2013 ARLA Tornado Alley Truck Series (Rockford 100 Posted!)

Tammy Barnton wins the ARLA Tornado Alley Truck Series Championship

It was an eventful race for Tammy Barnton as she had to work her way up through the field after a bad starting position, however, Tammy Barnton pulled off an impressive season of straight top 10's and as a result, she took home the championship in her rookie season.

Barnton had luck on her side, as well as being fast all night, as Zach Gott, her main championship rival, ran into trouble early on after a collision with Dylan Andrew, but Gott himself rebounded to finish in the top 5, but Barnton still finished close enough to Gott, even after Barnton had a late race spin herself, after contact with Samantha Spires.

Tammy Barnton will do what her cousin, Lucy, did and move onto the FARC Elite Series for 2014, as she has struck a deal with HQS Racing, and has agreed to drive the #83 Bitter Pills Lenard, where she is hoping to be just as successful as she was this year.

"I thought I lost it all when I spun" said a tearful, but happy Tammy Barnton, "but the truck was so fast tonight. Not just tonight, the whole season. It's overwhelming. After last year, this family and this team have all deserved this. Lucy told me how crushing it was to lose it by one point last season, but I hope I did her proud this year."

Kcobb74: "It'd be wrong to say we didn't have a great rookie season, I mean with getting our first win and several solid finishes we did pretty well, especially after our abysmal start in the first 6 or so races. Even though we don't know exactly what our plans will be for 2014 our first Elite Series race is coming up, and with sponsorship to follow we might end up with a pretty good ride in a bigger series next year. We don't exactly know but what I do know is that I enjoyed this 2013 season and would like to congratulate Tammy Barnton on her championship."

Patrick Johannson: What a season. This crew knows what they are doing, let me tell you all now. I know that the attrition rate was high today, but we held on and got a Top 10 in the biggest race of the year. For a startup team, Alex [Middleton, the team owner] did a good job managing it. Wherever 2014 takes me, I know I can keep my head held high after a great season not just for me, but a team that started from nothin'. I sincerely thank Red Wing Racing and all the work they did in givin' me a great truck for all the races we ran this season. Also, Congratulations to Tammy on her championship. I feel for Zach, since he came all the way back from gettin' wrecked to having a fairly good shot at winning it, but he's got a great bunch behind him that'll stick to him. Both of those drivers are gonna go far in FARC; I guarantee you.

Vincenzo Fochesato, Post-Rockford 100
Focus Autosports driver Vincenzo Fochesato came into the Rockford 100, the final race of the ARLA Tornado Alley Truck Series before the upcoming merger between ARLA and FARCE, confident that he could fight for the win, despite starting back in the 10th row of the grid.

How race day turned out for him can be summed up by the fact that his interview was conducted after he returned from a trip to the hauler. After said trip, Fochesato had this to say; "I need to apologize to Kendrick Davis, that incident was entirely my fault. My spotter told me to 'watch for traffic', but I thought that he'd said "watch for Travis". I sort of zoned out trying to figure out who Travis was, and I ended up driving into the #00. We got our 15 points cancelled out by my penalty, but again, it was entirely deserved. At least we finished with a relatively clean truck. I've been told we haven't figured out what happened to Aubrey [Wood's] truck yet, but we're suspecting it had to do with her incident with [Barry] Spengler. Whatever it was, it's a shame that she hasn't been able to show ARLA what she can do, yet."

Fochesato completes his rookie season as the 3rd-highest rookie in the final points standings, with a 7th place points result. Heading into 2014, he plans to return to full-time competition in the soon-to-be-named FARC LoBo Truck Tour, as well as participate in a handful of FARC Elite Series events.

"Again, all I do is drive the truck. Everyone else who supports me is the reason I can have so much fun doing it! We're going to get our Elite Series Lenard ready for the 200 now, and I hope to return to FARC next year!"

Fochesato then ran off to the #00 truck's pit box to try to find Kendrick Davis.