For the first time this year, ARCA Menards Series drivers will make both left- and right-hand turns when they visit Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course for the second time in series history.
Six drivers are using the ARCA Dawn 150 in preparation for the NASCAR Camping World Truck Series race, also at Mid-Ohio, the following day.
Chief among those drivers is John Hunter Nemechek, who is making his ARCA debut in the No. 55 Venturini Motorsports Toyota.
Nemechek is one of a few drivers in the field with either a NASCAR or ARCA-sanctioned road course victory on his resume. Nemechek of course won the 2016 Truck Series race at Canadian Tire Motorsport Park with a memorable finish.
Nemechek will have Jesse Love, Toni Breidinger and Parker Chase as his teammates.
Chase has a plethora of road course racing experience. Love won the first ARCA Menards Series West race at Utah Motorsports Campus in 2020. Breidinger, on the other hand, will make her first ARCA road course start at Mid-Ohio.
“I mean the tracks are like pretty much identical,” Breidinger said in a General Tire YouTube video about comparing iRacing to actually racing on the track. “They’re like if there’s a bump in the track, you’re going to feel it in the simulator, so it’s definitely really cool. It’s a great resource, especially when I’m going to all these new tracks this year. I’m definitely going to be relying on that.”
The other drivers running double-duty are Taylor Gray, Colby Howard, Blaine Perkins, Kris Wright and Jack Wood.
Gray won the 2021 ARCA West race at Portland International Raceway, though this trip to Mid-Ohio will be his first time at this 2.258-mile road course.
Wright finished one lap down in eighth place at the ARCA race at Mid-Ohio last year, and he is back piloting the No. 42 Cook Racing Technologies Chevrolet.
“Couldn’t be more excited to be going back to Mid-Ohio this weekend in the ARCA Menards Series,” Wright tweeted. “We had great speed last year and couldn’t be more excited to have Big Dog Energy riding along with us.” Wright’s No. 42 will stand out in the 25-driver field.
Kris Wright’s 2022 Big Dog Energy car pic.twitter.com/ra39cYgGMe
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Wright, Howard, Perkins and Wood all must win to make the Truck Series playoffs.
For Howard, Perkins, and Wood, the ARCA hour-long joint practice/qualifying session and Dawn 150 will give them…
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