ARCA Truck results June 15

ARCA Trucks lined up and ready for the command to start engines

If you were expecting speed at Ona Speedway for the ARCA Truck Series race, you got speed. If you were expecting a chip off the ol’ engine block from an Earnhardt, well, you got an Earnhardt.

The Midland Trail 150 at the place “Where Legends are Born” put on a show for the fans June 15 – a lot of U-cars took to the track, as did some Late Models. There was a cool pole award for ARCA driver Danny Jackson, and he and Chad Poorman lapped the boys in the back more than once.

Lest you think that being the pole-sitter was an advantage to race winner Danny Jackson, think again. In ARCA Trucks, the fastest qualifier starts in the back of the field. Yes, they invert that puppy and you gotta work hard to win.

What's a race without a souvenir shirt or hat?

If t-shirts and ball caps were any indicator of the loyalties in the grandstand, it was surely NASCAR Nation. The night also brought out folks with the prospect of seeing the grandson of The Intimidator.

Shirts boasted Bristol, Charlotte, JR Nation, The Intimidator, Five-time Jimmie Johnson and local favorite, and surely future Dirt Track Hall of Famer, Steve Francis.

Steve Francis, by the way, will be at Portsmouth Raceway Park on Thursday, July 4 in the Lucas Oil Dirt Series. He's running the #15 Georgia Boot Camry for Clint Bowyer's dirt team, and this will be a fine opportunity to see the Ashland resident in his element.

But I digress.

Danny Jackson accepts the Midland Trail 150 pole award from Steve Chapman of Ona Speedway

Jackson was impressed with the pole award for the race, a hand-blown Stetson hat from Blenko artisans, along with a bottle of WV-produced wine from the Greenbrier Valley. “It’s unique,” he said before the race. “It’s something I’ll have the rest of my life.”

The competitors came from around the Midwest, mostly Ohio, and driver of the #46 Al Berry, his girlfriend and her daughters arrived at 3 a.m. from Angola, IN. Mandy Allen said they pulled in, parked the motor home and slept. “We’ll see some of the area when we leave,” she said.

Bobby Dale Earnhardt signs the shirt of Jaden Wallen of Auburn, IN

Culloden resident D.J. Scarberry gave his daughters a choice for the day – Camden Park, barbeque cookout at a friend’s house or going to the truck race at Ona Speedway.

Lakin Scarberry, 6, and her sister Cheyenne, 2, pose with Bobby Dale Earnhardt

“They love trucks,” D.J. said. Cheyenne Scarberry, all of 2-years-old, loves not just trucks, but Monster Trucks, dad said. So, that was that. Cheyenne and her sister Lakin, 6, wanted to see the race, and that was the Father’s Day outing. Before the race, they toddled around the ARCA drivers’ autograph session getting their checkered flag signed.

Here are the official results from Saturday night’s race.

Finish, driver, hometown and laps down

1-Danny Jackson, Batavia, OH

2-Chad Poorman, Montpelier, OH

3-Cody Quarrick, Uniontown, PA

4-Shawn Szep, Marysville, OH

5-Kenny Kirsch Jr., West Harrison, OH

6-Levi Mansfield, Oakwood, OH -2

7-Brad Yunker, Maumee, OH -2

8-Bobby Dale Earnhardt, Charleston, WV -3

9-Eddie Vallette, Columbus, OH -4

10-Jonathan Kulpinski, Montpelier, OH -8

11-Brandon Huff, East Palestine, OH -18

12-Devin Moran, Dresden, OH -69

13-Al Berry, Angola, IN, DNF