University to Host Officials Training this Saturday
(TOLEDO, Ohio) – Officials from the Automobile Racing Club of America (ARCA) and The University of Northwestern Ohio (UNOH) have announced that the diverse Lima, Ohio-based school will extend its contract as the Official and Exclusive Educational University of the ARCA Racing Series presented by Menards for 2013.
The program is highlighted by the UNOH/ARCA Race Club, an internship program designed to allow students to participate in real-world situations as crew members on ARCA Racing Series teams. Thirty-plus students annually participate in the ARCA Race Club, working with existing ARCA teams during the course of the full ARCA season.
“More than 40 UNOH students have applied for the ARCA Race Club Program,” Jeff Jarvis, UNOH President said. “It’s a great program, and one that provides real-life training for kids who aspire to work in motorsports.”
The 2013 season marks the 10th that UHOH has served in this official capacity with the ARCA sanction. The program also offers cash contingency awards to those teams actively utilizing students as part of the internship program.
“The ARCA/UNOH partnership is one of the most gratifying of any I’m involved in,” commented Mark Gundrum, VP Business Development and Corporate Partnerships for ARCA. “The program helps the students; it helps the teams, and it helps individuals who seek to continue their education through the scholarship. It’s a great program.”
In addition, UNOH will continue to offer $10,000 in scholarship funding annually to eligible ARCA members, or their immediate family members.
UNOH Hosting ARCA Officials Tech Training Seminar Saturday
The University of Northwest Ohio will be hosting the annual ARCA Racing Series officials technical training session in the High Performance Motorsports Complex at UNOH Saturday, January 12.
Series officials, in preparation for the 2013 season, will learn technical measures regarding race, qualifying, impound and pit road procedures.
The UNOH complex features a wide-array of educational tools for automotive enthusiasts, including a 500-foot launching pad for drag racing classes, an eighth-mile asphalt oval for testing, and an obstacle course for testing off-road technology.
The ARCA Racing Series presented by Menards has crowned 30 ARCA national champions in 60 seasons since 1953, and has toured over 200 race tracks in 26 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 0.375 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.
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. Having completed its sixth decade after hundreds of thousands of miles of racing, ARCA administers over 100 race events each season in four professional touring series – the ARCA Racing Series, the ARCA CRA Super Series, the ARCA Truck Series, and new in 2013, the ARCA Midwest Tour – in addition to local weekly events at Ohio’s Toledo Speedway and Michigan’s Flat Rock Speedway.
