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  1.   Jeff posted:
  03.20.2020 - 3:41 pm
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Probably the shortest ARCA race time-wise on this site!


  2.   Timothy_Eklund posted:
  03.20.2020 - 4:08 pm
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who thought 75 laps at a quarter mile race track was a good idea? If
this was a local short track race I wouldn't be suprised but an arca race?


  3.   RaceFanX posted:
  03.20.2020 - 4:15 pm
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This very likely was run alongside regular weekly series as part of a
full racing program. I can't see spectators paying for just one ARCA
race this short.


  4.   rm posted:
  03.20.2020 - 4:36 pm
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If the car counts and condensed schedules couldn't tip you off, this
race was during an era where the series was not doing very well at all
and it really came to a head the next year when series founder John
Marcum passed away. Beyond the races at Daytona and Talladega, the
series really didn't have much propelling it along at the time.


  5.   possum posted:
  03.20.2020 - 7:01 pm
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@3 - yeah, at the time it was a popular thing to have a touring series
run as a "feature event" following an abbreviated program for the local
classes. I can recall the All-Pro and the USAR guys running at Hialeah
(which had the added bonus that the local super late models could be
made rule-compliant for those events); typically they'd do quals for the
feature, then run maybe 2 of the 4 local classes, and then the big boys.

@4 - regardless of ARCA's situation in 1980, racing at Flat Rock was
evidently successful, since they continued doing so a couple of times
per year until the turn of the century.


  6.   Jeff posted:
  03.21.2020 - 12:53 am
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I think it helped that Flat Rock is less than a thirty minute drive from
ARCA HQ in Temperance, MI. ARCA probably ran heat races for the feature
to fill out the program in addition to running local classes. It's
something I've seen in reports for other races.


  7.   MSportRev posted:
  04.22.2021 - 7:36 pm
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Average speed: 61.031 MPH


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