Crosley Record Pressing 200

The Crosley Record Pressing 200 is a ARCA Menards Series East stock car race held at Fairgrounds Speedway, in Nashville, Tennessee. Debuting as a 200 lap race of 119.2 mi, After a 23-year pause, the ARCA Menards Series returned to the schedule in 2020, The race took part of a stock car double-header, April 7-8, 2020.

Current ARCA Racing Series point leader Austin Theriault hopes to add his name to the impressive list of ARCA winners at Nashville, and he’s off to a great start. The Fort Kent, Maine driver opened the season with a victory at Daytona International Speedway. He has looked toward Nashville for what would be his career-first ARCA short track triumph.

Track Enterprises, a racing promotion company from Central Illinois, has awarded some of the country’s top stars in the first four years of the show. In 2015, current NASCAR Camping World Truck Series star Grant Enfinger won the ARCA race, while NASCAR Cup Series rookie Daniel Hemric won the Super Late Model portion of the event. In 2016, Josh Williams claimed the guitar in the race, while Super Late Model hotshoe Donnie Wilson took the 100 lapper. In the 2017 event, fans saw Michigan’s Chad Finley put on a show coming from deep in the ARCA pack late to claim the win, while Casey Roderick took victory in the Super Late Model race. Last year, ARCA point runner-up and JR Motorsports NASCAR Xfinity Series driver, Zane Smith took the ARCA win, while Roderick went back-to-back in the Super race.

History
Chevrolet won the first six races, while Toyota has won the last three. During its first stint on the East Series schedule in 2007 and 2008, the race was 150 laps instead of the 200 laps that it has had in all the other years it has been run.

The race was a late addition to the 2020 ARCA Menards Series East schedule. The rest of the races on the schedule had been announced a month earlier. However, due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the 2020 race ended up being cancelled. It was not rescheduled for another date later in the season. Unlike some of the other cancelled races on the East Series schedule, it was not replaced by another race at a different track.