by Robbin Slaughter
GROVE CITY OH (5-9-08) - Not what we had in mind would be an understatement. Coming off our good run at Anderson we expected to be close to the front of the field at Winchester. We know that we are short on horse power with our little engine and didn't have a chance at the pole but we thought we would be better than tenth fastest after practice. We had to work hard just to get the truck up that far. Then just to make things worse one of our new tires went flat right before qualifying and we had to put another one on. Bottom line qualified 17th and finished 8th.

WINCHESTER IN (5-4-08) - ARCA Lincoln Welders Truck Series veteran Nick Gullatta, in the Thomson Automotive-Mr. Heater-Enerco Chevy Colorado, turned in a near-perfect performance Sunday afternoon at Winchester Speedway with a convincing victory in the Lincoln Welders 50-lap main event.

The Cleveland, Ohio driver earned the 2BKool Pole Award earlier in the day, then charged from the 10th starting position and tracked down Ron Wells in the closing stages to earn his fifth series victory in his 25th series start.

By Robbin Slaughter

GROVE CITY OH (5-1-08) - As you all probably know the first ARCA Lincoln Welders Truck Series race of the season is in the record books and seemed to come off pretty good. For us, about the only way it could have been better would have been if we had won. I think everyone, including our team, was quite surprised when we won the 2BKool pole award to start out the night! It was our first pole award since June 22, 2001 at Toledo Speedway.

ANDERSON IN (4-19-08) - ARCA Lincoln Welders Truck Series veteran Steve Christman, in the no. 19 Bagman Racing Chassis-R&B Fabrication Chevy S-10, led flag to flag Saturday night at Anderson Speedway to win the season opening Lincoln Welders 100.

Christman, debuting the new Bagman Chassis, started second, jumped into the lead at the onset and held the point to the very end.

However, Christman's victory did not come without serious effort as Rob Jones, in his own no. 39 R&B Contractors Chevrolet, pressured the eventual winner continuously over the course of the 100-lap race.

ANDERSON IN (4-14-08) - The ARCA Lincoln Welders Truck Series (ALWTS), in its tenth consecutive season of competition, is headed to Anderson Speedway in Anderson, Indiana for its 2008 season opener Saturday night, April 19th. 

The ARCA Lincoln Welders Truck Series has made three previous appearances at Anderson in 1999, 2000 and 2007 with Aaron Hulings, Troy Marciniak and Steve Cronenwett taking the wins respectively. The current ALWTS one-lap track record was set by three-time champ Chad Guinn (12.839 seconds) back in May of 2000.

INDIANAPOLIS IN (4-12-08)--The University of Toledo College of Engineering is back on board with Esterline Motorsports and the No. 10 Chevy for the 2008 ARCA Lincoln Welders Truck Series season. Owner/driver Tully Esterline plans on a partial schedule this season, competing in 10 ALWTS races, including season opener Anderson and his favorites Winchester, Toledo and Salem.

INDIANAPOLIS IN (4-8-08)--What's fast, hard-hitting, and takes lots of skill and finesse? ARCA racing, of course. But a recent weekend spent at a local ice arena taught truck series driver Tully Esterline that there's another hard-hitting sport out there, full of skilled, fast players (who just might be missing a few teeth).

As soon as Esterline's wife's coed ice hockey team found out that her husband was a driver, they were immediately intrigued. With Indianapolis being the racing capital of the world, it's hard to find anyone in the city who does not have an interest in it.

TOLEDO OH (4-4-08) - ARCA's Temperance, Michigan, home base was transformed into a school of sorts last Saturday when officials from the ARCA Lincoln Welders Truck Series showed up for hands-on training in an effort to be fully prepared for the upcoming ARCA Lincoln Welders Truck Series season, which kicks off on Saturday, April 19th at Anderson Speedway in Anderson, Indiana.

By Robbin Slaughter
(3-27-08) - It's been a few weeks since my last column and there hasn't been much news about the truck series on the ARCA site so I thought I write another one. First if any of the Truck Series teams have any news or updates they would like me to add to my column please send them to me. If I'm going to keep doing this I need something to write about.

TOLEDO OH (2-28-08) -- Bulletins will be emailed, if you know of a fellow competitor who is not receiving the emails, please have themcontact me so I may addthem to my email list.

Robbin Slaughter is a 2-time ARCA Lincoln Welders Truck Series champion. He is also acontributing columnist at arcaracing.com.

GROVE CITY OH (2-22/23-08) -By Robbin Slaughter - With less than two months to go before our first race and the strong encouragement of ARCA PR Director Don Radebaugh I decided to throw a "column" together. Other than doing the "blog" on our website I haven't done any writing for awhile and I may be a little rusty so bear with me. As soon as I received the message from Don about writing something I started thinking about all the different things I would like to write about like what is going on with our team, the great truck series schedule, the new ARCA website and even the new ARCA sim racing software that is due out any time now.

MERCED CA (1-25-08)--Officials from the Automobile Racing Club of America have announced the expansion of the ARCA West Late Model Challenge Series. Under the terms of the expansion, the NEWALTA Late Model Challenge Series will combine with ARCA West to become the ARCA West Late Model Challenge Series in 2008.

OWENSBORO KY (1-24-08) - Tom Wieck Auctions presents the Kentucky Racers Auction & Trade Show coming February 1, 2 & 3 at the Rivermont Inn Expo Center in Owensboro, Kentucky.

New Stops in Iowa, Canada, Ohio Spice-Up 08 Tour
TOLEDO OH (11-30-07) - With a full head of steam, and a title sponsor signed through 2009, the ARCA Lincoln Welders Truck Series, headed toward its 10th consecutive season of competition, has released its 2008 schedule with 15 championship events across six states and Canada.

TOLEDO OH (10-13-07) - Nick Gullatta, in the no. 31 Thomson Automotive-Enerco-Mr. Heater Chevy Colorado, captured the 2BKool Fast Time Award for Saturday's Champion Credit Union 50 at Toledo Speedway. The Cleveland, Ohio driver, who qualified withan average speed of 103.046 mph,also narrowed the gap in championship points to 50 markers away from current point leader Bill Withers heading into this afternoon's main event. Gullatta, after rolling a 5 on the dice, will start fifth by inversion. Withers, whoqualified 11th, starts 11th.

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