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Arpin Wins Southern Illinois 100 on DuQuoin Dirt (DuQUOIN, Ill. - September 6, 2010) - Steve Arpin handed Venturini Motorsports its first ever ARCA Racing Series presented by RE/MAX and Menards victory on dirt with a convincing performance Monday afternoon in the 58th running of the Southern Illinois 100 at the DuQuoin State Fairgrounds.

Arpin, in the No. 55 Mike's Hard Lemonade Chevrolet, took the lead away from Tom Hessert on lap 62 of the 100-lap, 100-mile race and never relinquished it, beating Hessert to the checkered flag by a half second to earn his third career ARCA Series win.

"We had an awesome race car from the get-go," Arpin said in victory lane. "We were real tight right off the bat. I was nervous. I was honestly more nervous than I've been in a long time about being able to get to the front. But, Bill (Venturini, crew chief) and Kevin made an awesome adjustment during the pit stop and (they) asked me just to trust them. They hit it right on. I think that is the most fun I can ever remember having in a race car."

The victory for Arpin also held special meaning considering the Fort Frances, Ontario driver cut his teeth racing in dirt modifieds before moving up into the stock car ranks.

"This one is just a little bit extra special to me because, like with my dirt racing background, that's all I really have done before," added Arpin. "To be able to come back here to the dirt and get an ARCA win is something I've really wanted, especially at this level."

The victory was also especially rewarding for the Venturini Motorsports organization.

"It was a great day for Venturini Motorsports," said team manager Billy Venturini. "We have a long, and pretty honorable history in this series, and it was great to finally get a win here on the dirt. We've won just about everywhere else, and had some great dirt drivers. We spent a lot of time with Mark Richards and Rocket Chassis, and he helped us quite a bit with some knowledge in the dirt program. When we came here we were going to be the team to beat and our driver did a great job."

Hessert, who led laps 37 through 61 in the No. 77 Cherry Hill Classic Cars-Cunningham Motorsports Dodge, kept the pressure on Arpin all the way and got alongside the eventual winner on three occasions, but had to settle for second, five lengths away. Although he didn't get the win, the Cherry Hill, N.J. driver left the track tied in points with Patrick Sheltra with just four events remaining in 2010.

"We had a really good day," Hessert said. "The Taylor Classic Cars Dodge ran well. Solid points day as well; I wish we could have come up with the win. Steve (Arpin) was pretty strong on the short run. If we had a little bit of a longer green-flag run we might have had a shot, but it was a good day for us."

Unfortunately for Hessert, his wish for long green flag runs didn't come as 11 cautions slowed the pace for 42 laps.

Mikey Kile, also in a Venturini Motorsports-prepared Chevrolet, finished third.

"It was a good points day," Kile said. "I don't know if we had a third place car, but track position was key. We were running fifth and the guys in front of us had some misfortunes. We were able to take advantage of it. It was a good day for Venturini Motorsports, first and third. Congratulations to those guys (55 Team), and we're looking forward to going to Toledo."

Sheltra finished fourth in the Performance Vehicle Works Dodge in front of Ken Schrader, who steered his own Federated Auto Parts Chevrolet to the final stripe in fifth.

AJ Fike earned the Menards Pole presented by Ansell and led the first 16 laps before Kelly Kovski took control on lap 17. Kovski, who serves as Car Chief for ARCA driver Robb Brent when he's not driving, led 14 laps before relinquishing the lead to Schrader when Kovski came to pit road for service. Schrader, who had pitted earlier, led six laps before Hessert took his turn up front.

Will Kimmel finished a career-best sixth in the Messina Wildlife-Menards Ford with Craig Goess trailing in seventh in the Greenville Toyota of N.C. Toyota. Goess's finish places him third in championship points, just five points away from leaders' Hessert and Sheltra.

Chad McCumbee finished eighth in ModSpace-Red Cross Disaster Relief Ford with Kovski trailing in ninth in the Central Illinois Security-Hoosier Tire Midwest Chevrolet. Bryan Silas finished 10th in the Rockingham Speedway-PBG Ford.

The next event on the ARCA Racing Series calendar will take the tour home to Toledo (Ohio) Speedway for the Northwest Ohio Ford Dealers 200 Sunday afternoon, September 12.

