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ARCA races at Toledo
Combination ARCA Menards Series and ARCA Menards Series East race in Toledo, Ohio
The Automobile Racing Club of America (ARCA) has hosted stock car racing events for the ARCA Menards Series and ARCA Menards Series East in Toledo, Ohio during numerous seasons and times of the year since 1953. Races were held at Toledo Raceway Park from 1953 through 1962, and at Toledo Speedway since 1963. The race is currently known as the Owens Corning 200.
01History
In its first year of operations in 1953, ARCA, then known as the Midwest Automobile Racing Club (MARC), debuted at the 0.5 mi (0.80 km) Toledo Raceway Park, with Jim Romine winning the inaugural race. Over the first ten years of the MARC Racing Series (excluding 1959), several races were held at the track per season, with as many as six in 1956. MARC's events in Toledo, Ohio were moved to the half-mile Toledo Speedway in 1963. Numerous events were held under the renamed ARCA's sanctioning until it was taken off the series' schedule from 1978 to 1983, after which it was removed once more in 1988. From 1990 to 1994 and 2004 to 2011, two ARCA races were held annually at the track, one in the springtime and the other in the fall. After a brief absence from the track in 1995, only one race was included on the calendar in 1996, 2003. Since 2012, ARCA has only hosted one annual race at Toledo, apart from 2020 when three races were held at the track because a Toledo doubleheader replaced races at the Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course and Elko Speedway due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
02ARCA Menards Series
Past winners
| Year | Date | No. | Driver | Team | Manufacturer | Race distance | Race time | Average speed (mph) |
Report | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Laps | Miles (km) | |||||||||
| 1953 | July 4 | Jim Romine | ||||||||
| August 15 | Iggy Katona | |||||||||
| August 16 | Jim Romine (2) | |||||||||
| August 16 | Jim Romine (3) | |||||||||
| 1954 | July 31 | Russ Hepler | ||||||||
| September 11 | Russ Hepler | |||||||||
| 1955 | June 4 | Ernie Derr | ||||||||
| July 10 | Bill Rexford | |||||||||
| August 27 | Iggy Katona (2) | |||||||||
| September 24 | Iggy Katona (3) | |||||||||
| 1956 | May 29 | Iggy Katona (4) | ||||||||
| May 29 | Russ Hepler | |||||||||
| July 4 | Jack Farris | |||||||||
| July 28 | Iggy Katona (5) | |||||||||
| September 2 | Kenny Wheeler | |||||||||
| September 23 | Paul Wensink | |||||||||
| 1957 | April 28 | Heshel White | ||||||||
| May 26 | Nelson Stacy | |||||||||
| July 6 | Jack Shanklin | |||||||||
| August 10 | Bob James | |||||||||
| 1958 | October 13, 1957 | Red Duvall | ||||||||
| May 24 | George Henderson | |||||||||
| July 26 | Bob James (2) | |||||||||
| 1959 | Not held | |||||||||
| 1960 | July 9 | Don White | ||||||||
| August 6 | Don White (2) | |||||||||
| 1961 | September 4 | Harold Smith | ||||||||
| 1962 | May 6 | Dick Freeman | ||||||||
| August 4 | Paul Parks | |||||||||
| 1963 | April 21 | Iggy Katona (6) | ||||||||
| 1964 | May 3 | Jim Cushman | ||||||||
