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Ty Gibbs Wins ARCA Race at Gateway for Second Straight Year

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Ty Gibbs called his victory in the 2020 Dutch Boy 150 at World Wide Technology Raceway at Gateway amazing. He absolutely dominated the ARCA Menards Series race in Madison, IL on Saturday (Aug. 29). It was his sixth career ARCA win and fourth win of this season. Gibbs sat atop the leaderboard in the lone …

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ARCA Preview: 2020 Dutch Boy 150 at Gateway

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(Photo: Nigel Kinrade Photography)

World Wide Technology Raceway at Gateway is the site of the 13th race of the ARCA Menards Series season and the seventh race of the Sioux Chief Showdown, a mini-championship within the larger ARCA championship. The race will occur Saturday, Aug. 29, the day before the NASCAR Gander RV & Outdoors Truck Series also races …

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Stock Car Scoop: Entry Lists for Dover, ARCA Schedule Change

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The entry lists for the two NASCAR Cup Series races at Dover International Speedway this weekend were released on Monday (Aug. 17). Who are the notable names on the entry lists? Find out on this edition of Frontstretch’s Stock Car Scoop. Frontstretch’s newest podcast focused on the motorsports news of the week also dives into the …

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ARCA Realigns Madison Race to I-44 Speedway, Postpones DuQuoin

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The ARCA Menards Series has realigned its race from Madison International Speedway to I-44 Speedway, a 0.375-mile track in Lebanon, Mo., it announced Aug. 18. Additionally, ARCA is postponing the Labor Day weekend race at DuQuoin State Fairgrounds. The race at Madison was originally scheduled for Aug. 7. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, that race …

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ARCA Showdown Rundown: Where We Stand After the Daytona Road Course

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One giant step for man, one giant step for the ARCA Menards Series. The ARCA Menards Series was the first series to hit the Daytona Road Course Friday Night (Aug. 14). Michael Self has always prided himself as a road-course driver, and it showed during the inaugural race on the Daytona Road Course. The performance …

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Michael Self Earns Victory Under the Lights in Inaugural General Tire 100 at Daytona

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It was Michael Self vs. Ty Gibbs Friday night in Daytona International Speedway’s road course in the ARCA Menards Series. But in the end, Self took the lead commandingly with six laps to go and never looked back, earning the victory. Gibbs made contact with the grass in the backstretch bus stop trying to make …

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NASCAR 101: Meet the Drivers Making Their Season — or Series — Debuts at the Daytona Road Course

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The NASCAR schedule isn’t just visiting a new track this weekend when its top series tackle the Daytona International Speedway road course. Some new faces are coming along, too. As is often the case with NASCAR’s road course races, multiple drivers entered this weekend are not full-time competitors on any NASCAR circuit. Instead, they either …

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ARCA Preview: 2020 General Tire 100 at the Daytona Road Course

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For the first time in 1,079 days, the ARCA Menards Series will be going road course racing. Its last outing on road course came on Aug. 27, 2017, at Road America. On Friday, the ARCA Menards Series will enter new territory and lead the way for NASCAR as the first series to race on the …

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Riley Herbst Victory Comes at Interesting Time for Toyota Racing Development

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Riley Herbst‘s ARCA victory at Michigan Sunday came at an interesting time for Toyota Racing Development. The victory comes just a few days removed from the announcement that Erik Jones would not return to Joe Gibbs Racing in 2021. Herbst is one of Toyota’s long-term “experiments” that earned his first victory in over 1,000 days. …

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