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Schrader on the win: ‘Too much fun’

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Ken Schrader

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(DuQUOIN, Ill. – Sept. 2, 2013) – Ken Schrader won the Southern Illinois 100 presented by Federated Car Care Monday, surviving a green-white-checkered finish to win for the second time this season in the ARCA Racing Series presented by Menards.

Schrader, in the No. 52 Federated Auto Parts Chevrolet, won the pole, led the first 41 laps and led when it counted, the finish. He passed Tom Hessert in the No. 77 Barbera’s Autoland Dodge, just before a caution came out to set up the green-white-checkered finish. As cars fought for position, Hessert made his move but couldn’t get any closer to Schrader.
“That was just too much fun,” Schrader said in victory lane. It was his 17th career ARCA victory.

Hessert took the lead during a wild middle part of the race that saw several lead changes and door-to-door racing. At one point, Frank Kimmel took the lead on a three-wide pass in front of the main DuQuoin grandstand. A few laps later, he found himself in fifth position and Hessert grabbed the top spot.

Meanwhile, Schrader knifed his way through traffic and got to second, behind Hessert.

“We pitted late, like around lap 40, and we came back out eighth, then we got to sixth. A couple things happened and we got to second,” Schrader said. “I thought we might be done if Tom didn’t have problems. He got just a little bit high with a half dozen laps to go and that opened the doors for us.”

Schrader took the lead coming out of turn two.

”That was it,” he said. “That made all of the difference. He got up high an extra foot there. If not, I never would have got around him.”

Hessert said he just a real small mistake, but it was enough for Schrader to win the race, which officially took 102 laps.

“He is so good at this place,” Hessert said. “He runs so well here. We do, too. Man, we were so close.”

Venturini Motorsports driver Justin Boston, in the No. 25 ZLOOP Computer & Electronics Recycling Toyota, passed his teammate Brennan Poole on the final lap to finish third, Poole, in the No. 15 Venturini Motorsports Toyota, finished fourth. Chris Windom, in the Roulo Brothers Racing No. 17 Ford, rounded out the top five. Mason Mitchell was sixth in the Empire Racing-Happy Cheeks Ford with Kimmel seventh, Kelly Kovski eighth, A.J. Fike ninth and Taylor Ferns 10th.

Boston, Poole and Ferns gave Venturini Motorsports three top 10 finishes.

SCOTT Rookie Challenge winner Boston finished in the top 10 for the seventh straight week. He seemed to be in the top five the whole race.

“I was really just trying to be cautious as possible while being aggressive,” Boston said. “I just tried to be consistent and not make any mistakes and let everyone else make mistakes. We had really good track position today and it paid off for us.”

Fourteen cars finished on the lead lap, including Jason Basham in 14th place in the Darrell Basham Racing Chevrolet. Josh Williams, in the No. 99 Allegiant Travel-Roulo Brothers Racing Ford finished 13th after having to change engines and Ryan Unzicker finished 11th place, including a highlight-reel save on the front stretch when he avoided crashing into a spinning Kimmel.

Mason Mingus, the SCOTT Rookie Challenge leader and second in overall ARCA points, finished 12th in the 811 Call Before You Dig Toyota.

The traditional Labor Day race closed the 91st DuQuoin State Fair. Schrader has now won three poles and three races at the Magic Mile. He led 47 laps Monday.He became the oldest winner in series history at Toledo in May and set the mark again Monday.

Hessert led 33 laps and Windom 19.

There were eight cautions for 34 laps for the race, which took 1 hour and 19 minutes to complete.

The ARCA Racing Series has four races remaining in the 2013 season. The series travels to Iowa Speedway next week for a Saturday night race, leaving races at Salem, Kentucky and Kansas on the schedule.

