|| *Comments on the 2009 ARCA Re/Max 250:* View the most recent comment <#18> | Post a comment <#post> Tweet 1. Jeremy Siple posted: 04.24.2009 - 10:14 pm Rate this comment: (1) (0) Awesome, I mean awesome run by 74 year old James Hylton! 15th and still on the lead lap! He's still got it! 2. Billy Kingsley posted: 04.25.2009 - 2:28 am Rate this comment: (0) (0) According to the Speed TV broadcast, James Hylton led one lap. Why does this show him not having led? 3. Dodge posted: 04.25.2009 - 2:56 pm Rate this comment: (1) (0) According to ARCARACING.COM, James was taken to a hospital right after the race where he was kept overnight. As of this typing, no update on his health except that he got out under his own power. 4. Jeremy Siple posted: 04.26.2009 - 12:52 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) James Hylton's sponsor in this race was Radon.com 5. Jeff Wagoner posted: 04.26.2009 - 3:05 pm Rate this comment: (1) (0) Hylton and a couple others were taken to the hospital for heat exhaustion and dehydration. Sitting in the car during that red flag didn't help. 6. Destiny posted: 04.26.2009 - 10:37 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) wow, Alli's run was great and finished 6th. 7. WallaceFan posted: 04.26.2009 - 11:37 pm Rate this comment: (1) (0) Hylton was released and is fine. When a 74 year old drives 250 miles in heat like this, its probably a good idea to check him out. 8. Dion posted: 07.26.2009 - 11:28 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) according to this site, this is the ONLY race he has ever finished on the lead lap. By he, I mean the ageless James Hylton. That is crazy. Hopefully he knows when he is no longer healthy enough to run. I remember Dean Roper died of a heart attack during a race. I think he was in his late 50s or 60s... That was back in 2001 I think. 9. Anonymous posted: 04.14.2011 - 9:35 am Rate this comment: (0) (0) It was the first time in 37 years that James finished on the lead lap in a major series. The last time was when he won at Talladega in 1972! 10. CBASS posted: 02.12.2013 - 7:26 am Rate this comment: (0) (0) And James is still racing into the 2013 season... he truly is an ageless wonder. Sponsor updates #48 Hylton Motorsports #25 Phoenix Air #26 ApplianceZone.com #04 Team Liquid Fence/ JoinAPS.com #60 Buffalo Wings & Rings/ Ferguson Pipe http://thepitlane.hoogetech.com/paint/2009-arca-remax-paint-schemes.html 11. Nascar Lead Lap Points posted: 06.12.2016 - 12:14 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) Owner Update #10 Wayne Peterson 12. rm posted: 05.02.2017 - 6:12 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) First caution - laps 4-10 - 4 oil on track backstretch (lucky dog: none) Second caution - laps 44-49 - debris (lucky dog: 03) Third caution - laps 71-75 - 04 oil on track turn 1 (lucky dog: 44) Fourth caution - laps 86-91 - 09, 5, 40, 51, 74 accident turn 4 (lucky dog: none) (red flag) Fifth caution - laps 93-95 - 2, 30, 48, 69 accident trioval (lucky dog: none) (accident occurred getting up to speed for the restart but the caution didn't fly till the leaders were on the backstretch) To the rear - 25 - engine change 6 crew chief - Mark Rette (same for all races in 2009) 13. rm posted: 10.22.2019 - 2:41 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) 03 owner - Donny Kelley 7 owner - Dicky Williamson 24 owner - Mike Harmon I believe this was the final race for Harmon's black-and-silver flames scheme, best known for being the paint job on the car he tried to send through the gate at Bristol. It was also the final race for Dicky Williamson, a longtime member of Delma Cowart's fun-loving team. The final top ten run for 1999 series champ Bill Baird, just a couple months shy of his 60th birthday. It was his best finish in 4 and a half years! 14. rm posted: 04.30.2020 - 12:29 pm Rate this comment: (2) (0) 10 sponsor - Wayne Peterson Racing Peterson and Patrick Sheltra had a near-miss on pit road under the first caution when Wayne was creeping towards the opening in the wall to turn into the garage while Sheltra dove towards his pit box to fix an overheating problem. Sheltra was just the first of several drivers who had overheating woes. The caution period was not kind to the Peterson team, as Butch Jarvis smacked the wall when Ken Weaver grenaded his engine and had to retire after just 3 laps. Jarvis had earned praise - and rightfully so! - from the SPEED team thanks to the surprising speed he showed in practice & qualifying. Kelly Bires makes his ARCA reappearance here and did quite well all day. Bires hadn't competed in ARCA since 2006, when he was a development driver prospect for the JTG/Wood Brothers operation. A punchless season-and-a-half in the Nationwide series led to Bires dropping down to attempt Talladega with the Win-Tron team. After the bloodbath that was Daytona, this race began much more smoothly with just 3 cautions in the first 70 laps. Two were for blown engines (though there was a small accident as a result of the smoke and oil on lap 4) and the other was for debris. Nonetheless, the attrition rate made up for the lack of cars going sideways. Ken Weaver, Robb Brent, Patrick Sheltra, Craig Goess, Mark Thompson and Chase Mattioli all dropped out with engine troubles. Thompson let out a puff of smoke while running third, though it appeared to be the result of a tire rub. One lap later, it was proven that it wasn't a tire rub after all when Thompson's engine let go in turn 4 and sparked a big crash behind him. The allotment of ARCA superspeedway chaos still hadn't been fulfilled, though, so for good measure they wrecked in the trioval coming to the green. If that kind of a wreck wasn't weird enough for you, Steve Blackburn stalled his car after being collected. Blackburn dropped the window net - with the race still green! - and hopped out of his lightly-damaged car, puzzling the announcers. After cutting back from a replay, TV showed Blackburn hopping back in his car sans helmet, ready to try to finish the race after all. An oddity for sure...and on top of that, Blackburn would have finished 23rd either way as he was well behind the pack when the GWC restart occurred. With second-place Bill Baird bobbling a bit coming through the trioval on the final lap, Justin Lofton pulled away to the largest margin of victory in an ARCA Talladega race since 1995, a fuel mileage race that saw the late Harris DeVane run dry coming to the checkers and cede the win to Mike Wallace. 15. JSPorts posted: 04.30.2020 - 12:39 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) ARCA plate races are always interesting, it seems. Usually, if you see 17 DNFs at Talladega, you assume most, if not all, would be for crashes. However, in this race, only 5 of the 17 DNFs were crash-related. 16. Jimmie4life posted: 04.30.2020 - 1:22 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) First ARCA spring race since 1996. 17. rm posted: 04.30.2020 - 2:31 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) Especially considering all 21 DNFs at Daytona were from crashes! Obviously the 2009 Daytona race was a historic outlier - arguably moreso than 2005 since most of those DNFs were the result of one incident, though the overall weirdness of 2005 might not ever be topped by another ARCA race...or stock car race, period. 18. Rich posted: 08.07.2020 - 8:29 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) The commentators were Rick Allen, Phil Parsons and Ken Schrader. The pit road reporters were Jim Tretow and Wendy Venturini. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ *Post a comment:* Your comment may not appear immediately - all comments must be approved by the moderator. Name: Comment: