ARCA’s stock cars start the action Saturday with practice at 1:30 p.m. Practice for the CRA Street Stocks, Thunder Roadsters and Vores FWD Compacts follows. Qualifying starts at 5 p.m. with racing at 7.
Maine’s Austin Theriault attempts to build on his points lead in the ARCA 200 on Sunday. Theriault holds a 110-point lead over Florida’s Dalton Sargeant with eight races remaining. Both drivers have three wins this season. Theriault, whose lowest finish this season is ninth, gained some cushion in the points when Sargeant crashed out at Talladega Superspeedway in May and finished 27th.
Theriault has bounced back after suffering a fracture in his L1 vertebrae at Las Vegas Motor Speedway in 2016, when he was driving for Kyle Busch Motorsports. This season he’s piloting the No. 52 Ford for Ken Schrader Racing.
ARCA, now in its 65th season, first raced at Winchester in 1957.
“It’s important for the ARCA Racing Series presented by Menards to race at Winchester Speedway,” ARCA president Ron Drager said. “It’s exactly the type of Midwestern facility where the ARCA brand is well-known and has the chance to be successful. Winchester is big enough and fast enough to play to the very nature of our cars.”
NASCAR Camping World Truck Series driver Chase Briscoe won last year’s ARCA 200 in a late-race duel with Sargeant. With Briscoe off to the Truck series, Sargeant returns in the same No. 77 Cunningham Motorsports Ford that Briscoe won with last year.
Live audio, timing and scoring is available at arcaracing.com on both Saturday and Sunday.
Waynesfield Raceway Park: Waynesfield Raceway Park honors sprint car legend Jack Hewitt with the Hewitt Classic on Saturday. The way Thomas Meseraull has performed the past two years he might get a race named after him, too.
Meseraull has won the past two Hewitt Classic features. In 2015 he beat Dallas Hewitt and Kody Swanson for the win. In 2016 he repeated by holding off Dustin Stroup and Kyle Simon.
Dallas Hewitt leads Simon by six points in the Waynesfield standings with Luke Hall seven points back.
In addition to the Buckeye Outlaw Sprint Series, the AMSA Mini Sprints and UMP modifieds will also be in action. Gates open at 5 p.m. with hot laps at 6 and racing at 7.
Shady Bowl Speedway: The Waco Wayne 100 for late models highlights the Saturday action at the Bowl. The modifieds, street stocks, pure stocks, compacts and spectator drag races are also on the card. The late models will run a 100-lap feature paying $1,900 to win. All classes are points races except for the street stocks.
On Aug. 12, Shady Bowl will host Kids Night with a Book Bag giveaway. Kids will receive a free book bag with school supplies, while they last. Spectators interested in donating book bags, school supplies or cash to purchase additional items are asked to drop them off at the track tower.
Kil-Kare Dragway: The NHRA-sanctioned Summit ET Series highlights the Saturday action. Gates open at 11 a.m.
Edgewater Sports Park: The UMTR stick shift racers return to Edgewater's drag strip Saturday. The super pro, pro, sportsman, motorcycle and junior dragster divisions are also in action. Gates open at 2 p.m. with timed runs starting at 2:30. Racing starts at 6:30.
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