ARCA
Bainey to Compete for ROY Honors in '99
BAINEY TO COMPETE FOR STP-PRESTONE ARCA ROOKIE OF YEAR TOLEDO, OH -- Osceola Mills, Pennsylvania driver Tim Bainey has announced his intention to compete for the 1999 STP-Prestone ARCA Rookie of the Year award on the ARCA Bondo/Mar-Hyde ...
Edited: May 8, 2001, 12:19 PM
Copy link
Share on Viber
BAINEY TO COMPETE FOR STP-PRESTONE ARCA ROOKIE OF YEAR
TOLEDO, OH -- Osceola Mills, Pennsylvania driver Tim Bainey has announced his intention to compete for the 1999 STP-Prestone ARCA Rookie of the Year award on the ARCA Bondo/Mar-Hyde Series.
Should Bainey, a 20-year veteran of pavement short track late model racing, win the award he would become the 4th Pennsylvanian since 1988 to be named the top rookie on the stock car racing circuit. Lebanon resident Bobby Gerhart won the award in '88, Graham Taylor of Port Royal was the '89 honoree and Blaise Alexander of Montoursville was the STP-Prestone ARCA Rookie of the Year in '96.
"We decided a couple seasons ago to pursue more races on the ARCA Bondo/Mar-Hyde Series, because on our budget it allows us to race the paved short track venues we are familiar with as well as get experience on superspeedways like Daytona, Talladega, Atlanta, Charlotte, Michigan and of course our homestate superspeedway at Pocono," said Bainey. "In the limited number of races we have run, the series has been a great place for our team to get involved in big league stock car racing."
Bainey, 40, began his racing career in 1978 at Clearfield Speedway and was the 1985 champion there. He has raced in the street stock, Pro-4 series and late model divisions prior to his first ARCA Bondo/Mar-Hyde Series event in 1997. In 8 starts over the past two seasons, Bainey has qualified in the top-10 twice with a best finish of 10th at Kil Kare Speedway in Xenia Ohio and a top superspeedway finish of 11th at Pocono.
The 1999 ARCA Bondo/Mar-Hyde Series schedule will be released at the series awards banquet Dec. 12 in Cincinnati Ohio and will contain 20-22 events at superspeedways, short tracks and mile dirt tracks with every event televised.
Bainey will get a jump start on the '99 season when his team participates in the ARCA open test session at Daytona Int'l Speedway in Daytona Beach Florida on Dec. 18-20. The test is in preparation for the 1999 ARCA Bondo/Mar-Hyde Series season opener Firstplus Financial Daytona ARCA 200 Feb. 7 which will be televised live on ESPN.
We want your opinion!
What would you like to see on Motorsport.com?
Take our 5 minute survey.
- The Motorsport.com Team
Read and post comments
Read also :
Share Or Save This Story
Copy link
Share on Viber
Previous article 1998 Year-End Review Year-End
Next article 1998 Banquet Held in Cincinnati
Top Comments
There are no comments at the moment. Would you like to write one?
View More & Comment
More from
Bobby Gerhart
Austin Dillon on pole for XFINITY season-opener at Daytona
NASCAR O'Reilly
NASCAR O'Reilly
Daytona
Austin Dillon on pole for XFINITY season-opener at Daytona
Controversy brewing in the ARCA series
ARCA
ARCA
Controversy brewing in the ARCA series
ARCA again starts its season at Daytona on February 14, 2015
ARCA
ARCA
ARCA again starts its season at Daytona on February 14, 2015
Latest news
Manthey acknowledges IMSA to be "tougher than expected" despite two wins
IMSA
IMSA IMSA 2 h
Manthey acknowledges IMSA to be "tougher than expected" despite two wins
How a philosophy shift brought BMW to new heights in 2026
IMSA
IMSA IMSA 2 h
How a philosophy shift brought BMW to new heights in 2026
Fred Vasseur reveals two costly moments that denied Ferrari US GP double podium
Formula 1
F1 Formula 1
United States GP
2 h
Fred Vasseur reveals two costly moments that denied Ferrari US GP double podium
Cleetus McFarland set to compete full-time for 2027 ARCA championship
ARCA
ARCA ARCA 3 h
Cleetus McFarland set to compete full-time for 2027 ARCA championship
Subscribe and access Motorsport.com with your ad-blocker.
From Formula 1 to MotoGP we report straight from the paddock because we love our sport, just like you. In order to keep delivering our expert journalism, our website uses advertising. Still, we want to give you the opportunity to enjoy an ad-free and tracker-free website and to continue using your adblocker.
You have 2 options:
- Become a subscriber.
- Disable your adblocker.
Subscribe now Already subscribed? Sign in here
Already disabled your adblocker?
Reload page
Manage Alerts
Subscribe