented Bob Sargent, President of Track Enterprises. “Now, with the support of Sprecher Craft Soda, we are looking forward to hosting all of the great race fans in Wisconsin as the ARCA cars bring major league stock car racing back to the historic Milwaukee Mile.”

ABOUT SPRECHER BREWING COMPANY

Established in 1985, Sprecher is Milwaukee’s Original Craft Brewery. Sprecher brews over 20 different craft sodas as well as 12 craft beers, including the world famous Sprecher Root Beer. Sprecher Craft Sodas are fire-brewed and made with honey for a unique bold flavor. Sprecher’s Craft Sodas are made in Milwaukee and now sold in over 20 States.

ABOUT TRACK ENTERPRISES

Track Enterprises is a premier racing promotions company based in Macon, IL. In addition to operating weekly racing facilities in Macon, IL and Paducah, KY, Track Enterprises also promotes over regional and national touring series events including the NASCAR Camping World Truck Series event (Knoxville Raceway, Knoxville, IA), numerous ARCA Menards Series events and USAC National and regional touring events, and The World of Outlaws Series race events.

ABOUT MENARDS

Menards home improvement stores are well known throughout the Midwest for a complete selection of high-quality, name brand merchandise and all the tools, materials and supplies for any job. Menards offers full-service lumberyards, beautiful garden centers, name brand appliances, pet & wildlife products and even a line of convenience groceries to provide a one-stop shopping experience. Whether just needing a light bulb, gallon of paint or household supplies, or building a deck, fence or new home, there is something for everyone at Menards whether a beginning do-it-yourselfer or more experienced contractor.

A family-owned and run company started in 1958; Menards currently operates 305 stores located in 14 Midwestern states. Menards is known throughout the home improvement industry as the low-price leader; it’s no wonder their famous slogan – “SAVE BIG MONEY” – is so widely known and easy to remember. Menards does things right – the company’s strength and success can be seen in the well-stocked and maintained stores, the lowest prices in town, and the way Guests are always treated like family.

ABOUT THE MILWAUKEE MILE

The Milwaukee Mile is a one mile-long oval race track in the central United States, located on the grounds of the Wisconsin State Fair Park in West Allis, Wisconsin, a suburb west of Milwaukee. The venerable one-mile oval is the oldest operating major speedway in the world, having hosted automobile races since 1903. Its grandstand and bleachers seated approximately 37,000 spectators.

ABOUT ARCA

The Automobile Racing Club of America (ARCA) is among the leading and most versatile auto racing sanctioning bodies in the country. Founded in 1953 by John and Mildred Marcum, the organization administers more than 100 events each year in multiple racing series, including the ARCA Racing Series presented by Menards, the ARCA/CRA Super Series and the ARCA Midwest Tour, plus weekly racing at Toledo and Flat Rock Speedways.

Saturday, May 22
Track: Toledo Speedway, .5-mile oval
Race: 5 of 20
Event: Herr’s Potato Chips 200 (200 laps, 100 miles)

Schedule
Practice: 4:15 p.m. ET
Qualifying: 6:00 p.m. ET
Race: 8:00 p.m. ET (MAVTV)

Thad Moffitt, No. 46 Clean Harbors Ford Fusion

• Moffitt enters his fifth race of the 2021 ARCA Menards Series campaign on Saturday at Toledo (Ohio) Speedway. He is coming off a sixth-place finish at Kansas Speedway in Kansas City, which marked his third consecutive top-10 this season.
• With one top-five and three top-10 finishes, the No. 46 Fusion sits fifth in the series standings, 38 points behind point leader Corey Heim.
• Moffitt has four career appearances at Toledo with two top-10 finishes. He finished 12th and eighth when ARCA visited the .5-mile speedway for a doubleheader in 2020.
• Clean Harbors returns to the team this weekend as a full primary partner. The red and blue colors last appeared on the car at Daytona (Fla.) International Speedway in February in a co-branded paint scheme with CleanPacs.
• Click here for Moffitt’s career statistics.
• Moffitt on Toledo: “I’m really excited to get to Toledo. We’ve had really good speed there in the past, but just haven’t had any luck fall our way. I plan to be patient and let the race come to me and see where we stack up. Our DGR Fusions have been fast as of late and I look forward carrying that into this weekend.”

TOLEDO, Oh: On the heels of their top-five finish in this past Friday afternoon’s ARCA Menards Series East (AMSE) race at Dover (Del.) International Speedway, Rette Jones Racing rides the momentum with new driver Adam Lemke for this weekend’s premier ARCA Menards Series race at Toledo Speedway.

