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08/02/2008 - 11:47 PM
Long Pond, Pa.
Justin Allgaier celebrates in victory lane after winning the Pennsylvania 200 at Pocono Raceway. (ARCA RE/MAX Photo) ยป More Photos
From open wheel cars to stock cars, Justin Allgaier had won on short-tracks all across the nation, but never on a superspeedway. That all changed Saturday afternoon at Pocono Raceway where the Springfield, Illinois driver held off Scott Speed in the closing laps of the Pennsylvania 200 to earn his fifth career ARCA RE/MAX Series victory, and first ever on a superspeedway.
Race Results
"Definitely by far this is the biggest race of my career," said Allgaier. "Scott [Speed] is extremely good on restarts and to be honest on the last restart I was sweating bullets there because I knew he was going to be very good. I think Scott is looking probably at the big picture. He's thinking about points. He drove me as clean as anyone can. It was a great day. This is my favorite track on the circuit."
Speed, in the Red Bull Toyota, got within a length of Allgaier in the tunnel turn on the final lap, but fell back to three lengths at the final stripe, finishing second.
"It was great," said Speed. "Honestly, I'm happy for him [Justin Allgaier] to win one. He's a great kid and certainly it's not as easy for him to run all of these races as it is for me. He had a great run. I am pretty confident
Speed, who earned the SIM Factory Pole Award the day before, also moved into first place in national championship points.
"If we don't have any bad luck, any failures, should be good with regard to points," said Speed. "I could care less if I win or finish second. It's definitely about the points. To finish second is a non-issue. To take the points lead by how much we have is huge."
Speed was also the Aaron's Lap Leader with the most laps led (35) and earned the SunTrust Highest Finishing Rookie honors.
Chase Miller finished third after starting 29th in the Verizon Wireless-Motorola Dodge, earning the Casite Hard Charger Award.
"This is one of my favorite race tracks," said Miller."Verizon Wireless and Motorola have a lot of people up here and they knew I liked this racetrack so it just kind of fit. We blew a motor in the practice session on Friday and those guys on the team really busted their butts and it turned it around for us. It's cool to come and run ARCA and learn from some of these guys. I can come and learn from them just as much as I can from some of these Nationwide guys."
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