| 1965 | May 23 | Jack Bowsher | ||||||||
| July 5 | Jack Bowsher (2) | |||||||||
| 1966 | May 1 | Iggy Katona (7) | ||||||||
| July 4 | Les Snow | |||||||||
| September 5 | Les Snow (2) | |||||||||
| 1967 | April 30 | Iggy Katona (8) | ||||||||
| September 4 | Andy Hampton | |||||||||
| 1968 | May 5 | Benny Parsons | ||||||||
| July 20 | Benny Parsons (2) | |||||||||
| 1969 | August 2 | Benny Parsons (3) | ||||||||
| 1970 | April 26 | Bobby Watson | ||||||||
| August 7 | Tom Bowsher | |||||||||
| September 7 | Tom Bowsher (2) | |||||||||
| 1971 | April 25 | Tom Bowsher (3) | ||||||||
| July 4 | Tom Bowsher (4) | |||||||||
| September 5 | Ramo Stott | |||||||||
| 1972 | July 2 | Ron Hutcherson | ||||||||
| August 18 | Joy Fair | |||||||||
| 1973 | May 6 | Bruce Gould | ||||||||
| July 1 | Bruce Gould (2) | |||||||||
| July 28 | Bruce Gould (3) | |||||||||
| 1974 | September 1 | Bruce Gould (4) | ||||||||
| 1975 | June 28 | Dave Dayton | ||||||||
| August 31 | Woody Fisher | |||||||||
| 1976 | June 27 | Dave Dayton (2) | ||||||||
| August 29 | Dave Dayton (3) | |||||||||
| 1977 | October 10, 1976 | Larry LaMay | ||||||||
| June 26 | Moose Myers | |||||||||
| September 11 | Moose Myers (2) | |||||||||
| 1978 , 1983 |
Not held | |||||||||
| 1984 | September 15 | Howard Rose | Report | |||||||
| 1985 | September 15 | 20 | Ed Hage | Judy Hage | Oldsmobile | 125 | 62.5 mi (100.584 km) | N/A | 71.383 | Report |
| 1986 | September 7 | 0 | Scott Stovall | Jim Stovall | Chevrolet | 125 | 62.5 mi (100.584 km) | N/A | N/A | Report |
| 1987 | May 31 | 25 | Bill Venturini | Venturini Motorsports | Chevrolet | 125 | 62.5 mi (100.584 km) | N/A | N/A | Report |
| 1988 | Not held | |||||||||
| 1989 | August 27 | 26 | Bob Strait | Roulo Brothers Racing | Chevrolet | 125 | 62.5 mi (100.584 km) | N/A | N/A | Report |
| 1990 | July 1 | 26 | Bob Strait (2) | Roulo Brothers Racing (2) | Chevrolet | 125 | 62.5 mi (100.584 km) | 0:48:11 | N/A | Report |
| August 26 | 29 | Bob Keselowski | K-Automotive Motorsports | Pontiac | 125 | 62.5 mi (100.584 km) | N/A | N/A | Report | |
| 1991 | May 26 | 21 | Bobby Bowsher | Jack Bowsher | Pontiac | 148* | 74.0 mi (119.091 km) | N/A | N/A | Report |
| August 25 | 21 | Bobby Bowsher (2) | Jack Bowsher (2) | Pontiac | 125 | 62.5 mi (100.584 km) | 0:48:25 | 77.506 | Report | |
| 1992 | May 24 | 80 | Bob Strait (3) | Strait Racing | Oldsmobile | 125 | 62.5 mi (100.584 km) | 0:54:56 | 68.265 | Report |
| August 30 | 21 | Bobby Bowsher (3) | Jack Bowsher (3) | Ford | 130 | 65.0 mi (104.607 km) | 0:47:41 | 81.79 | Report | |
| 1993 | May 30 | 21 | Bobby Bowsher (4) | Jack Bowsher (4) | Ford | 129* | 64.5 mi (103.802 km) | 0:57:45 | 67.013 | Report |
| September 12 | 39 | Dave Weltmeyer | Roulo Brothers Racing (3) | Chevrolet | 152* | 76.0 mi (122.310 km) | 0:53:42 | 84.916 | Report | |
| 1994 | May 22 | 02 | Frank Kimmel | Shirley Racing | Oldsmobile | 152* | 76.0 mi (122.310 km) | 1:05:58 | 69.126 | Report |
| September 11 | 21 | Bobby Bowsher (5) | Jack Bowsher (5) | Ford | 150 | 75.0 mi (120.700 km) | N/A | 59.867 | Report | |
| 1995 | Not held | |||||||||