The hometown track of the ARCA Menards Series may be new to Lemke, a native of Hollister, Calif., but his Mark Rette-led team thankfully has plenty of experience at the historic half-mile oval giving the 18-year-old confidence ahead of Saturday night’s race.

“I’m looking forward to this weekend with Rette Jones Racing,” said Lemke. “This is a great opportunity for myself and our marketing partners and I cannot wait to get to Toledo and get some laps with practice and then focus on qualifying and the race.”

Lemke has been winning championships for more than half his 18 years, starting in Quarter Midgets at age eight and rising through the Mini Cup ranks. In 2017, he graduated to the USAC Western Midget Series and finished second in overall points, and clinched the Rookie of the Year award.

In 2018, he won both the pavement and overall championships in the USAC Western Midget Series, as well as Rookie of the Year honors in the RPM Pro Late Model Series at Madera (Calif.) Speedway.

He graduated to the immensely popular and competitive CARS Tour where he joined JR Motorsports and competed in nine of the 11 CARS Late Model Stock events and finished 11th in the championship standings.

Most of Lemke’s racing efforts for 2020 were sidelined due to the COVID-19 pandemic, but he did compete in a few CARS Tour races, as well as competed for Hawk McCall Motorsports in the NASCAR Advanced Auto Parts Weekly Series.

Having a diverse background in short-track racing is likely to play into Lemke’s hands this weekend, but the teenager also knows that he has a lot to learn about the heavier “stock cars” that the ARCA Menards Series requires.

Still, Lemke has spent a lot of time digesting and preparing for Saturday night’s Herr’s Potato Chips 200, and hope his short-track mentality will be a benefit in his ARCA debut.

“I’ve been so fortunate and blessed to experience and win a lot in such a short amount of time,” added Lemke. “No doubt moving to the ARCA Menards Series and these heavier cars will be challenging, but that’s where I will lean on my team for guidance and direction.

“Our goal is a top-five finish at Toledo. And based on the speed the team has shown this year, I think we can not only accomplish that but contend for the win too.”

JRi Shocks will serve as the primary partner for the fifth ARCA Menards Series race of 2021.

In addition, Rette Jones Racing also welcomes Ford Performance, Goodridge Fluid Transfer Systems, Jones Group Demolition and Abatement, Mahle, Off-Axis Paint and Slick Products as associate marketing partners on the team’s No. 30 Ford Fusion.

“We are all looking forward to Toledo,” offered co-owner and crew chief Rette. “Adam has been extremely focused on preparing for his ARCA Menards Series debut. He has been asking a lot of questions, reviewing as much data as he can, and so on. Overall, we have a great notebook for Toledo.

“The team is feeling great right now after our Dover performance with Max (Gutiérrez) and we hope we are able to have that same type of performance on Saturday night with Adam.”

RJR is co-owned by Canadian entrepreneur and former race car driver Terry Jones.

Additional details on Lemke’s 2021 program are forthcoming.

For more on Adam Lemke, please visit like him on Facebook (Adam Lemke) or follow him on Twitter (@AdamLemkeRacing).

For more on Rette Jones Racing, please visit RetteJonesRacing.com, like them on Facebook (Rette Jones Racing) or follow them on Twitter (@RetteJones30).

The Herr’s Potato Chips 200 (200 laps | 100 miles) is the fifth of 20 races on the 2021 ARCA Menards Series schedule. Practice begins Sat., May 22 with a forty-five-minute practice session from 4:15 p.m. – 5:00 p.m. General Tire pole qualifying is set for a short time later at 6:00 p.m. The race is set to take the green flag shortly after 8:00 p.m. The event will be televised live on MAVTV and NBC Sports Gold Pass. ARCARacing.com will also stream live timing and scoring throughout the entire weekend festivities. All times are local (ET).

About Rette Jones Racing:

Headquartered in Mooresville, North Carolina, Rette Jones Racing (RJR) was founded in 2015 with the intent of building a successful racing operation built around the fundamentals of hard work and a never-give-up attitude.

Owned by racers Terry Jones and Mark Rette, RJR plan to field a full-time entry in 2021 in the ARCA Menards Series East, while also hopeful to field vehicles in the ARCA Menards Series and NASCAR Camping World Truck Series (NCWTS).

The winning ARCA East team also offers technical and setup intel as part of its technical alliance partnership program.