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  1.   Jeff posted:
  03.19.2020 - 7:12 am
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ARCA founder John Marcum passed away from a heart attack the day before
this race at Dayton Speedway. This put the future of the series up in
the air for awhile. I believe one issue of Stock Car Racing Magazine
covered the state of different sanctioning bodies and predicted that
ARCA would probably go under first, before ASA, USAC and others like the
IRA. The founder of ARCA had a close connection with NASCAR founder Bill
France from the early years of stock car racing. NASCAR stepped in with
the Talladega Superspeedway sponsoring the series with a $25,000 point
fund for the 1982 season, and helped the series survive. ARCA managed to
outlast all those other stock car series mentioned in that SCR magazine
article long ago.


  2.   Danish_Pie posted:
  08.20.2020 - 7:28 pm
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Fittingly after the passing of John Marcum, this was the ARCA series
last race at Dayton Speedway, where the series ran it's first race some
28 years before.


  3.   MSportRev posted:
  08.20.2020 - 7:42 pm
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Pole Speed: 101.81 MPH


  4.   Danish_Pie posted:
  04.22.2021 - 6:08 pm
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Larry Moyer's only ARCA win, as well as the only lead lap finish of his
1981 championship season.


  5.   Tigerman posted:
  04.22.2021 - 8:46 pm
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Did Gordon Blankenship drive a Dodge in this race? He ran Dodge the
whole season tbh.


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