| 1996 | July 7 | 46 | Frank Kimmel (2) | Steve Rauch Racing | Pontiac | 150 | 75.0 mi (120.700 km) | 0:59:45 | 74.68 | Report |
| 1997 | June 29 | 39 | Ken Schrader | Roulo Brothers Racing (4) | Chevrolet | 154* | 77.0 mi (123.919 km) | 0:59:42 | 77.386 | Report |
| 1998 | June 28 | 46 | Frank Kimmel (3) | Clement Racing | Chevrolet | 150 | 75.0 mi (120.700 km) | 0:52:05 | 86.4 | Report |
| 1999 | June 25 | 97 | Blaise Alexander | Blaise Alexander Racing | Chevrolet | 150 | 75.0 mi (120.700 km) | 1:00:13 | 74.73 | Report |
| 2000 | June 23 | 46 | Frank Kimmel (4) | Clement Racing (2) | Chevrolet | 149* | 74.5 mi (119.896 km) | 1:02:46 | 71.216 | Report |
| 2001 | September 16 | 46 | Frank Kimmel (5) | Clement Racing (3) | Chevrolet | 200 | 100.0 mi (160.934 km) | 1:26:25 | 69.431 | Report |
| 2002 | June 23 | 46 | Frank Kimmel (6) | Clement Racing (4) | Ford | 205* | 102.5 mi (164.957 km) | 1:41:00 | 60.89 | Report |
| 2003 | May 4 | 46 | Frank Kimmel (7) | Clement Racing (5) | Ford | 200 | 100.0 mi (160.934 km) | 1:29:14 | 67.239 | Report |
| 2004 | May 16 | 99 | Ken Schrader (2) | Ken Schrader Racing | Pontiac | 204* | 102.0 mi (164.153 km) | 1:47:32 | 56.913 | Report |
| September 3 | 46 | Frank Kimmel (8) | Clement Racing (6) | Ford | 200 | 100.0 mi (160.934 km) | 1:44:51 | 57.225 | Report | |
| 2005 | May 22 | 99 | Ken Schrader (3) | Ken Schrader Racing (2) | Chevrolet | 206* | 103.0 mi (165.762 km) | 1:59:50 | 51.572 | Report |
| September 2 | 46 | Frank Kimmel (9) | Clement Racing (7) | Ford | 205* | 102.5 mi (164.957 km) | 1:49:09 | 54.97 | Report | |
| 2006 | May 21 | 99 | Ken Schrader (4) | Ken Schrader Racing (3) | Chevrolet | 214* | 107.0 mi (172.199 km) | 1:34:00 | 68.298 | Report |
| September 1 | 35 | Chuck Barnes, Jr. | C. E. Clower | Chevrolet | 202* | 101.0 mi (162.543 km) | 1:47:07 | 56.574 | Report | |
| 2007 | May 20 | 22 | Ken Butler III | Eddie Sharp Racing | Dodge | 200 | 100.0 mi (160.934 km) | 1:46:22 | 56.409 | Report |
| October 14 | 2 | Michael McDowell | Eddie Sharp Racing (2) | Dodge | 200 | 100.0 mi (160.934 km) | 1:39:26 | 60.341 | Report | |
| 2008 | May 18 | 46 | Matt Carter | Clement Racing (8) | Ford | 204* | 102.0 mi (164.153 km) | 1:59:53 | 51.05 | Report |
| October 12 | 16 | Justin Allgaier | Allgaier Motorsports | Chevrolet | 200 | 100.0 mi (160.934 km) | 1:49:48 | 54.645 | Report | |
| 2009 | May 17 | 77 | Parker Kligerman | Cunningham Motorsports | Dodge | 205* | 102.5 mi (164.957 km) | 1:48:03 | 55.495 | Report |
| September 4 | 6 | Justin Lofton | Eddie Sharp Racing (3) | Toyota | 200 | 100.0 mi (160.934 km) | 1:43:05 | 58.205 | Report | |
| 2010 | May 23 | 17 | Chris Buescher | Roulo Brothers Racing (5) | Ford | 200 | 100.0 mi (160.934 km) | 1:31:42 | 64.431 | Report |
| September 12 | 17 | Chris Buescher (2) | Roulo Brothers Racing (6) | Ford | 200 | 100.0 mi (160.934 km) | 1:12:54 | 82.811 | Report | |
| 2011 | May 15 | 41 | Ty Dillon | Richard Childress Racing | Chevrolet | 200 | 100.0 mi (160.934 km) | 1:32:54 | 64.579 | Report |
| October 16 | 17 | Chris Buescher (3) | Roulo Brothers Racing (7) | Ford | 206* | 103.0 mi (165.762 km) | 1:47:38 | 57.409 | Report | |