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USAC SILVER CROWN CHAMPIONSHIP RACE RESULTS: September 5, 2010 – DuQuoin, Illinois – DuQuoin State Fairgrounds – “Ted Horn 100”

QUALIFICATIONS: 1. Jerry Coons Jr., 27, RW-31.240; 2. Jon Stanbrough, 37, Indiana Underground-31.263; 3. Levi Jones, 10, Stewart/Curb Agajanian-31.388; 4. Bobby East, 6, Klatt-31.420; 5. Mike Hess, 39, Mega-31.793; 6. Jeff Swindell, 199, Edwards/RE-31.806; 7. Bryan Clauson, 22, Stewart/Curb Agajanian-31.834; 8. A.J. Fike, 3, RFMS-31.845; 9. Dave Darland, 56, Foxco-31.922; 10. Bud Kaeding, 29, BK-32.045; 11. Shane Hmiel, 17, RW-32.200; 12. Shane Cottle, 5, Baldwin-32.225; 13. Brian Tyler, 21, Team 6R-32.258; 14. Tracy Hines, 16, Lightfoot-32.372; 15. Tanner Swanson, 19, Team 6R-32.401; 16. Kody Swanson, 23, Team 6R/TK-32.445; 17. Shane Hollingsworth, 20, Nolen-32.489; 18. Brad Kuhn, 43, Nix-32.641; 19. Russ Gamester, 51, Gamester-32.648; 20. Randy Bateman, 55, Bateman-32.752; 21. Coleman Gulick, 114, Gulick-32.782; 22. Tom Capie, 153, Capie-32.797; 23. John Heydenreich, 90, Heydenreich-32.821; 24. Bill Rose, 97, SC-33.008; 25. Terry Babb, 34, Morford-33.051; 26. Todd Kan!
e, 63, DePalma-33.231; 27. Chris Urish, 77, Urish-33.275; 28. Justin Carver, 991, Edwards/RE-33.357; 29. Zach Daum, 50, Daum-NT; 30. Donnie Beechler, 14, McQuinn-NT; 31. Derek Hagar, 91, Hagar-NT.

FEATURE: (100 laps) 1. Kody Swanson, 2. Jon Stanbrough, 3. Todd Kane, 4. Shane Hmiel, 5. Dave Darland, 6. Brian Tyler, 7. Jeff Swindell, 8. Bobby East, 9. John Heydenreich, 10. Levi Jones, 11. A.J. Fike, 12. Bud Kaeding, 13. Bryan Clauson, 14. Shane Cottle, 15. Jerry Coons Jr., 16. Brad Kuhn, 17. Tom Capie, 18. Russ Gamester, 19. Justin Carver, 20. Tracy Hines, 21. Chris Urish, 22. Bill Rose, 23. Terry Babb, 24. Randy Bateman, 25. Shane Hollingsworth, 26. Tanner Swanson, 27. Mike Hess, 28. Coleman Gulick. NT
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FEATURE LAP LEADERS: Laps 1-51 Coons, Laps 52-100 K.Swanson.

NEW SILVER CROWN POINTS: 1-Kaeding-296; 2-K.Swanson-260; 3-Coons-254; 4-Hmiel-248; 5-Fike-246; 6-Jones-243; 7-Tyler-230; 8-Hines-203; 9-East-196; 10-Tyler-195.

NEXT SILVER CROWN RACE: September 24-25 – Rossburg, OH – Eldora Speedway – “4-Crown Nationals”
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By Jay Hardin/Track Enterprises

DuQuoin, IL (September 7, 2010)-Shelby Miles of Bloomington, Indiana dominated the 17th Bill Oldani Memorial for UMP Modifieds Labor Day on the DuQuoin State Fair "Magic Mile" leading all 20 laps of the main event. Curt Rhodes of Taylorville, Illinois finished second with Jesse Snyder of Palestine, Illinois third, Bobby Regot of St. Peters, Missouri fourth and Bryan Higgerson of Pinckneyville, Illinois fifth.

Miles, the son of racing promoters Mike and Judy Miles, jumped into the lead from the outside of the front row and sailed past Tim Burdel for a lead he would never give up. Behind him the action was wild and wooly as three cautions and one red flag slowed and eventually stopped the action. Two-time winner Jeff Parks spun in turn four on the fifth lap but was able to pit and rejoin the action. On the restart Jeff Masson spun in turn four but was also able to continue, as was Steve Adams who made light contact with the turn one wall on lap 11.

Lap 14 saw perhaps the biggest wreck in DuQuoin modified history as seven cars tangled in turn three with Rick Sims rolling his machine. The action started when Benton's Shane Cockrum (up to eighth from twenty-fifth) and Emmett Groves tangled in turn three with both hitting the wall. When the dust cleared Jeff Masson, Randy Myers, Chris Winters, Adams and Sims were all involved with Adams the only one able to continue. No one was injured in the melee.

