Champions from All Over the USA Enter the ARCAMT Joe Shear Classic

Kevin Ramsell (Midwest Tour PR)

(Oregon, WI) – Short track series and track champions from all over the United States have filed an entry for this Sunday’s $10,000 to win Joe Shear Classic 200, the opening season event for the ARCA Midwest Tour presented by SCAG Power Equipment at Madison International Speedway in Oregon, Wisconsin.

Qualifying will get underway at 12:45pm with racing getting underway at 2pm.

Leading the entry list are three former ARCA Midwest Tour champions. Andrew Morrissey is the defending and two-time winner of the Joe Shear Classic and is the 2011 ARCAMT Champion. Dan Fredrickson is a two-time ARCAMT Champion and won a ARCAMT event in 2008. He is also the defending MIS Triple Crown champion. Jonathan Eilen is the 2012 ARCAMT Champion and the first member of the Century Club. He will be making his 119th start this Sunday.

Former Southern Super Series champion and defending Slinger Nationals entry Bubba Pollard is planning on making the trek Senoia, Georgia to compete in his second Shear Classic. Pollard is one of the winningest modern day short track winners and has won many big money races over the last four years.

2016 NASCAR Camping World Truck Series Champion, 2017 Oktoberfest 200 winner, and 2015 Joe Shear Classic winner Johnny Sauter is coming back to try to be the third two-time winner of the event. Earlier this year, Sauter won the Truck Series season opener at Daytona with crew chief Joe Shear Jr.

Former CRA Super Series champion Johnny VanDoorn is hoping to return home to Michigan with a $10,000 check in his pocket.

Dalton Zehr is coming into the 2018 ARCAMT season winning the last two of the four ARCAMT events in 2017. He is also the defending TUNDRA Series champion. Wisconsin Challenge Series champion Chris Weinkauf is hoping to add his name to the list of Joe Shear Classic winners.

Former two-time Big 8 Series and former MIS Triple Crown champion Casey Johnson will be there along with five-time Snowball Derby and former MIS track champion Rich Bickle Jr.

Wisconsin International Raceway will be well represented with 2017 track champion Andy Monday and multi-time track champion Jeff VanOudenhoven.

Former Slinger Super Speedway champions Steve Apel hopes to pull of the win at Wisconsin’s Fastest Half-Mile Oval.

Former ARCAMT Rookie of the Year winners Nick Murgic and Austin Nason will be joined along with 2017 ROY Michael Ostdiek. They will be joined along with fellow 2017 rookie contenders Justin Mondeik and John DeAngelis Jr. Along with former NASCAR Camping World Truck Series Rookie of the Year Erik Darnell.

New rookie contenders will start their battle for the ROY title this Sunday. Some of those contenders include: John Beale, Gabe Sommers, and Billy Mohn.

Other former track champions entered include defending Wayne Carter Classic winner Ricky Baker, former ARTGO champion, Illiana and Grundy champion Eddie Hoffman, Jason Weinkauf, and Paul Shafer Jr.

Plus many more!!!

Expect a qualify field of stars and cars competing on the tough half-mile oval this Sunday afternoon.

Make your plans to join us for the Joe Shear Classic 200 at Madison International Speedway. The 12th season opening event for the ARCA Midwest Tour presented by SCAG Power Equipment.

Visit midwesttour.racing for a full schedule and be sure to follow the ARCA Midwest Tour on Facebook (/midwesttour) and Twitter (@MidwestTour).