 

Pos
Car
Driver
Sponsor
Laps
Race Diff
Lap Diff
Last Time
Last Speed
Best Time
Best Speed
Points
1
52
Ken Schrader
Federated Auto Parts
102
0.000
0.000
35.109
102.538
33.898
106.201
720
2
77
Tom Hessert
Barbera’s Autoland
102
-0.565
-0.158
35.267
102.078
34.014
105.839
3840
3
25
Justin Boston
ZLOOP Computer & Ele…
102
-1.370
-0.299
35.408
101.672
34.077
105.643
3940
4
15
Brennan Poole
Venturini Motorsport…
102
-1.840
-1.014
36.123
99.66
33.927
106.11
1065
5
17
Chris Windom
Roulo Brothers Racin…
102
-2.441
-0.607
35.716
100.795
34.076
105.646
375
6
82
Mason Mitchell
Happy Cheeks
102
-2.857
-0.797
35.906
100.262
34.431
104.557
3335
7
44
Frank Kimmel
Ansell-Menards
102
-2.991
-0.281
35.39
101.724
33.886
106.239
4410
8
16
Kelly Kovski
Billingsley EZ Car W…
102
-3.121
-0.731
35.84
100.446
33.865
106.304
745
9
11
A.J. Fike
RFMS-Liberty Village
102
-4.092
-0.878
35.987
100.036
34.363
104.764
410
10
55
Taylor Ferns
Nat’l Auto Placement…
102
-5.238
-1.311
36.42
98.847
34.629
103.959
1005
11
66
Ryan Unzicker
Hendren Motor Sports
102
-5.452
-1.203
36.312
99.141
34.529
104.26
340
12
32
Mason Mingus
811 Call Before You …
102
-6.887
-1.937
37.046
97.176
34.668
103.842
4105
13
99
Josh Williams
Allegiant Travel-Rou…
102
-7.027
-1.605
36.714
98.055
34.774
103.526
3595
14
34
Jason Basham
Darrell Basham Racin…
102
-8.473
-2.087
37.196
96.785
36.132
99.635
575
15
22
Tyler Reddick
Cunningham Motorspor…
100
-2 laps
-2 laps
40.981
87.846
34.634
103.944
160
16
35
Milka Duno
Cantv-Milka Way
99
-3 laps
-3 laps
37.576
95.806
36.456
98.749
3335
17
5
Mark Littleton
Mason Sound
99
-3 laps
-3 laps
40.354
89.21
36.173
99.522
215
18
01
Austin Rettig
Retco Trailer Manufa…
98
-4 laps
-4 laps
42.223
85.262
35.348
101.844
370
19
56
Devin Steele
PHCC-AutosByNelson.c…
98
-4 laps
-4 laps
37.629
95.671
35.305
101.969
135
20
2
Thomas Praytor
Realtor
98
-4 laps
-4 laps
38.602
93.259
36.22
99.393
3170
21
24
Spencer Montgomery
SavMor Pharmacy-Ceda…
97
-5 laps
-5 laps
38.76
92.879
36.538
98.528
210
22
71
Shane Cockrum
Illinois Lottery
94
-8 laps
-8 laps
41.667
86.399
34.446
104.511
300
23
40
Dominick Casola
Carter 2 Motorsports
92
-10 laps
-10 laps
41.143
87.5
38.389
93.777
700
24
69
Will Kimmel
Messina Wildlife
72
-30 laps
-30 laps
34.958
102.981
33.931
106.098
2965
25
10
Tyler Speer
Mallory Marine
53
-49 laps
-49 laps
74.618
48.246
34.565
104.152
395
26
48
James Hylton
Radon.com
26
-76 laps
-76 laps
68.035
52.914
38.424
93.691
2610
27
06
James Swanson
GreatRailing.com-Way…
18
-84 laps
-84 laps
37.062
97.134
36.409
98.877
2390
28
97
Roger Carter
Carter 2 Motorsports
8
-94 laps
-94 laps
38.64
93.168
38.64
93.168
2445
29
1
Michael Covington
Covington Racing
7
-95 laps
-95 laps
42.665
84.378
42.665
84.378
60
30
3
Josh White
Hixson Construction
6
-96 laps
-96 laps
87.276
41.248
39.443
91.271
155
31
68
Chris Bailey
Clarksville Schwinn
2
-100 laps
-100 laps
36.795
97.839
36.795
97.839
750

 

 

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