|| *Comments on the 2019 Kentuckiana Ford Dealers ARCA Fall Classic 200:* View the most recent comment <#23> | Post a comment <#post> Tweet 1. MattL posted: 09.15.2019 - 9:03 am Rate this comment: (2) (0) Brian Finney returns! 2. rm posted: 09.15.2019 - 1:29 pm Rate this comment: (2) (0) A roller coaster of a race at Salem, Ty Gibbs led just about every lap - except when Christian Eckes passed him on pit road - but the big story was Michael Self running into a suspension problem and spending 60+ laps behind the wall. Self leads Eckes by 5 points in the points standings now. Not long after the NASCAR throwback weekend at Darlington, ARCA had their throwback weekend at Salem, a track where they've raced 106 times. Sponsors: 06 - Lafayette Ford Fred Lorenzen Throwback (on a Dodge, yes...) 1 - Fast Track High Performance Driving School 11 - Double H Ranch Darrell Waltrip Throwback (voted best throwback) 15 - JBL Audio Bill Venturini Throwback 20 - Craftsman Tools Bill Venturini Throwback 28 - Scott's/GMPartsNow Bruce VanderLaan Tribute 32 - Project Hope Foundation 55 - Autism Awareness Tony Venturini Throwback 80 - Bob Steele Chevrolet Ben Peterson, grandson of Wayne, makes his debut. Brian Finney makes his first appearance since his car was torched at Toledo in 2017, though his team fielded a car at Daytona last year and withdrew from Toledo earlier this season. Not sure what happened, but he spent a lot of time on pit road before retiring from the race. Not a great day for Venturini Motorsports, the usual speed the team showed was lacking. Gavin Harlien, in just his third start, was never inside the top ten and hit the wall before his engine blew. A part failure cost Michael Self most of his point lead. Chandler Smith ran outside the top five most of the day and was burned by a penalty on the restart, leaving him a lap down. Christian Eckes was the best of the bunch, though he was probably the third-best car most of the day behind winner Ty Gibbs and Sam Mayer. 3. Timothy_Eklund posted: 09.15.2019 - 2:38 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) Too bad I couldn't watch this race, being a ty Gibbs fan it probably would have been cool. 4. rw posted: 09.15.2019 - 2:43 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) Eckes is now within 5 points I believe of the ARCA championship lead. This is getting interesting now. 5. Zach posted: 09.15.2019 - 3:06 pm Rate this comment: (0) (1) Now that the points are so close it might actually make Kansas worth watching. 6. Dee posted: 09.15.2019 - 3:52 pm Rate this comment: (0) (8) 2- Not surprising for Venturini Motorsports, they are a poorly run organization but because of the immense lack of competition in ARCA, they look good. 7. rm posted: 09.15.2019 - 9:28 pm Rate this comment: (1) (0) First caution - laps 23-28 - debris turns 1/2; free pass - 11 Second caution - laps 75-84 - 55 oil turn 2; free pass - 28 Third caution - laps 99-103 - 06 fluid turns 1/2; free pass - 20 Fourth caution - laps 169-175 - 11, 69 accident turn 3; free pass - 23 Fifth caution - laps 186-191 - debris turn 4; free pass - 28 To the rear - 80 - missed driver intros Race name was the ?Kentuckiana Ford Dealers Fall Classic 200' 8. Christian posted: 09.15.2019 - 10:50 pm Rate this comment: (0) (4) This seemed like an ultra competitive race. 9. FoMoCo posted: 09.16.2019 - 4:21 am Rate this comment: (0) (4) A Gibbs wins an ARCA race in a Gibbs car. Something to be proud of. Hope he shows up at Kansas to watch Majeski deliver an asswhoopin' 10. Wil posted: 09.16.2019 - 5:01 am Rate this comment: (0) (1) @9 Does the car drive itself? Does Riley Herbst even lead laps in it? You can bemoan that it's the best car on the track, but it's still impressive for Ty Gibbs to dominate the way he did. "A Gibbs wins in a Gibbs car" uh...you say a "Gibbs" wins as if the Gibbs family is full of talented drivers. Would expect nothing less though from Me/GiveMajeskiAChance who's so ashamed of his rep that he has to change names every week. 11. oldschoolracing519 posted: 09.16.2019 - 1:59 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) #20 Crew Chief should be Billy Venturini 12. 61LongFan posted: 09.16.2019 - 6:21 pm Rate this comment: (0) (1) Attendance was estimated 1300, Salem can fit 1500 so nearly a sellout 13. rm posted: 09.17.2019 - 8:34 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) Herbst has led laps, and has ran up front in most of his ARCA starts this year. Probably should have won Pocono but lost on pit road. There are plenty of other examples to highlight the ups and downs of the Riley Herbst driving experience, but his ARCA performance this year isn't one of them. Regarding attendance: sure looked like more than 1300 people there, and Salem can hold way more than 1500 people so that's not accurate. Pretty sure it holds closer to 10k 14. Wil posted: 09.17.2019 - 9:15 pm Rate this comment: (1) (1) @13 Have to disagree. Ty Gibbs has led laps in 7/10 starts in the 18 this year, including in his last 6 races. Herbst has led laps in 1/7 starts this year in the same car. Additionally, Gibbs has scored a top 5 in 7/10 starts; Herbst has a top 5 in 2/7 starts. 