| 2012 | May 20 | 17 | Chris Buescher (4) | Roulo Brothers Racing (8) | Ford | 200 | 100.0 mi (160.934 km) | 1:27:35 | 68.504 | Report |
| 2013 | May 19 | 52 | Ken Schrader (5) | Ken Schrader Racing (4) | Chevrolet | 200 | 100.0 mi (160.934 km) | 1:19:27 | 75.512 | Report |
| 2014 | May 18 | 25 | Justin Boston | Venturini Motorsports (2) | Toyota | 200 | 100.0 mi (160.934 km) | 1:15:31 | 79.453 | Report |
| 2015 | May 17 | 55 | Todd Gilliland* | Venturini Motorsports (3) | Toyota | 200 | 100.0 mi (160.934 km) | 1:38:55 | 60.662 | Report |
| 2016 | May 22 | 22 | Myatt Snider | Cunningham Motorsports (2) | Ford | 200 | 100.0 mi (160.934 km) | 1:27:35 | 78.92 | Report |
| 2017 | May 21 | 28 | Harrison Burton | MDM Motorsports | Toyota | 200 | 100.0 mi (160.934 km) | 1:46:12 | 56.494 | Report |
| 2018 | May 20 | 41 | Zane Smith | MDM Motorsports (2) | Toyota | 200 | 100.0 mi (160.934 km) | 1:19:30 | 75.477 | Report |
| 2019 | May 19 | 20 | Chandler Smith | Venturini Motorsports (4) | Toyota | 152* | 76.0 mi (122.310 km) | 0:59:22 | 76.811 | Report |
| 2020 | July 31 | 21 | Sam Mayer | GMS Racing | Chevrolet | 200 | 100.0 mi (160.934 km) | 1:14:50 | 80.178 | Report |
| August 1-2 | 21 | Sam Mayer (2) | GMS Racing (2) | Chevrolet | 127* | 63.5 mi (102.193 km) | 0:52:76 | 73.126 | Report | |
| September 12 | 21 | Sam Mayer (3) | GMS Racing (3) | Chevrolet | 200 | 100.0 mi (160.934 km) | 1:32:54 | 64.586 | Report | |
| 2021 | May 22 | 18 | Ty Gibbs | Joe Gibbs Racing | Toyota | 200 | 100.0 mi (160.934 km) | 1:16:47 | 78.142 | Report |
| 2022 | October 8 | 18 | Sammy Smith | Kyle Busch Motorsports | Toyota | 200 | 100.0 mi (160.934 km) | 1:16:47 | 75.188 | Report |
| 2023 | October 7 | 18 | William Sawalich | Joe Gibbs Racing (2) | Toyota | 200 | 100.0 mi (160.934 km) | 1:26:29 | 69.378 | Report |
| 2024 | October 5 | 18 | William Sawalich (2) | Joe Gibbs Racing (3) | Toyota | 200 | 100.0 mi (160.934 km) | 1:47:48 | 55.659 | Report |
| 2025 | October 4 | 18 | Max Reaves | Joe Gibbs Racing (4) | Toyota | 200 | 100.0 mi (160.934 km) | 1:11:14 | 84.23 | Report |
| 2026 | May 16 | 77 | Tristan McKee | Pinnacle Racing Group | Chevrolet | 200 | 100.0 mi (160.934 km) | 1:37:0 | 61.824 | Report |
- Notes
- 1991, 1993, 1994, 1997, 2002, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2008, 2009, & 2011: Race extended due to ARCA Menards Series overtime.
- 2000: Race shortened due to red flag.
- 2019 & 2020: Race shortened due to rain.
03ARCA Menards Series East
Past winners
| Year | Date | No. | Driver | Team | Manufacturer | Race distance | Race time | Average speed (mph) |
Report | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Laps | Miles (km) | |||||||||
| 2020 | June 13 | 18 | Ty Gibbs | Joe Gibbs Racing | Toyota | 204* | 102.0 mi (164.153 km) | 1:30:48 | 67.401 | Report |
| September 12 | 21 | Sam Mayer | GMS Racing | Chevrolet | 200 | 100.0 mi (160.934 km) | 1:32:54 | 64.586 | Report | |
| 2021, 2025 | Not held | |||||||||
| 2026 | May 16 | 77 | Tristan McKee | Pinnacle Racing Group | Chevrolet | 200 | 100.0 mi (160.934 km) | 1:37:0 | 61.824 | Report |
- 2020: Race extended due to ARCA Menards Series overtime.
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