Ringoes,NJ – ARRA …Auto Racing Research Associates are happy to announce that they are accepting  nine more historians from across the nation and the racing spectrum to continue to “spread their wings” in an effort to expand their coverage of the sport of auto racing through their website of auto racing statistics!  What’s more….word is that there are still historians in the process of coming aboard to the swelling number of historians under the ARRA banner.

   “Historian Tom Schmeh for years bugged me to expand our horizons.” stated ARRA President Fred Voorhees when contacted about the newest additions to their fold.  “Finding dedicated auto racing historians that are willing to devote time to recording our sports history is tougher than I first thought!  I am constantly snooping around to see if I can find them, and through contacts here and there…I have suddenly come up with some possibilities.  Some have already agreed to join our effort and there are still some that are waiting in the wings.”

  This group of historians finds the results of the ARRA Presidents ambition to expand the popular groups spectrum of racing statistics. 

Tim Quievryn comes to us as not only a new historian to the ARRA group, but also brings along with him his very large statistical website titled “The Third Turn”, an auto racing reference site for stats and data and features information from the local racing to truly international levels.

Bobby Gerould joins us from California and comes to ARRA with a plethora of accolades in the sport.  An announcer at the Keller Auto Speedway in Hanford, CA and the Thunderbowl Speedway of Tulare, CA,  he has also been a tv statistician for the Sacramento Kings basketball team and is recognizable to racing fans as the CBS pit reporter for the World of Outlaws sprint car series and is the voice on the Ratbag computer World of Outlaws video game.  Bobby is also the webmaster behind the basketball website HoopObsession.com.

Jim Shanz is an Indy car and IMSA expert and local within the base ARRA geographical area in Hamilton, NJ.  Jim has been the announcer at the Trenton Speedway alongside of the famous Bill Singer for USAC racing and also assisted in the announcing for other “support” divisions racing there.  More recently, Schanz has been the PA announcer for the Pocono Speedway  Historical Indy Car sessions.  Active in IMSA radio broadcasts and TV telecasts, Jim joins us to bring us a collection of previously unpublished articles he had penned in the past and are now only available here at ARRA.

Jim Thurman is another California racing enthusiast and historian.  Growing up in California and attending many local and nationally known race tracks with his parents, Jim went on to study the auto racing history of California and contributed to many books on the history of auto racing in California, including the book “The History of America’s Speedways – Past and Present” by fellow ARRA historian Allan Brown

Mike Bell brings the ARRA coverage of auto racing into the Georgia area of the country.  The Gainesville, GA resident has written for many racing publications including Stock Car Racing and Short Track Racing.  An avid collector of auto racing information, he has settled into concentrating his auto racing research efforts on the state of Georgia, but has researched the racing in Florida, Alabama and North and South Carolina.

Bob Gardner Coming to us from San Diego, CA, Bob was a race fan as a little kid..going to the California area race tracks with his dad.  He went on to begin covering the sport while in high school…detailing the racing at the local El Cajon Speedway.  Bob would end up working at El Cajon..performing the publicist and webmaster for the speedway.  Gardner went on to write for several well know racing publications and currently concentrates on researching the auto racing history of California.

W. Pat Sullivan  Bloomington, IN native W. Pat Sullivan is an IUPUI Chancellor’s Professor and is very well known in the medical field of mental health.  On the racing side of things…Pat has spent over thirty years as an announcer at events spanning from NASCAR and Indy Car to the USAC division.  A feature writer for nationally known racing magazines and author and co-author of various racing related books, Pat has accumulated a plethora of distinguished awards in the sport!

Mark Southcott  Another Souther Tier region of New York State joins the ARRA group.  Mark Southcott grew up in a family steeped in racing – his Dad and Grandad competing on the local tracks.  He started his research career back in the ‘80s and became jokingly known as “Captain History” at his local Lancaster Speedway.  He has contributed to such notable research efforts such as Richie Evans and Jim Shampine and the Lancaster Heroes.  He is currently underway with an ongoing research of the great pavement driver George Kent.

Brian Pratt  Brian Pratt is a milestone historian for ARRA!  Brian represents the first historian member who resides outside of the United States!  Brian hails from the Vancouver, Canada area and we look forward to the international “flavor” that Brian may be bringing to our site!

  “I have lines out to still other historians that I have become aware of through the grapevine and my contacts here and there.” Voorhees wrapped up.  “I think there are about three or four other possible historians to come aboard at ARRA.  Some of them are looking positive, but final agreement to join us has not been received as of yet.  Time will tell.”  The main thing for Voorhees is thrilled about is that this influx of historians is the first realization of his goal to diversify the statistics coverage of their popular statistical reference website.  What started as two guys just researching local dirt track guys has become  popular and rapidly growing website that is now quite frankly, international in scope and reaching almost forty historian members!

Auto Racing Research Associates is a growing group of almost forty auto racing historians across the country banded together for the purpose of the research, documentation and displaying of auto racing history such as driver win statistics, as well as track, racing series and organizations histories and also the background of racing personalities, particular cars from the past and various other interesting facts of racing history that should not be forgotten.  ARRA continues to build a network of associated auto racing related websites to unite for better chances of furthering the understanding of the past of our sport.  ARRA offers looking up services for those looking for one particular piece of information from the past.  They are the official statistics information source of the Flemington Speedway Historical Society and have been doing much of the research work for a number of years for the Northeast Dirt Modified Museum and Hall of Fame in Weedsport, NY.

 Those wishing to view the photos and bio's of the new historians can do so at:  

https://sites.google.com/site/arradocumentingracinghistory/your-hosts