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  Category Stock Car Racing
  Inaugural 1953
  Champion Driver Frank Kimmel
  Website arcaracingcom


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Automobile Racing Club of America (ARCA) is an auto racing sanctioning body in the United States founded in 1953 by John Marcum . The current president of ARCA is Ron Drager . ARCA (aka the ARCA RE/MAX Series ) races Stock Cars similar to those seen in NASCAR 's Nextel Cup Series , and indeed most cars used in ARCA were previously used in NASCAR. ARCA's competitors contain a mix of both professional racers as well as hobby racers alike, in addition to younger competitors trying to make a name for themselves, sometimes driving as part of a Driver Development Program for a NASCAR team.

ARCA also sanctions a truck racing series called the ARCA Lincoln Welders Truck Series and owns the Toledo Speedway and Flat Rock Speedway . Formerly sanctioned the ARCA Midget Series which it ended in 2002.


HISTORY

Marcum founded the Midwest Association for Race Cars (MARC) in 1952 , and in 1964 the name was changed to the Automobile Racing Club of America. This is not to be confused with the organization founded in 1933 with the same name (now known as the Sports Car Club Of America ).

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