Dexter Bean, a sophomore driver on the ARCA RE/MAX Series tour posted the 16th fastest time of the day with a quick lap of 31.173 seconds at 153.941 MPH.
The Westby Wisconsin native returns to Nashville Super speedway looking for his second top-10 finish in four starts. Earlier this year, Bean and eight time ARCA RE/MAX Series champion Frank Kimmel wowed the crowd with an intense five lap battle which didn’t end until Bean surged ahead of the reining champ coming to the start-finish line on the final lap.
Bean enters Nashville after notching a seventh place run at Pocono Raceway last Saturday. The run was the third top-10 in four career starts at Pocono Raceway.
The team brought a new shock package from Wood Brothers-JTG Racing hoping for advantage at Nashville Superspeedway.
Entering the 15th race of the season, Bean trails second place Michael McDowell competitor by 60 points. He trails second place runner Michael McDowell by 135 points and is 155 points from first, held by eight-time ARCA RE/MAX Series champion Frank Kimmel. Bean knocked 90 points off that lead with his stellar run at Pocono Raceway last weekend.
The BlackJack Racing team has brought the same Chevrolet Monte Carlo the team raced at Pocono Raceway last weekend while putting in a Tesar motor that was run in the first Pocono Raceway event which saw Bean collect a second place finish.
It is also the same automobile that Bean has competed with at Nashville Superspeedway in April, Kansas Speedway, Kentucky Speedway (May), Iowa Speedway and both Pocono Raceway events.
In 14 events this season, Bean has collected two top-fives and six top-10s. With his top-10 run last weekend, Bean eclipsed his 2006 season stats which saw Bean notch two top-fives and five top-10s.
Bean drew the 17th position for SIM Factory pole qualifying set for later this afternoon.
“We’re not as quick as we want to be. We didn’t pick up as much as we would have liked on our sticker run, so the guys are going to make some adjustments and hope they work in qualifying. This is an important race for us. We need to keep our string of consistent finishes going. The field looks pretty competitive, so we just have to catch up with the rest of them. ”
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