|| *Comments on the 2019 General Tire #AnywhereIsPossible 200:* View the most recent comment <#38> | Post a comment <#post> Tweet 1. rm posted: 05.31.2019 - 8:34 pm Rate this comment: (1) (0) To the rear - 10 - pitting before the green First caution - laps 29-34 - 5 stopped short chute; free pass - 55 Majeski goes 2-in-a-row at Pocono with a late pass of Riley Herbst. He'll go for the threepeat at Michigan. Gerhart drew the ire of officials, as well as the 18 team probably, by stopping on the track and then refiring just moments after drawing a yellow. 2. rm posted: 05.31.2019 - 8:37 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) Sponsors: 11 - Consales 20 - Morton Buildings 22 - Crestliner Boats USA 23 - Holmes II Excavation 32 - Sparrow Ranch/AM Technical Solutions 55 - iK9 Patriotic 77 - Eat Sleep Race USA 3. Timothy_Eklund posted: 05.31.2019 - 8:41 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) WD:Con Nicolopoulos 0 greatrailing.com Wayne Peterson Chevy (Were gonna use the car from Charlotte but it was crashed) 4. Timothy_Eklund posted: 05.31.2019 - 8:45 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) WD Thad Moffitt 46 Empire Racing Group John Corr Chevy (Thad broke his hand and they wanted it to heal) WD C.J. McLaughlin 09 Sci Alps Chris Our Chevy (still recovering from Charlotte) 5. Mile501 posted: 05.31.2019 - 8:46 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) Car count for this race over the last 15 years: 2005 - 40 2006 - 41 2007 - 40 2008 - 41 2009 - 41 2010 - 36 2011 - 33 2012 - 34 2013 - 34 2014 - 30 2015 - 34 2016 - 36 2017 - 34 2018 - 30 2019 - 18 To further illustrate the point: Last year, 18 cars finished on the lead lap. This year, only 18 cars showed up. Is this just a blip, or is it a disturbing trend? 6. Anthony posted: 05.31.2019 - 8:52 pm Rate this comment: (0) (1) Going to composite bodies killed ARCA 7. Timothy_Eklund posted: 05.31.2019 - 8:52 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) 0 09 46 withdrew 8. Ultimate_Warrior_#18 posted: 05.31.2019 - 9:18 pm Rate this comment: (0) (1) Wow only 18 cars smh I'm just happy i had an opportunity to watch ARCA at its competitive peak in the 2000's cause this is just reminding me of how the pro cup series died. 9. RaceFanX posted: 05.31.2019 - 9:20 pm Rate this comment: (1) (0) Ty Majeski immediately follows up his first career ARCA win with career win number two. Because it's on the undercard for the weekend's main NASCAR races this race was nationally televised on Fox Sports 2. Because of the short field Fox Sports' usual ticker was able to display the entire field throughout the race since the main graphic can usually display 20 cars at a time. 10. Hi posted: 05.31.2019 - 9:29 pm Rate this comment: (1) (0) @8 Take into account three people withdrew, DGR didn't attempt, Our Motorsports didn't attempt, Vizion couldn't make it nor did the 2, 3, or the 7 of Codie Rohrbaugh and the 21 did not 11. Noah posted: 05.31.2019 - 9:30 pm Rate this comment: (1) (0) @6 I wouldnt say going to them killed it,but forcing smaller teams to use them at larger ISC/SMI owned tracks,which have the largest purses in ARCA,definitely didn't help the car counts. The team either has to cough up the bucks,or miss out on the race and miss out on some of the biggest purse of the year. 12. Eklund posted: 05.31.2019 - 10:09 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) I think that ARCA should have let the steel bodies race without putting the weight limits on them 13. TennesseeMountainMan posted: 05.31.2019 - 11:04 pm Rate this comment: (1) (1) Only 18 cars in the race & Brad Smith still doesn't get his first top 10 finish. If he'd just ran the entire race, chances are he would've tied his best career finish of a 12th place finish, he did back in the 1988 Snap-On Tools 500 at Salem 14. Senninha posted: 05.31.2019 - 11:25 pm Rate this comment: (0) (2) @13, Got damn! That's a horrendous stat all the way around. 15. HColby posted: 05.31.2019 - 11:49 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) Missed the race. What was wrong for Self and his 25 team? 16. Canadianfan posted: 06.01.2019 - 12:58 am Rate this comment: (0) (0) @15 Broke a rear axle. 17. rm posted: 06.01.2019 - 4:47 am Rate this comment: (0) (0) The steel bodies have had their lives extended a year already, originally a few years ago the plan was to go all composite this year. There's several problems that led to this small of a field, but that's really not one of them. Allowing steel cars would have added 2, maybe 3 cars max to the grid here, and none of them more competitive than midpack. 18. Mile501 posted: 06.01.2019 - 7:52 am Rate this comment: (0) (1) This theory came to me last night: Perhaps racing has too many top-level series. ARCA has been around for a long time, but we haven't always had the truck series. In the 1990s and 2000s, when NASCAR was booming, adding extra series worked. But now, I wonder if ARCA and trucks are drawing from the same pool of drivers. Both series go to similar track types and both series are at a similar position among the ladder drivers climb toward Cup. It's not just the composite bodies, either. It's been 7 years since at least 10 drivers ran the full ARCA schedule. The numbers in the truck series haven't been a whole lot higher. So I wonder, do we need both ARCA and trucks? 