(TALLADEGA, Ala.) – ARCA Racing Series presented by Menards officials have cancelled all on-track activity at Talladega Superspeedway for today. Rain persisted through the afternoon, leaving the track closed.
Friday will proceed as scheduled for the ARCA Racing Series, with the garage opening at 8 a.m., practice taking place from 10-10:55 a.m., and the 94-lap International Motorsports Hall of Fame 250 at 4 p.m. All times are Central.
SPEED will air live television coverage of the race, and WTDR Thunder 92.7 FM will air the race over the radio in Alabama. ARCARacing.com will carry WTDR’s audio call, along with live timing and scoring.
2012 is the ARCA Racing Series presented by Menards’ 60th Anniversary Season, featuring 20 races at 18 tracks. The complete 2012 event schedule is available at ARCARacing.com.
The ARCA Racing Series presented by Menards has crowned an ARCA national champion each year since its inaugural season in 1953, and has toured over 200 race tracks in 28 states since its inception. The series has tested the abilities of drivers and race teams over the most diverse schedule of stock car racing events in the world, visiting tracks ranging from 0.4 mile to 2.66 miles in length, on both paved and dirt surfaces as well as a left- and right-turn road course in its most recent season. This year, the series will visit Alabama’s Mobile International Speedway and Minnesota’s Elko Speedway for the first time; ARCA’s first visit to Minnesota will give ARCA a race in a 29th state.
Founded by John and Mildred Marcum in 1953 in Toledo, Ohio, the Automobile Racing Club of America (ARCA) is recognized among the leading sanctioning bodies in the country. Closing in on completing its sixth decade after hundreds of thousands of miles of racing, ARCA administers over 100 race events each season in three professional touring series and local weekly events.
