(SALEM,
Ind. - April 6, 2012) - Sixteen-year-old Austin Rettig of Sikeston, Mo.
became the first ARCA Racing Series presented by Menards driver to turn
laps this season at Salem Speedway, which will host the Kentuckiana
Ford Dealers 200 on April 29.
Rettig
is testing today at the 0.555-mile oval in southern Indiana, and he's
just the first of a long line of testers who will practice at the track
in the coming weeks. In addition, the race track is hosting an open test
session tomorrow for all of the traveling series which will compete at
Salem this season.
Bill
Kimmel, who has seven wins at Salem as the former crew chief for
brother Frank Kimmel, is on site with Rettig today. Though Rettig's
family owns his car, Kimmel hopes to lend some knowledge to Rettig with
the intent of the 16-year-old making a race and truly competing for the
first time in an ARCA car.
"We're
here with Austin Rettig and he's doing very well," said Bill Kimmel.
"Our goal is to make the race on speed and right now, we've got him
comfortable in the car and going fast enough where he would be
comfortably in the field."
Twenty-one
cars are now entered for the April 29 race, the third of ARCA's 60th
Anniversary Season. The full entry list as it stands today is available
by clicking here.
From arcaracing.com
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