Canadian Steve Arpin Tops Afternoon as Goess Takes Day at ARCA Chicagoland Test

JOLIET, IL - Steve Arpin drove the No. 55 Mike's Hard Lemonade Toyota to the fastest lap in the afternoon session of ARCA Racing Series presented by RE/MAX and Menards testing at the 1.5-mile Chicagoland Speedway, but Craig Goess's morning speed held up as the day's fastest. 19 drivers and 20 cars participated.

Arpin drove the Venturini Motorsports Toyota to his best of 21 afternoon laps in 30.829 seconds (175.160 mph), falling just short of Goess's 30.807-second (175.285 mph) morning effort in the No. 81 Greenville Toyota of N.C. Toyota for Eddie Sharp Racing.

Mikey Kile, who had finished second in the opening test session, posted the afternoon's second-fastest time, at 30.922 seconds (174.633 mph) - an improvement of 0.145 second from the morning. Kile's effort listed third on the day's overall chart.

Chad McCumbee and Grant Enfinger filled out the top five for the afternoon.

Justin Marks, who was working out two different cars for Win-Tron Racing, brushed the wall at the exit of Turn 2.

The ARCA Racing Series races at Chicagoland Speedway on Friday, August 27, but will first run on the dirt of the Illinois State Fairgrounds in Springfield in Sunday's Allen Crowe 100.

The 100-lap, 100-mile Allen Crowe 100 is scheduled to begin at 1 p.m. Central (2 Eastern) on Sunday, August 22, with live timing and scoring and live audio coverage presented by ARCA Nation at ARCARacing.com.

The lone practice is scheduled for 9 a.m. Central, with Menards Pole Qualifying presented by Ansell - which has produced 11 different pole winners in 12 qualifying sessions this season - taking place at 11 a.m. Live audio coverage and live timing and scoring of all events will be available on ARCARacing.com.

The ARCA Racing Series presented by RE/MAX and Menards features 20 events at 17 tracks on its 2010 schedule. The series has crowned an ARCA national champion each year since its inaugural season in 1953, and has toured over 200 racetracks in 28 states since its inception. The series tests the abilities of drivers and race teams over the most diverse schedule of stock car racing events in the world, annually visiting tracks ranging from 0.4 mile to 2.66 miles in length, on both paved and dirt surfaces as well as left- and right-turn street and road courses.

Founded by John 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 two professional touring series and local weekly events.

From ARCA

ARCA RACING SERIES presented by RE/MAX and MENARDS     
Chicagoland Speedway, Joliet Illinois                  
Overall Open Test Results, August 19, 2010                     
                                                       
        CAR      DRIVER  MAKE    TIME    SPEED         
1        81      Craig Goess     Toyota  30.807  175.285               
2        55      Steve Arpin     Toyota  30.829  175.160               
3        25      Mikey Kile      Toyota  30.922  174.633               
4        31      Scott Wimmer    Chevy   31.131  173.461               
5        1       Chad McCumbee   Ford    31.316  172.436               
6        09      Grant Enfinger  Ford    31.352  172.238               
7        71      Max Gresham     Toyota  31.378  172.095               
8        32a     Justin Marks    Toyota  31.442  171.745               
9        15      Alli Owens      Chevy   31.599  170.891               
10       77a     Tom Hessert     Dodge   31.741  170.127               
11       31      Tim George, Jr.         Chevy   31.777  169.934               
12       17      Chris Buescher  Ford    31.785  169.891               
13       16      Joey Coulter    Chevy   31.785  169.891               
14       22      Dakoda Armstrong        Dodge   31.835  169.625               
15       11      Bryan Silas     Ford    32.037  168.555               
16       32b     Justin Marks    Toyota  32.182  167.796               
17       58      Chad Hackenbracht       Chevy   32.187  167.770               
18       77b     Tom Hessert     Dodge   32.511  166.098               
19       70      Tony Palumbo    Ford    32.767  164.800               
20       75      Benny Chastain  Ford    32.861  164.329               
21       7       Kent Schenkel   Dodge   33.132  162.984