15. rm posted: 09.18.2019 - 9:18 am Rate this comment: (0) (0) Good lord, I can't believe you've got me defending Riley Herbst here, but here goes. Herbst was running third at Charlotte when he was wrecked by Sheldon Creed with 3 to go. He was also running second at Chicagoland in the last 3-4 laps when he burned up his tires, falling out of the top five when he was split 3-wide coming to the finish. And at Michigan the car had engine problems from the time the team unloaded the car in the morning, never figuring out what really happened, and they haven't brought that car to the track since. In short - take away a couple unlucky breaks and a race where he was doomed from the start and he's in the top 5 for 4/6 races, a percentage pretty similar to Gibbs' numbers. Also, the races Herbst has run in have had on average a car count of 23 versus 19 for Gibbs. Easy to just quote statistics when you don't watch the races. This also proves that given enough time, you can twist stats and the story enough to make any driver look like they're underrated and deserve a better chance (like I just did with Herbst), which is scary. 16. 12334 posted: 09.19.2019 - 9:48 am Rate this comment: (1) (2) @6 isnt wrong, Venturini performance suffers when they field 4 cars, its a miracle that they were able to accomplish what they did with the 25 and 55 last year 17. David posted: 10.02.2019 - 3:33 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) Here is what's going to happen to ARCA when absorbed by NASCAR (adios, K&N). From a press release issued a little while ago: NASCAR and ARCA announced today a new championship format for 2020 that will see the continuation of three historic regional championship series and the coronation of a new fourth champion, all under the ARCA Menards Series banner. The series provide an integral development step for young drivers who aspire to move up to the Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series, NASCAR Xfinity Series or NASCAR Gander Outdoors Truck Series; as well as a highly-competitive professional level for short-track veterans. They will also provide continuity to three of the longest running high-level regional stock car series in the United States. The four championships will be: · ARCA Menards Series East and ARCA Menards Series West will continue the traditions established by the Busch North Series (founded in 1987) and Pacific Coast Late Model Series/Winston West (1954) and currently competing as the NASCAR K&N Pro Series East and West. The series will feature an annual schedule of six to eight races and crowning of separate regional champions. · ARCA Menards Series ? The 20-race ARCA Menards Series, founded in 1953, a mix of national-series combination events at venues such as Daytona International Speedway and Charlotte Motor Speedway, as well as short tracks like Madison International Speedway in Wisconsin and the Illinois and DuQuoin State Fairgrounds mile dirt tracks. · ARCA Racing Series Showdown ? Ten races within the larger ARCA Menards Series championship will feature the best of the three series coming together to crown a Showdown champion. 18. Anonymous posted: 10.02.2019 - 4:15 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) So basically the old USAR ProCup tour? Multiple regional series and they come together with their best drivers to race together in playoffs at the end of the year? 19. possum posted: 10.02.2019 - 6:26 pm Rate this comment: (1) (0) @18 - that was my first thought, just like the old ProCup north & south. The difference, as I understand it, is the 10 combined races will be spread out thru the season, rather than all at the end as the ProCup did. Incidently, that would seem to mean the east and west series are actually 16-18 races, counting the stand-alone and combined events. Unless the combined events don't score east/west points. 20. rm posted: 10.02.2019 - 10:08 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) I think Possum summed it up correctly, and the last part about the combined races not scoring East or West points is right as well 21. JFM01 posted: 10.06.2019 - 11:22 am Rate this comment: (1) (0) Last ARCA race for Dodge. 22. RaceFanX posted: 02.13.2020 - 2:59 pm Rate this comment: (1) (0) Ty Gibbs' second ARCA win was much more dominant than his first. 23. JSPorts posted: 02.13.2020 - 3:10 pm Rate this comment: (0) (1) Ty Gibbs: 2 wins in 11 ARCA starts for JGR Riley Herbst: 1 win in 47 ARCA starts for JGR ------------------------------------------------------------------------ *Post a comment:* Your comment may not appear immediately - all comments must be approved by the moderator. Name: Comment: