Jason Jarrett Smashes Track Record
July 28, 2016 at 4:25 p.m.
BROOKLYN, MICH. - Less than a week after picking up his first national-level win, 25-year-old ML Motorsports driver Jason Jarrett has made racing headlines again.
Jarrett, the son of Winston Cup points leader Dale Jarrett, ran the fastest lap in Thursday's practice at Michigan International Speedway for Saturday's ARCA RE/MAX Series Flagstar 200 and then backed it up by taking his first pole. The Warsaw-based stock car team sat on the pole for two races last year.
Jarrett, in his No. 67 Mary Louise Miller-owned Pontiac, circled the two-mile oval at a speed of 185.000 mph in 38.919 seconds.
Jarrett became the first ARCA driver to circle the famed oval in under 39 seconds or at 185 mph.
NASCAR Busch Series veteran Blaise Alexander will start in the first row with Jarrett after turning a lap time of 39.043 seconds at 184.412 mph. ARCA points leader Frank Kimmel, whose four-race win streak was broken with Jarrett's win last week, qualified third.
Saturday's Flagstar 200 can be seen on Fox Sports Net at 4 p.m. [[In-content Ad]]
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BROOKLYN, MICH. - Less than a week after picking up his first national-level win, 25-year-old ML Motorsports driver Jason Jarrett has made racing headlines again.
Jarrett, the son of Winston Cup points leader Dale Jarrett, ran the fastest lap in Thursday's practice at Michigan International Speedway for Saturday's ARCA RE/MAX Series Flagstar 200 and then backed it up by taking his first pole. The Warsaw-based stock car team sat on the pole for two races last year.
Jarrett, in his No. 67 Mary Louise Miller-owned Pontiac, circled the two-mile oval at a speed of 185.000 mph in 38.919 seconds.
Jarrett became the first ARCA driver to circle the famed oval in under 39 seconds or at 185 mph.
NASCAR Busch Series veteran Blaise Alexander will start in the first row with Jarrett after turning a lap time of 39.043 seconds at 184.412 mph. ARCA points leader Frank Kimmel, whose four-race win streak was broken with Jarrett's win last week, qualified third.
Saturday's Flagstar 200 can be seen on Fox Sports Net at 4 p.m. [[In-content Ad]]