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ARCA Veteran Brad Smith Guests ON PIT ROW Tuesday

After 21 years of Racing in the ARCA RE/MAX Series, Brad Smith has a unique perspective on big time auto racing.

Joining The Pit Crew live from the Toledo Speedway Bar and Grille will be the long time independent car owner and driver.  Smith got his start in ARCA in 1988 and has seen the many changes that have been made to the series over the years.

Brad will join in on the discussion starting in the second hour of ON PIT ROW, beginning at 6pm ET.  ON PIT ROW can be heard via live stream at www.onpitrow.com or at www.arcaracing.com if you do not have a local radio station carrying the show in your area.

While much of the focus of the end of the 2008 season revolved around the tight points battle and subsequent interaction between Scott Speed, Ricky Stenhouse Jr., Justin Allgaier and Frank Kimmell; Smith will be able to give his perspective on his battles in the points and what inspires him to return to this form of racing year after year.

In the years that Brad has run in the RE/MAX Series, his best finishes have been twelfths at Salem, Winchester and Pocono.  2001 saw Smith finish a career high, thirteenth in drivers points.  Listen in to hear what motivates this Engineer and Business major to follow his love for automobile racing on the ARCA RE/MAX circuit.

Last weeks 90 minute INSIDE ARCA show was the last one for the 2008 race season.  INSIDE ARCA will now be part of ON PIT ROW throughout the off season, with the 90 minute version returning before Speedweeks in 2009.  Tune in to ON PIT ROW to get all your ARCA post season info.

photo credit: BethAnne Heisler/ON PIT ROW

Live from Berlin Raceway it’s the ARCA RE/MAX 200

The Pit Crew is hitting the road again this weekend.

Steve Wronkowicz and ARCA’s Don Radebaugh will call the race and I’ll call the pit road action for the ARCA Radio Network, live today, Saturday July 25, from Berlin Raceway in Marne, Michigan.

Last night’s Craftsman Truck Series winner, Johnny Benson, is the owner of Berlin Raceway.  Berlin is a unique track.  A bit under a half mile in length, with virtually no straight-a-way and no retaining wall along the backstretch.

We’ll start the day with live coverage of Sim Factory qualifying, starting around 4:30 pm EDT.

A thirty minute pre-race show for the ARCA RE/MAX 200 will start at 8 pm, with the call of the race to follow. You can listen to all of it live at arcaracing.com.

Photo credit - arcaracing.com

Live from Cayuga Motor Speedway!

There’s a real Buzz around the ON PIT ROW garage this week.  The ARCA RE/MAX Series has announced their plan to provide live streaming audio coverage of the Cayuga ARCA RE/MAX 250 to begin at 1:00 PM EDT this Sunday June 29th. 

It’s all part of a plan to webcast the seven 2008 ARCA RE/MAX Series races that will not be carried on live TV, beginning with the 250 lap event from Cayuga Motor Speedway.  

My partner Steve Wronkowicz will call the race and I will be there, along with ARCA’s Don Radebaugh to provide color commentary and reports from the infield.  We’re pretty pumped!

Make sure you tune in the live webcast, starting at 1:00 pm Sunday.  Go to arcaracing.com where Team Glock Racing will present the call of the race and live timing and scoring as well.

Photo credit: BethAnne Heisler - ON PIT ROW

Try our “Rattles from the Catch Can” Quiz and Win Stuff

Do you think you are up on the latest from the NASCAR internet?  Take a shot at our first ever quiz.  We’re calling it Rattles from the Catch Can.  The plan is to take the names of all those who get perfect scores - seven for seven - and that would be 7 correct answers for you contest lawyers out there, and we will pick a winner.  The big winner will get, let’s see…

• DVD “The Daytona 500 - 50 years of the Great American Race”
• ARCA RE/MAX Series official hat
• Crown Royal-Dan Lowry 400 # 26 Jamie McMurray hat
• Boris Said - No Fear Racing T-shirt - great shirt!
• 1 set of “ON PIT ROW”/ “INSIDE ARCA” Mardi Gras beads

All you have to do is play - and keep playing ’till you get it right! Make sure that you enter your email address at the end.  It’s how we validate your score.

If you want to feature this contest on your blog or site by all means be our guest.  And let us know what you think of our first “Rattles from the Catch Can”.

Larry McReynolds Belongs ON PIT ROW

The ON PIT ROW guest line-up today is headed by a guy who belongs.  Fox Sports NASCAR analyst and veteran crew chief Larry McReynolds returns to talk about last week at Richmond and the up coming Darington and Charlotte weekends.

Speaking of Richmond, we’ll talk to Dan Lowry, winner of the Crown Royal contest that made him the title sponsor of the Dan Lowry 400 at Richmond International Raceway.

Kerry Tharp, NASCAR’s Director of Competition Communications will join us as well.

Listen live starting at 5 pm EDT right here at OnPitRow.com.

Starting at 7pm, INSIDE ARCA is loaded too.  Carolina 500 winner Joey Logano will tell us about his dominating victory at The Rock.  This is our first chance to talk to Joey and we have plenty of questions.

Our ARCA Insider Phil Parsons will be here as will regular guest Patrick Donahue, crew chief for Eddie Sharp Racing.  It was a tough weekend for ESR.  We’ll ask Patrick what happened.

We get a preview of the ARCA RE/MAX Series’ race at Kentucky Speedway next Saturday with Tim Bray, Director of Communications for the Speedway.

The night of ON PIT RADIO will wind up with the ARCA Short Track Report and  a visit from ARCA Lincoln Welders Truck Series’ Nick Gullatta, winner at Winchester last weekend

Join us at the Toledo Speedway Bar & Grill or tune your radio to Fox Sports Radio 1230 am in Toledo or on the net at OnPitRow.com.

