ARCA

Iowa: Series qualifying report

ARCA RE/MAX Series Rookie Joey Coulter Earns Career First Menards Pole Award Presented by Ansell; Prairie Meadows 200 at 8 p.m. Central NEWTON IA (7-11-09)--ARCA RE/MAX Series Rookie of the Year contender Joey Coulter, in the No. 16 Darrell Gwynn ...

Published: Oct 2, 2009, 4:39 PM

Copy link

Share on Viber

Add as a preferred source

ARCA RE/MAX Series Rookie Joey Coulter Earns Career First Menards Pole Award Presented by Ansell; Prairie Meadows 200 at 8 p.m. Central

NEWTON IA (7-11-09)--ARCA RE/MAX Series Rookie of the Year contender Joey Coulter, in the No. 16 Darrell Gwynn Foundation-Tempest Cycles Chevrolet, earned his career first Menards Pole Award Presented by Ansell on Saturday evening at Iowa Speedway, circling the .875-mile short track in 23.45 seconds for a speed of 134.328 mph. He starts alongside current ARCA RE/MAX Series Point Leader Parker Kligerman (No. 77 Cunningham Motorsports Dodge) for Saturday night's Prairie Meadows 200, the tenth of 21 ARCA RE/MAX Series races on the 2009 schedule.

Coulter, who was second quickest during a practice session at Iowa Speedway on Friday afternoon, was the 15th of 37 cars to qualify on Saturday. Following his qualifying lap, he waited patiently with his team while his fellow ARCA RE/MAX Series competitors took their turns around the Newton, Iowa-based short track. The pole came just one week after Coulter posted his career best ARCA RE/MAX Series race finish of second at Mansfield Motorsports.

"I was pretty nervous throughout that entire qualifying session," said Coulter. "Ickler was fast in practice and he was the last car to go out. I knew that if anyone was going to beat our time it was going to be either Ickler or Lofton. I kept walking to the screen that was showing the times and checking if we were bumped off the pole or not. When Lofton didn't do it I just took a deep breath but I was still nervous because I had to wait for Ickler. I'm happy I got my first pole here because this is a great racetrack. This is my third time here but my first time racing at this track with the ARCA RE/MAX Series .The track has a lot of grip-you can run two and three wide here the entire time. Patience is always important at any racetrack but I think that if we can get a good lead early on and then conserve tires and fuel it will be beneficial to us."

Parker Kligerman, the 18-year-old recent high school graduate and current ARCA RE/MAX Series point leader, will start second in tonight's Prairie Meadows 200. Chris Buescher, Justin Lofton, Dakoda Armstrong, Brian Ickler, Johanna Long, Steve Arpin, James Buescher and Frank Kimmel made up the top-10 qualifiers.

Coulter joins Michael Annett (2007) and Steve Wallace (2006) as ARCA RE/MAX Series Pole Award Winners at Iowa Speedway. Pole Award qualifying was rained out in 2008 and the field was set by Car Owner Points.

The Prairie Meadows 200 rolls off at 8 p.m. Central. Check arcaracing.com for live Timing and Scoring, live audio and a live video feed of all on-track activities this weekend.

-credit: arca

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

Share Or Save This Story

Copy link

Share on Viber

Previous article Berlin: Tim George Jr preview

Next article Standings after Iowa

Top Comments

There are no comments at the moment. Would you like to write one?

View More & Comment

Latest news

NASCAR Cup Talladega starting lineup: Chase Briscoe beats Austin Hill for pole

NASCAR Cup

NAS NASCAR Cup

Talladega II

2 min

NASCAR Cup Talladega starting lineup: Chase Briscoe beats Austin Hill for pole

F1 United States GP: Lewis Hamilton pips Max Verstappen in FP3

Formula 1

F1 Formula 1

United States GP

8 min

F1 United States GP: Lewis Hamilton pips Max Verstappen in FP3

NASCAR plans to modify Phoenix dogleg to lessen driver loads

NASCAR Cup

NAS NASCAR Cup

Phoenix II

25 min

NASCAR plans to modify Phoenix dogleg to lessen driver loads

Lamborghini | Barcelona selected to host the 2027 Super Trofeo World Finals

Lamborghini Super Trofeo

LBST Lamborghini Super Trofeo

World Finals - Monza 2026

1 h

Lamborghini | Barcelona selected to host the 2027 Super Trofeo World Finals

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