ARCA Menards Series at Berlin Raceway – Berlin ARCA 200 pre-race notes

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  • The Berlin ARCA 200 at Berlin Raceway will be the sixth of 20 races on the ARCA Menards Series schedule, and the first short track race of the season. 
  • The Berlin ARCA 200 will be the 33rd race at Berlin Raceway dating back to the first, won by Les Snow, in 1958. 
  • Jesse Love enters the Berlin ARCA 200 with a 13-point lead in the ARCA Menards Series championship standings over leading Bounty Rookie Challenge contender, Hollywood superstar Frankie Muniz. Love has won the last three consecutive ARCA Menards Series races, at Talladega Superspeedway, Kansas Speedway, and Charlotte Motor Speedway. 
  • Former winners at Berlin Raceway include Les Snow, Nelson Stacy, Bob James (2), Don White, Harold Smith, Iggy Katona, Andy Hampton, Ramo Stott, Bob Senneker, Bob Keselowski, Frank Kimmel (3), Tim Steele (2), Fred Campbell, Joey Miller, Brian Keselowski (2), Scott Speed, Justin Lofton, Joey Coulter, Matt Merrell, Chris Buescher, Erik Jones, Grant Enfinger (2), Dalton Sargeant, Joe Graf, Jr., Daniel Dye, and Sammy Smith. 
  • The Berlin ARCA 200 will be the 182nd ARCA Menards Series race in the state of Michigan. 
  • Bob Senneker, Bob Keselowski, Fred Campbell, Brian Keselowski, Joey Coulter, Matt Merrell, Erik Jones, Dalton Sargeant, Joe Graf, Jr., Daniel Dye, and Sammy Smith all earned their first career ARCA Menards Series victory at Berlin Raceway. For Senneker, Campbell, Coulter, Merrell, Jones, Graf, and Dye it is their only win to date. 
  • Brian Campbell holds the Berlin Raceway qualifying record at 15.014 seconds/105.018 miles per hour, set in 2010. 
  • Matt Merrell set the 200-lap race record at Berlin Raceway with his win in 2011 at 1 hour, 10 minutes, 21 seconds/85.272 miles per hour. 
  • Frankie Muniz is the only driver to have completed each of the 519 possible race laps in the first five races of 2023. Tony Cosentino is second in the laps completed category, with 515 laps completed. 
  • Love leads the series full-time competitors with a 7.4 average finish in the first five races of the season. Muniz is second in the average finish category at 8.0. 
  • The record for the most cautions, 14, was set in 2005 in a race won by Joey Miller. The record for fewest cautions, two, was set in 2012 in a race won by Chris Buescher. 
  • Tim Steele holds the record for most laps led by a winner at Berlin Raceway, leading all 200 on his way to the win in 2001. Grant Enfinger (2015) and Daniel Dye (2021) led 198 laps on their way to their respective victories. 
  • Should the race need to be extended into overtime, there will be unlimited attempts at a two-lap “green-white-checkered” finish. Should the caution flag be displayed after the white flag is displayed, there will be unlimited attempts at a one-lap “green and white together” finish. 

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