SPRINGFIELD, Ill. — The entry list for Sunday’s Dutch Boy 100 at the Illinois State Fairgrounds gets younger with the addition of 15-year-old Brent Crews.
Crews’ entry adds yet another “dirt track ringer” for the first of the two Illinois dirt mile events on the ARCA Menards Series schedule. Crews has experience sliding sideways on both pavement and dirt and he is the youngest winner in Trans Am Series history with victories this year at Detroit and Road America (Wis.).
In addition, he has five 2021 dirt track wins in the POWRi Midget Series for Keith Kunz Motorsports and has competed in ASCS and IRA outlaw sprint cars.
Crews joins fellow rookie and Keith Kunz midget driver Taylor Reimer on the potent Venturini Motorsports team. Venturini currently employs ARCA points leader Jesse Love, the defending winner of the Dutch Boy 100 at Springfield.
Venturini’s operation posted six wins at Springfield in the last ten seasons, including the last two.
Crews finished third last year in the Trans Am Series at the age of 14, winning three races in 12 starts. He currently has three wins in nine Trans Am starts this season with two pole positions and leads the point standings.
He will have a rare opportunity this weekend to win ARCA races on a road course (Watkins Glen (N.Y.) Int’l) and a dirt track (Springfield) as the versatile ARCA Menards Series employs a unique Friday-Sunday doubleheader this week.