|| *Comments on the 2002 Federated Auto Parts 100:* View the most recent comment <#8> | Post a comment <#post> Tweet 1. 1995z71 posted: 10.30.2011 - 1:14 am Rate this comment: (0) (0) Frank Kimmel wins followed by 2 Cup Drivers, Tony Stewart & Ken Schrader. Tony Stewart's car owner Andy Petree finished 33rd. Also Eric Martin has his career best finish of 14th. Martin passed away a little over a month after this race in a practice crash. 2. Ed posted: 11.09.2013 - 3:18 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) Frank Kimmel earned his 42nd career win in this race, a win that moved him ahead of Tim Steele on the all-time wins list 3. RaceFanX posted: 11.06.2016 - 6:13 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) Former ARCA race winner Bob Hill makes his final start in the series, racing the Roulo Brothers Racing's famous #39 Chevy but overheating issues put him on the sidelines just past halfway. 4. rm posted: 05.21.2018 - 4:16 pm Rate this comment: (1) (0) 7 owner - Doug Keller (same for all ARCA starts from 2001 until the end of his career) 20 owner - Dick Coon (same for all races 2000-02) 61 owner - Bill Hendren 75 owner - Mary Louise Miller (same for all 2002 starts) 78 status - crash 91 status - fatigue The 26 was a Ford 39 sponsor - ARCA Re/Max Series / Roulo Bros. Racing 75 sponsor - Biomet Inc./Bud Light 84 sponsor - SoBe This was the first nationally-televised live ARCA dirt race. As with any mile dirt ARCA race attrition was high and cars were overheating left and right. Just 6 cars wound up on the lead lap at the end of the day. Tony Stewart was more than 7 tenths of a second faster in qualifying than outside polesitter Doug Keller! A humorous moment occurred on pit road during the second caution when Stewart pulled out of his stall and hit a crew member on Ron Cox's team. The crew member was obviously displeased and smacked Stewart's window net in retaliation. Stewart proceeded to pull up to run alongside Cox on pit road and stuck his water bottle out of the window and sprayed it in the direction of Cox's car. With no water left in the bottle after that, Stewart pulled down to the inside of the frontstretch the next lap and tossed the now-empty bottle back on pit road. The ageless wonder Red Farmer makes his final start of 2002 in ARCA and picks up a season-best 4th. This was the first of a string of 3 straight top 10s to end Farmer's ARCA career. Farmer spun out on lap 35 but recovered quite nicely. Billy Venturini wrecked out at Winchester just a couple days before this race and the Venturini team patched together a dirt car at the Kimmel shop just in time to make it to DuQuoin. After the car overheated, the announcers dubbed the cobbled-together machine a "ThunderCarlo" due to the old #46 nose on the car! Alton McBride was involved in a big crash where he got turned coming out of 4 and hit the hole in the pit wall with the right side of the car. Brian Winters stepped out of his car and had to be taken out of the track in an ambulance after passing out due to the heat. It was 95+ degrees and sunny all day. 5. RaceFanX posted: 12.11.2018 - 9:34 am Rate this comment: (0) (0) Karla Lampe bounces back from her Winchester DNQ to make the field at DuQuoin but a blown engine early on put her on the sidelines in what turned out to be her final ARCA race. 6. MSportRev posted: 12.03.2019 - 12:25 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) Order of DNQs plus other info: 41. Mark Hockensmith #96 Ford 42. Jim Eubanks #47 Chevrolet 43. Adam Roberts #14 Chevrolet 44. Charlie Schaefer #79 Owner: Charlie Schaefer Chevrolet Source: Ultimate Racing History 7. rm posted: 08.17.2020 - 9:08 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) The driver of the 78 was Alton McBride Jr., best known now for being the face of the brief revival of North Wilkesboro Speedway. 06 make - Pontiac 26 sponsor - Loctite 34 sponsor - Tri-State Motorsports 34 owner - Larry Clement 38 owner - Tom Eriksen 75 owner - Mary Louise Miller 55 crew chief - Jimmy Elledge 75 crew chief - Scott Eldridge (who is still in the sport, currently on the #11 JGR team) One day after finishing 23rd with Bobby Hamilton in the Southern 500, Jimmy Elledge and Andy Petree find better fortune with a runner-up effort from Tony Stewart here. Stewart, too, bettered his Darlington finish of 8th. Petree himself, though, languished behind the leaders before finally cooking the motor at about the one-third mark after a spin. After a blown engine at Winchester, apparently Darrell Basham and co. went to work on the car at the Kimmels' nearby shop, wrenching to get the car ready for the next race while borrowing one of Frank's backup cars with the decals peeled off for Darrell to start-and-park here. Would love to find a photo if one was floating around somewhere. Chase Montgomery turned to a backup car here after crashing out at Winchester. His race went even worse here, forcing the team to go to a third car in as many races when the series ran its third race in eight days at Chicagoland later in the week. He stopped the bleeding by finishing 6th there. Brad Smith brought out the first yellow by nosing into the pit barrels but returned to the race for 30 more laps. How exactly that occurred happens to be a mystery, though... Further info on Billy Venturini's adventurous weekend, as mentioned above: he suffered from overheating issues early and often. Running a Ford nose on a Chevrolet body probably didn't help matters at all there. One of ML Motorsports' finer days with two top ten cars thanks to Red Farmer and Jason Jarrett. Farmer and Jarrett topped that effort at Springfield two years later when both drivers finished in the top five at the 2004 Illinois State Fair extravaganza. Bill Venturini, part of the SPEED broadcast effort, pointed out Justin Allgaier as a young up-and-comer to watch in pre-race. I think he was onto something here... Charlie Schaefer DNQ'd after a big crash in qualifying, apparently. 8. Rich posted: 09.01.2020 - 4:26 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) Brian Drebber and Bill Venturini were the commentators. Don Radebaugh was the sole pit road reporter. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ *Post a comment:* Your comment may not appear immediately - all comments must be approved by the moderator. Name: Comment: