Annual ARCA RE/MAX Series Press Conference Yields News for 2007
As a preamble to the 54th annual ARCA RE/MAX Series national championship awards banquet at the Northern Kentucky Convention Center, several key announcements took center stage during the annual series press conference in Covington, Kentucky Saturday afternoon.
SPEED To Air 14 ARCA RE/MAX Series Events in 2007
SPEED, the worldwide leader in motorsports television coverage, has announced coverage of 14 ARCA RE/MAX Series races in 2007, each scheduled for live or same-day delayed broadcast to a national television audience.
2007 broadcast coverage of the ARCA RE/MAX Series will begin on Saturday afternoon, February 10 at Daytona Int'l Speedway, with live, flag to flag coverage of the 44th annual Daytona ARCA 200 season opener.
In addition to Daytona, events scheduled for coverage in '07 include both at Toledo Speedway on May 20 and October 14 and both at Pocono Raceway on June 9 and August 4.
Andy Belmont Racing Flocks To Daytona Test With Freshman Group
DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. (Thursday, December 14, 2006) - - Andy Belmont Racing (ABR) planning to make their 2007 ARCA RE/MAX Series season the strongest yet heads to the final ARCA RE/MAX Series open test session of the 2006 season this week at Daytona International Speedway with a series of rookie drivers in preparation for the 2007 opener. Andy Lally, Joey McCarthy, Ted Olswfski, Mark Swan, John Graham and Bill Catania will all take their first laps around the 2.5-mile Superspeedway in a scheduled three-day test at DIS this Friday, Saturday and Sunday. Lally, heads to the World Center of Racing on the heels of a successful and promising stock car test in an ABR entry at Lowes Motor Speedway. Lally was the 2006 Rolex Grand Am Champion. "I am really excited to drive at Daytona. I had such a good time at Charlotte and am really looking forward to being with Andy Belmont and the team again, explained Lally, a native of Georgia.
Crash kills boy on way to open presents
LAUDERHILL - A 5-year-old boy on the way to open a Christmas present at his grandmother's house died in a road accident Sunday night when the car he was riding in struck a pickup truck, projecting the youngster into the exploding airbag and windshield, police said.
"This is a very tragic accident for the holidays," Lauderhill Police spokeswoman Lt. Tundra King said. "This is unfortunately something that didn't have to happen if the child was restrained."
King said Keon Harden was sitting on his mother's lap in the front seat of a Toyota Camry being driven by his father. Just after 6 p.m., in the southbound lanes of North State Road 7 in the 1200 block, the Camry hit a Dodge Dakota from behind, sending it into the back of a Lincoln Town Car.
The badly injured Keon, of Hollywood, was taken to Broward General Medical Center, where he was pronounced dead.
Racer Profile: Joe Ruttman
Raymond Joe Ruttman began his racing career with assistance from his older brother Troy Ruttman, who would become an Indy 500 winner, and his father Ralph Ruttman, who would become a highly awarded racing mechanic. Ruttman was born in Upland, California. His father worked at the former Kaiser Steel Mill in Fontana, California now the present site of the California Speedway.
Ruttmans racing experience began in go-karts before moving on to the USAC ranks where we won his first national championship in 1980. His NASCAR debut came at the age of 18 driving the Bill Stroppe/Carl Dane No. 98 Mercury in the NASCAR Grand National Division (later to be renamed the Winston Cup Series and then the NEXTEL Cup Series) Riverside 500. Ruttman qualified 30th but went on to finish 10th at the 2.7-mile Riverside International Raceways road course.
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