19. ShinyMew151 posted: 06.01.2019 - 8:19 am Rate this comment: (5) (0) Yes we do 20. FoMoCo posted: 06.01.2019 - 8:26 am Rate this comment: (0) (3) I disagree. Two spec engine series that draws very scant interest from Nascar bigwigs KBM and the 18 in ARCA. In the not too distant past Roush, Penske,Childress, Evernham all had vested interests in ARCA 21. gary24fan posted: 06.01.2019 - 9:15 am Rate this comment: (0) (1) Wow 18 cars, one lead change. Where are all these people saying the smaller fields mean great racing? 22. Noah posted: 06.01.2019 - 9:44 am Rate this comment: (0) (0) @18 that is why ARCA and the K&N Series are merging next year. There simply isn't a need for 3 feeder series that run nearly identical cars. 23. Timothy_Eklund posted: 06.01.2019 - 9:44 am Rate this comment: (0) (0) The truck series actually has good racing at mile and a half's 24. Corey posted: 06.01.2019 - 10:21 am Rate this comment: (0) (0) @22 There are still going to be 3 series. K&N East, K&N West, and ARCA Elite, plus a Stock car invitational that'll be combination races of all three series. 25. Tarheel posted: 06.01.2019 - 11:03 am Rate this comment: (0) (0) 23, true, primarily because the trucks are not as aerodynamic as the cars in other series. 26. possum posted: 06.01.2019 - 11:38 am Rate this comment: (2) (0) @17 - actually the composite bodies are part of the problem, altho not in the way you and previous commenters are thinking. The problem here is the ARCA series is too expensive to race in. Back in the old days a driver could buy a used Cup car for 5 or 6 thousand, build a decent race motor for around 10 thousand, and go racing. He wasn't going to win any races unless something weird happened, but he'd be mid-pack competitive and have fun doing it. Now (and ever since the misbegotten Car of Tomorrow showed up in NASCAR) you can't do that. You've got to buy a chassis & body specifically for this series, and a sealed engine. You're talking maybe 30,000 for the car, and another 35,000 for the engine. If you're racing for fun, this isn't the place to be. It's a shame, because back in the day ARCA gave talented amateurs a chance to run on the big tracks. Now if you're in it for fun, it's late models on the short tracks. It's ironic, too, that back when we had pretty open rules, you could re-use a car and engine thru several series. Now that we have spec cars and spec engines, susposedly to control costs, everything is unique to each series and it costs far more than it did. 27. rm posted: 06.01.2019 - 12:02 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) There was a rash of flat tires this week at Pocono - interestingly enough, only 1 flat tire was from a non-Venturini car though. Besides the race, Eckes had two flats at the test and Burton had a flat in the test as well. 28. Mile501 posted: 06.01.2019 - 1:10 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) Christian Eckes' team didn't waste any time heading back home from Pocono. I saw their hauler in the Roanoke, VA area around noon today. 29. rw posted: 06.02.2019 - 1:09 am Rate this comment: (0) (1) Geez can't help but notice that car count. So sad. 30. Timothy_Eklund posted: 06.05.2019 - 10:20 am Rate this comment: (0) (0) Currently 18 cars entered for arca Michigan but Thad moffitt is expected to withdraw 31. oldschoolracing519 posted: 06.12.2019 - 8:44 am Rate this comment: (0) (0) Crew Chief updates #25 Shannon Rursch #23 Shane Huffman #18 Mark McFarland #22 Paul Andrews 32. Timothy_Eklund posted: 07.26.2019 - 4:34 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) Today's ARCA race is currently in a lightning delay but they expect the engines to be fired in 5 minutes 33. UnderdogDriversFan posted: 07.26.2019 - 4:40 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) Speaking of,how come Majeski's not entered? You'd think Chad Bryant would put thw guy back in the 22 at the track he won at earlier this year. 34. Hi posted: 07.26.2019 - 5:23 pm Rate this comment: (0) (1) Chad isn't the brightest... Graf 35. Timothy_Eklund posted: 07.26.2019 - 5:40 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) Gilliland leads currently Eckes in second Chandler Smith In third 36. rm posted: 07.26.2019 - 6:01 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) Corey Heim already had this race on his schedule he announced before Majeski signed on. I would say Chad is smart, actually, because he's making Graf drive the car he tore up at Chicagoland in practice. 37. Timothy_Eklund posted: 07.26.2019 - 6:16 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) Todd Gilliland chokes the race on his pit stop and Christian Eckes wins at pocono! 38. Rich posted: 09.12.2020 - 3:17 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) Dave Reiff and Phil Parsons were the commentators. Jamie Howe 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: