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A deluge of rain decended upon Pocono Saturday morning canceling Sprint Cup practice and pushing back the start of the ARCA RE/MAX Series Pocono 200 from 1pm to 2pm, but a large crowd of fans stuck out the elements and were treated to an entertaining ARCA RE/MAX Series event.
A Member of Chase Miller's #9 Crew Having Fun in The Rain
Speed, Stenhouse Jr., and Allgaier Chat During Driver Introductions
Scott Speed was the Aaron's lap leader of the race leading 35 laps of the 80 lap event, but it was Justin Allgaier who led the most important lap, the final one. The win was Allgaier's first Superspeedway win of his career, a win that he described as "the biggest race of his career".
Allgaier's Smokin' Burnout
The race was slowed by 7 cautions, the last one setting up a two lap sprint to the finish in which Allgaier held off a hard charging Speed on the final restart to capture the win. Speed who finished the race 2nd, moved into 1st place in points after a late race caution with 7 laps to go took out points leader Ricky Stenhouse Jr relagating him to a 30th place finish.
The Field Coming in For Pit Stops
A 3-car crash on lap 68 brought the red flag. The backstretch crash involved Dexter Bean, Frank Kimmel, and Brian Scott. Scott was able to drive away from the crash, but Bean and Kimmel were examined at the infield care center. Bean was released, but Kimmel was sent to the Lehigh Valley Medical Center for observation. Kimmel was released on Sunday morning to the care of his primary physician in Indiana, and is now back home, even making a trip to the shop to help unload the wrecked car from Pocono.
Kimmel's Wrecked Car
Finishing the race 3rd was Chase Miller in his #9 Verizon Wireless-Motorola Dodge. Miller, who blew a motor in Friday morning practice started the race 29th. Matt Carter finished the race 4th, ahead of Robb Brent who finished 5th.
DEI's Aric Almirola who started the race from the 3rd position led 4 laps on the day, but encountered transmission problems and fell out of the race to finish a dissapointing 34th. Chrissy Wallace who was making her ARCA RE/MAX Series debut started the race in 4th, but crashed on lap 30 relegating her to a 39th place finish.
Finishing the race 6th was Jeremy Clements, ahead of Ken Butler III, Marc Davis, Jon Wes Townley, and Gabi DiCarlo who rounded out the remainder of the top 10.
The remainder of the field finished ....
11th - Justin Lofton, 12th - Patrick Sheltra, 13th - AJ Henriksen, 14th - Michael Phelps, 15th - Billy Pauch Jr., 16th - Chase Matiolli, 17th - Bryan Silas, 18th - Donny Kelley, 19th - Mike Harmon, 20th - Brian Scott, 21st - Dominick Casola, 22nd - Tayler Malsam, 23rd - Bobby Gerhart, 24th - Tom Berte, 25th - Darrell Basham, 26th - Ed Pompa, 27th - Tim Mitchell, 28th - Brad Smith, 29th - Jarit Johnson, 30th - Ricky Stenhouse Jr., 31st - Norm Benning, 32nd - Frank Kimmel, 33rd - Dexter Bean, 34th - Aric Almirola, 35th - James Hylton, 36th - Tom Hessert III, 37th - Jason Basham, 38th - Kory Rabenold, 39th - Chrissy Wallace, 40th - Brent Cross, 41st - Mike Zazula.
Allgaier Celebrates in Victory Lane
Nashville Up Next on ARCA RE/MAX Series Schedule
The next stop for the ARCA RE/MAX Series is Nashville Superspeedway for the Toyota ARCA 150 on Saturday, August 9th. The race will be covered LIVE on SPEED Channel at 4:30 PM Eastern.
Until Next Time Folks......Drive Fast, Turn Left!!
Bethann@insidethepitbox.com
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