When the green flag flies for the Bush’s Beans 200 at Bristol Motor Speedway on Thursday, Sept. 19, Logan Misuraca will have more pressure to perform than most in the ARCA Menards Series field.
For Misuraca, Bristol is her only scheduled start for the 2024 season.
“I think that’s why Bristol was such a, not even like a stressful thing for me, but it was the only one on the schedule for this year I have,” Misuraca told Frontstretch. “And for the foreseeable future, this is all I have lined up as of now.”
It’s not the Sanford, Fla., native’s first foray into ARCA. She raced in the ARCA Menards Series East race at her home track, New Smyrna Speedway, before competing in three races in the main ARCA series last year. But her last start came at Pocono Raceway in July of 2023.
Since then, she’s worked as a driver for the NASCAR Racing Experience and has raced a legends car, but nothing as big as an ARCA car since. All of her attempts to run a late model at New Smyrna this year have been impacted by weather.
“It was horrible,” Misuraca said. “You can probably ask the people in my life around me, I’ve been taking it out on them. Because I have no avenue to let me go out there and scratch this itch.
“… Even though [Bristol is] only 200 laps, I hope it lasts 12 hours. I need the full year’s worth of adrenaline.”
Fortunately for Misuraca, she’ll have a fast hot rod on Thursday night. She’ll be driving the No. 9 for Rev Racing. Her Rev teammates Andres Perez and Lavar Scott are currently first and second in the ARCA standings.
Clean Harbors, a waste management company that first partnered with Misuraca in 2023, stepped up to be the primary sponsor and help make this opportunity possible.
“I’ve always done a lot of work for them, whether it be appearances, and then I created more of a personal friendship, relationship with them,” Misuraca said.
Clean Harbors is the umbrella company that owns Safety-Kleen and many other companies.
“So they have all these different avenues to which I could help the brand out,” Misuraca said. “After getting to know them for a while, I was like, ‘Hey, wanna put Bristol on the schedule?’
The deal to do the race was signed the next day.
“When I met all the actual workers there, they’re more of like a family vibe when they’re working together,” Misuraca said. “Everyone knows everyone. There’s no animosity. … They’ve…
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