Miles pulled away on the restart and ended up with a fair margin of victory at the checker. Thirteen cars were running at the end with twelve on the lead lap. Caution-free heat races were held on Sunday night in conjunction with the Ted Horn 100 and were won by Tim Burdel of DuQuoin, Miles and Rhodes with Miles setting a new modified track record for six laps of
109.218 miles an hour. Four-time winner Brian Shaw of Robinson had his car break on the last lap of his heat Sunday night and was unable to start Monday's feature.
Feature Results: 17th Oldani Memorial DuQuoin September 6, 2010
Distance: 20 miles Time: No time Speed: Red flag
P NO Driver-Car Laps St Lineup
1 76 Shelby Miles/Bloomington, INTK&M Excavating 20 14r
2 10 Curt Rhodes/Taylorville, IL/First Financial Bank of Terre Haute 20 76
3 X Jesse Snyderi/Palestine, IL/B VS-Pierce Race Cars 20 10
4 4uw Bobby Regot/St. Peters, MO/Imo's Pizza 20 85g
5 7h Bryan Higgerson/Pinckneyville, IL/Vogler Ford-SI Race Parts 20 44x
6 75 Jeff Parks/Marion, IL/Parks Trucking 20 75
7 95 Danny Sissom/Cape Girardeau, MO/Rent To Own 20 7h
8 85g Joe Giesler/St. Mary, MO/Sticks Chevy Shed-Jokers Farms 20 12
9 44x Rich Lentz/Carterville, IL/Century 21 20 500
10 2 Patrick Lawson/Edwardsville, IL/Wick Racing Fuels 20 4uw
11 500 Steve Adams/Humboldt, IL/Steve's Performance 20 21
12 9b Charlie Baker/Labelle, MO/Roberts Garage 20 X
13 12 Brian Rieck/Troy, MO/Charlton Trucking 19 14j
14 86 Shane Cockrum/Benton, IL/Andy's Auto Body 13 Is
15 21 Emmett Groves/Sikeston, MO/Boomland-Focus Bank 13 44
16 18 Randy Myers/Springfield, IL/Koo Koos West-Dodd Signs 13 18
17 14j Jeff Masson/Irondale, MO/Masson Trucking 13 9c
18 21x Chris Winters/DuQuoin, IL/Country Financial 13 2
19 95x Rick Sims/Sesser, IL/Sims Motorsports 13 9b
20 9c Blake Cook/DuQuoin, IL/Professional Auto Body 8 21x
21 14r Tim Burdel/DuQuoin, IL/Pictures by Cheryl 6 95
22 44k Jared Kneemiller/St. Charles, MO/Imo's Pizza 3 95x
23 56 Jonathan Rowan/Jackson, TN/Jackson Battery Service 1 17
24 1s Brian Shaw/Robinson, IL/Masson Trucking 0-DNS 77
25 17 Jesse Wisely/Vergennes, IL/Eggemeyer Farms-Robison Excavating 0-DNS 86
26 77 Jim Shipman/Flat Rock, IL/Cuppy's Collision 0-DNs 56

Lap Leaders: 1-20 Miles

Yellow Lights: Lap 5, Parks spun turn 4; lap 6 Masson spun turn 4; lap 11 Adams hit turn I wall; lap 14 seven car accident in turn 4 (Cockrum, Groves, Masson, Sims, Winters, Adams, Myers) with red flag for Sims flip.



Heat Race Results: 17th Bill Oldani Memorial at DuQuoin Date: 9/5/10

Heat 1 Dist: 6 miles Time: 3:22.60 Speed: 106.614
P NO DRIVER-CAR Laps St Lineup
1 14r Tim Burdel 6 9b
2 85g Joe Giesler 6 85g
3 7h Bryan Higgerson 6 95x
4 4uw Bobby Regot 6 14r
5 14j Jeff Masson 6 18
6 18 Randy Myers 6 7h
7 9b Charlie Baker 6 86
8 95x Rick Sims 6 4uw
9 86 Shane Cockrum 1 14j


Heat 2 Dist: 6 miles Time: 3:17.77 Speed: 109.218 NTR
P NO DRIVER-CAR: Laps St Lineup
1 76 Shelby Miles 6 21x
2 44x Rich Lentz 6 21
3 12 Brian Rieck 6 76
4 21 Emmett Groves 6 12
5 1s Brian Shaw 6 44x
6 9c Blake Cook 6 1s
7 21x Chris Winters 4 17
8 17 Jesse Wisely 0 9c


Heat 3 Dist: 6 miles Time: 3:20.40 Speed: 107.784
P NO DRIVER-CAR Laps St Lineup
1 10 Curt Rhodes 6 10
2 75 Jeff Parks 6 77
3 500 Steve Adams 6 X
4 X Jesse Snyder 6 95
5 44k Jared Kneemiller 6 44k
6 2 Patrick Lawson 6 500
7 95 Danny Sissom 5 75
8 77 Jim Shipman 0-DNS 2
 




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