Past Winners of the Joe Shear Classic

2008 Dan Fredrickson

2009 Nathan Haseleu

2010 Steve Carlson

2011 Ross Kenseth

2012 Andrew Morrissey

2013 Travis Sauter

2014 Nathan Haseleu

2015 Johnny Sauter

2016 Ty Majeski

2017 Andrew Morrissey

Expected Entries

Joe Shear Classic 200 presented by SCAG Power Equipment

ARCA Midwest Tour

Sunday May 6, 2018

Madison International Speedway

32 as of 4/30/18

1 5 Casey Johnson Edgerton WI Hougan Farms/UAW Region 4/Performance Parts Supply Chevrolet 2 5 Jeff Holmgren, Jr East Troy WI Transport Services/Rhode’s Towing & Repair/Perez Plumbing Toyota 3 5 John Beale Verona WI Evenson Farms/Pathfinder Chassis/Wegner Automotive Chevrolet 4 5 Johnny Sauter Necedah WI Deppe Enterprises/Sal’s Towing/Pathfinder Chassis Chevrolet 5 7 Erik Darnell Park City IL Darnell Motorsports Chevrolet 6 7 John DeAngelis, Jr Hubertus WI DeAngelis Construction/D+H Demolition Ford 7 7 Paul Shafer, Jr Portage IN Paul’s Auto Yards/ClassyChassisTrucks.com Chevrolet 8 8 Billy Mohn New Market MN Airgas/Print Lab Wraps Chevrolet 9 8 Eddie Hoffman Wheaton IL Feece Oil/Advanced Generator Chevrolet 10 9 Kyle Calmes Gillett WI Brew Pub Pizza/Ken’s Sports/Calmes Verkuilen Builders Toyota 11 10 Andy Monday Appleton WI Monday & Assoc/B&B Engines/Darboy Corner Store Toyota 12 11 Bobby Kendall Montello WI Interstate Sealant & Concrete/American Family Insurance Chevrolet 13 12 Nick Murgic Rosemount MN Vic’s Crane & Heavy Haul/Murgic Racing Engines Toyota 14 14 Austin Nason Roscoe IL Haase Builders/Erickson Auto Parts/Nason’s Landscaping Ford 15 15 Dean LaPointe Marshfield WI Ken Edwards Construction/Chips Hamburgers/K&K Auto Ford 16 15 Gabe Sommers Plover WI Tasteful Selections/Kwik Trip/Allied Co-op Ford 17 18 Michael Ostdiek Lakeville MN Kulwicki Driver Dev/Mississippi Bluffs Park Chevrolet 18 21 Dave Tomczak Franklin WI Firewise Barbecue Co/Water Cooled Spot Welders Chevrolet 19 26 Bubba Pollard Senoia GA Racecar Engineering/Strange Oval Ford 20 36 Dan Fredrickson Lakeville MN Herman’s Landscape Supply/Justman Freight Toyota 21 39 Andrew Morrissey DeForest WI Club LaMark/B&B Racing Engines/Morrissey Trucking Ford 22 44 Justin Mondeik Gleason WI Agra Industries/Barb & Dale/Kulwicki Driver Development Chevrolet 23 45 Jeff VanOudenhoven Appleton WI VanDenHeuvel Electric/Appleton Sign/Badgerland Demo Ford 24 45 Rich Bickle, Jr Edgerton WI No Money Special/Snap-On Tools Chevrolet 25 51 Steve Apel West Bend WI Schroeder’s Lawn & Garden Equipment/acieta/Interstate Saw Toyota 26 52 Ricky Baker Plainfield IL Rod Baker Ford/Illinois Truck and Equipment Ford 27 71 Johnny VanDoorn Coopersville MI Lisa Thomas Salon/VanDoorn Racing Chevrolet 28 75 Chris Weinkauf Merrill WI Breber Music/Walter & Sons Waste Hauling/Wehrs Machine Chevrolet 29 76 Jason Weinkauf Merrill WI Professional Drywall/VanDerGeest Cattle/Tiry’s Chevrolet 30 77 Jonathan Eilen Hampton MN Eilen & Sons Trucking & Landscape/Graber Auto Body Ford 31 80 Ryan Farrell Big Bend WI Berge Plumbing Plus Chevrolet 32 119 Dalton Zehr Daytona Beach FL E3 Spark Plugs/Eagle Jet Int’l/Coleman Racing Chevrolet