Brewco’s Coleman Impresses at First ARCA Test

Posts sixth-fastest time of 55 entries, will run first ARCA race on April 15

In his first stock car outing on a superspeedway, Brewco Motorsports Inc. development driver Brad Coleman posted the sixth-fastest speed out of a record 55 ARCA RE/MAX Series drivers who tested last week at Nashville Superspeedway during the series’ first superspeedway open-test session of the year. 

Coleman posted a speed of 158.438 and a time of 30.220, placing him among the top of the speed charts with some of the biggest names in the ARCA RE/MAX series, including Steven Wallace, Erin Crocker and seven-time Series champion Frank Kimmel.

The testing session in Nashville meant a number of firsts for Coleman. It was his first time in a race car in five months, first time on a superspeedway oval, first time on a concrete track, first time to run with his Brewco team, and his first experience in a stock car with the level of horsepower and size as the cars in the ARCA Series.

Coleman will drive a Brewco Ford in at least 10 ARCA Re/Max Series races, beginning with the April 15 PFG Lester 150 at Nashville Superspeedway. The young Texan, who has lived in Martinsville, VA the last few years with his driving coach, will compete in 7 NASCAR Busch Series races for Brewco Motorsports in 2006.

“We’re very encouraged by Brad’s strong run,” said team owner Clarence Brewer Jr. “Brewco recognizes Brad as an extremely talented young driver with the ability to be successful in our sport.  We are looking forward to seeing him race in a Brewco Motorsports car later this month in Nashville.”

Brewco Motorsports announced in mid-December, 2005, the signing of Coleman to a NASCAR driver development contract for 2006. Coleman, who turned 18 just a few days after the 2006 season-opening ARCA 200 in Daytona, is already a record setting young driver with a wealth of stock car, sports car, and open-wheel experience. In 2005 he won the NASCAR Dodge Weekly Series Rookie Points Championship in his first season of late model stock car racing at Ace Speedway in Altamahaw, NC, set a World Record by finishing 7th in the Rolex 24 of Daytona in a Porsche GT3 Cup car at 16 years-old, and posted a Top 10 finish in a Daytona Prototype in a Grand American Series race this fall.

About Brewco Motorsports

Central City, Kentucky businessman Clarence Brewer Jr. began the construction of his racing enterprise, Brewco Motorsports, in 1996 with one racecar and a small shop.  In 2006, Brewer will begin his eleventh season as a car owner in the NASCAR Busch Series.  With an unmatched reputation of delivering results both on and off the track, Brewco has elevated itself to not only a consistent championship contender but also the marketing vehicle of some of America's most trusted brands.