Flat Rock Speedway

Flat Rock Speedway 70th Anniversary Notes - Champions 

• Thirty-five drivers have earned at least one ARCA Late Model championship at Flat Rock Speedway. The division started in the track’s first year and was known as “Hard Tops” before transitioning to the current Late Model class in 1957. 
• The legendary Joy Fair leads all drivers at Flat Rock Speedway with ten ARCA Late Model championships. He won his first in 1965 and won his tenth in 1981. Fair set the record for most consecutive championships with four from 1969 through 1972, a feat that was matched by Rick Knowles from 1998 through 2001. 
• Eric Lee’s 2021 ARCA Late Model championship was his fifth, moving him into second on the all-time championship list.  
• Rick Knowles and Paul Pelletier each have four ARCA Late Model championships at Flat Rock Speedway. Knowles won his consecutively from 1998 through 2001, while Pelletier won his in 2006, 2010, 2012, and 2016. 

• Dave Kuhlman and Steve Bunge each won three consecutive ARCA Late Model championships at Flat Rock Speedway. Kuhlman is a four-time track champion, winning his first title in 1983 then going on to consecutive titles from 1986 through 1988. Bunge’s championships came from 1992 through 1994. 
• Harold Cook and his son Terry are both two-time ARCA Late Model champions at Flat Rock. The elder Cook won in 1982 and 1985 with the younger winning back-to-back titles in 1989 and 1990.  
• Greg Studt is the only driver to win championships across three different divisions at Flat Rock. He was the ARCA Figure 8 champion in 2001, the ARCA Late Model champion in 2005, and the ARCA Street Stock champion in 2016. Studt has seven total Flat Rock championships, one in Late Models and three each in ARCA Figure 8 and Street Stocks.  
• Bob Studt leads all drivers with 13 career ARCA Figure 8 championships. Studt tied with John Briggs for the title in 1978 then won his first stand-alone title in 1982. His final championship came in 1997. He won eight titles in nine years, including a five-in-a-row streak from 1988 through 1992. 
• Denny Pace also won five consecutive ARCA Figure 8 championships from 1971 through 1975.  

• Dennis Whisman is a five-time ARCA Figure 8 champion at Flat Rock Speedway, accumulating those titles in 1995, 2004, 2005, 2008, and 2009.  
• Bob Studt and son Greg were the first father-son duo to win a Figure 8 championship at Flat Rock Speedway, and have been joined by Dave and Jeremy Miller and Dennis Whisman and his son Dennis, Jr.  
• A total of 27 drivers have earned at least one ARCA Figure 8 championship at Flat Rock Speedway. The division started out as the “Old Models” class and morphed into the Figure 8 division in 1962. 
• The ARCA Street Stock division started as a weekly class in 1977 and had only one repeat champion – Dan Leppen – in its first 18 years.  
• In 1978, Johnny Hi and Dick Bettis tied for the ARCA Street Stocks title. 

• Four-time ARCA Late Model champion Rick Knowles is also a three-time ARCA Street Stock champion at Flat Rock Speedway. 
• Dan Ford, Jr. leads all drivers with five ARCA Street Stock championships. His first came in 1995 and his most recent was in 2010. 
• Frank Jiovani was the ARCA Street Stock champion in 2012 and then won the ARCA Late Model track title in 2019. 
• Bob Studt became the first driver to win championships in multiple divisions when he won the ARCA Figure 8 and the ARCA Street Stock titles in 1986. To date, he is the only driver to win championships in more than one division in a single season. 

Bob Studt won championships in three different decades, the 1970s, 1980s, and the 1990s.

John Wyman is the 1982 ARCA Street Stock champion.

Terry Cook won the ARCA Late Model championship as a rookie in 1989 and followed it with another title in 1990.

Eric Lee is second on the all-time ARCA Late Model championship list with five.

Four-time champion Paul Pelletier's cars are hard to miss. Here he's racing with fellow track champion Frank "The Shark" Jiovani.

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