TOLEDO OH (11-20-09) - When Deborah Renshaw burst onto the ARCA scene in 2002, the competition was reaching fever pitch. Development teams were coming out of the woodwork and Frank Kimmel was on fire. Despite an ultra-competitive arena, Renshaw excelled in more ways than one.

Renshaw, driving for Bob Schacht Motorsports, showed the most promise among her female counterparts of the day. In just a handful of ARCA starts, she was rarely outside the top-10 with finishes of 7th at Nashville Superspeedway, 8th at Kentucky and 9th at Chicagoland. Renshaw was also impressive at Talladega and Pocono with 11th place runs. She even made one short track start at Salem where she qualified third and was running third inside of 10 laps to go when she got caught up in someone else's wreck. Nonetheless, in a very short period of time, the well-spoken, well-educated girl from Bowling Green, Kentucky was turning a lot of heads. Given her impressive ARCA marks, there was every reason to believe that bigger things were still ahead.  

Then, everything changed.

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TOLEDO OH (11-15-09) - Beau Slocumb competed in four ARCA RE/MAX Series races in 2009 earning a career-best fifth place finish at Kansas Speedway. He enjoyed his ARCA experience so much he wants to come back for the full schedule in 2010. Of course, that's easier said than done. It takes a lot of committed resources to run the whole year. But Slocumb is hopeful that things will work out. Actually, grateful, is more like it.

Slocumb, 24, was diagnosed with a rare form of cancer in January of 2009, just days before he was scheduled to make his ARCA debut at Daytona. After months and months of chemo treatments during a six month-long stay at the MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston, Texas, Slocumb was back inside a racecar in August for the ARCA race at Chicagoland.

TOLEDO, Ohio (November 13, 2009)-Mansfield Motorsports Park in Mansfield, Ohio, is the latest facility to confirm an ARCA Racing Series presented by RE/MAX event to its 2010 racing schedule. The second annual Tim Richmond Memorial ARCA 200 is slated for Saturday evening, July 17, 2010.

TOLEDO, Ohio (November 12, 2009)-The process of bringing ARCA Racing to Fort Worth's Texas Motor Speedway is in full swing, as exhibited by a private Hoosier Tire Test at the 1.5-mile Speedway Motorsports, Inc.-owned facility on Thursday.

TOLEDO, Ohio (November 11, 2009)-The early 1980s brought trying times as the ARCA community pondered how to proceed following the death of founder John Marcum but thanks to a dedicated group of new leaders the ARCA sanction established itself as a legitimate developmental series by decade's end. Speedway races became a staple on the ARCA schedule, long-time associations with tracks such as Pocono Raceway were formed and up-and-coming NASCAR drivers were noted for their ARCA speedway race wins. The stars of the 1980s, along with champions from each of ARCA's 56 years, will be honored at the ARCA RE/MAX Series Championship Awards Banquet in Covington, Kentucky, on Saturday evening, December 5.

(11-10-09) - 2009 ARCA RE/MAX Series champion Justin Lofton is scheduled to be a guest on NASCAR Race Hub tonight at 7:30 PM ET only on SPEED.