ON PIT ROW & INSIDE ARCA Doubleheader Dynomite Today at 5

Bobby Allison is a tough act to follow. Add to the Hall of Famer a roster of Boris Said, ARCA Insider and former Talladega winner, Phil Parsons, ARCA Iowa winner Matt Hawkins and Red Bull crew chief Patrick Donahue….. Well Steve had a big show to live up to. And he did!

Today - with prayers to the live radio gods - ON PIT ROW will have David Ragan to talk about a week that included a road course in Mexico, plate races in Talladega and short track testing in Toledo.

Later we’ll have Yates Racing driver David Gilliland and one other surprise guest. You’ll have to tune in or come on out to the Toledo Speedway Bar & Grill for that one.

INSIDE ARCA will feature ARCA RE/MAX Series points leader Matt Carter, a return visit from Patrick Donahue - this time as the crew chief of the Kansas 150 Grand winning #2 driven by Scott Speed.

Our ARCA Insider Phil Parsons will be here for his weekly look into the ARCA RE/MAX Series and Kansas Race winner Scott Speed will join us as well.

Rounding out the night of ON PIT RADIO is the ARCA Short Track Report with guests Michigan Motorsports Hall of Famer, Gary Lindahl and ARCA Lincoln Welders Truck Series points leader Steve Christman to talk about his win at Anderson Speedway.

So what are ya’ gonna do next week Steve?

UPDATE:  The surprise guest was Andy Hillenburg, owner of The Rock - Rockingham Speedway -  and is Andy ever pumped for this week’s Carolina 500!  Did you know that they are going to start 50 ARCA RE/MAX  cars in that race?  Can’t wait.

Photo credit: Icon Sports Media, Inc.

Bobby Allison ON PIT ROW today!

NASCAR legend Bobby Allison will head another stellar cast of contributors to our weekly night of racin’ chat, broadcast live from the Toledo Speedway.

ON PIT ROW will start the night with Fox Sports senior writer Lee Spencer and her insight into everything NASCAR. Lee is one of our favorite people and she always has the good stuff on what’s happening at the track and in the garages.

Bobby Allison will return for his third time ON PIT ROW. Who could be better than one of the original Alabama Boys to talk about Talladega and NASCAR.

Steve’s working on another surprise or two as well, so tune in to the live stream at 5 PM EDT right here at OnPitRow.com

The On Pit Radio night continues from the Speedway with INSIDE ARCA. Listen live to The ARCA RE/MAX Power Hour featuring Iowa winner Matt Hawkins.

We’ll check in with our ARCA Insider Phil Parsons and get the scoop on the Iowa weekend and what to look for at Kansas. Crew chief Patrick Donahue will be back with more on the nuts and bolts of running an ARCA operation.

The ARCA Short Track Report will feature short track veteran Ron Allen who is closing in on his 100th ARCA victory.

You can listen to all of this right here as well as at ArcaRacing.com for the ARCA programming.

Update!  Steve-O came through again!  Special guest at 6:05 PM EDT - Boris Said! 

Inside the ARCA RE/MAX Series special guest

In the preview post for yesterday’s ON PIT RADIO night at historic Toledo Speedway I mentioned a possible, surprise guest. Well that guest was Ron Drager, president of ARCA.

Ron joined us on the Speedway stage and shared with our audience the state of the ARCA RE/MAX Series including the extension of the series sponsorship agreement with RE/MAX through the 2011 season. He pointed out that, despite the rather depressed state of the housing and real estate market, RE/MAX sees the value of motorsport sponsorship via ARCA’s top series.

There was much more to the interview. There will be a podcast of the entire show at ARCA’s website soon. We’ll let you know when it’s up.

Photo credit: BethAnne Heisler - ON PIT ROW 

Scott Riggs ON PIT ROW Today!

Scott Riggs, driver of the #66 State Water Heaters Chevy for Haas CNC Racing will be one of many guests tonight as ON PIT ROW helps to kick off the race season at historic Toledo Speedway.

Scott is fresh off his 27th place finish at Texas Motor Speedway and he and crew chief Bootie Barker have the #66 solidly in the critical top thirty five of owner’s points. Riggs is a veteran - and race former winner - of the ARCA RE/MAX Series so he’s a great guest for our first ever hour of ON PIT RADIO night from the Speedway.

Joining Scott today and starting off hour number two will be Fox Sports own Jeff Hammond, with his usual insight and a big announcement too.

David Poole of The Charlotte Observer and Sirius’ “The Morning Drive” will be around for the 6:30 pm slot to talk about what - if anything - NASCAR needs to do to the new car.

ARCA star Justin Allgaier will be the first guest ever “Inside the ARCA RE/MAX Series” live from the Speedway Bar and Grill. Justin is one of the favorites this weekend at Salem Speedway after winning the fall 2007 race there.

Ron Varney, head man with the ASA will stop by to talk about the big Glass Breaker 125 for ASA Late Models and USPRO Cup Series races that will be hosted by Toledo Speedway this weekend.

And there’s more, including the strong possibility of a special surprise guest. But that’s the beauty of live radio. You just never know for sure what you’ll get. So stop by the Toledo Speedway Bar and Grill if you can. If not tune in to ON PIT ROW on any On pit Radio Network station or listen to the live streaming broadcast right here at OnPitRow.com.

Inside the ARCA RE/MAX Series can be heard on live stream at ArcaRacing.com and Wednesday nights at midnight on Fox Sports Radio WCWA 1230 am in NW Ohio.

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