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7/6/2007 *Holt driver set to make season debut at Berlin Raceway*Sherman prepares to begin season.

Lansing State Journal

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Gary Sherman only runs a partial racing schedule and competes with a
low-budget team, but that hasn't kept him from experiencing success on the ARCA RE/MAX Series.

The Holt driver will make his season debut and ninth series start in three
years Saturday in the Request Foods-GFS 200 at Berlin Raceway in Marne,
which is near Grand Rapids.

"We finished fifth in the 2005 race there, which was my ARCA debut, and in
'06, we finished fourth there," Sherman said. "And in 2007, we're going to
win the thing."

While this year's ARCA season is already 11 races old, Sherman and his
Cleary Motorsports team are hoping another strong finish at Berlin will help
the team secure a sponsor that can fund the team enough to run more ARCA
races as well as some NASCAR Busch Series races.

"We should be able to do something (in the Busch Series) early next season
as long as everything keeps rolling the way it is," Sherman said. "From
Busch to (Nextel) Cup, that's the long-term goal."

"The ARCA Series is truly a stepping stone to the Busch Series," Sherman
said. "It's one step below Busch. ARCA is used by a lot of Nextel Cup
development teams. They use it just as a training series to prime someone
for the longer races to prepare them for Busch or Cup races."

Sherman, who has five top-10 finishes in his previous eight ARCA starts,
works with a team of volunteer crew members on a team that only recently
purchased a second car.

"Most teams have several cars - in the neghborhood of 10 or 20," Sherman
said. "That's for multimillion-dollar teams. Our entire crew is friends and
people we've met through the profession of racing and we go out and compete against these teams that have multimillion-dollar funding and we beat them, so that's even more rewarding."

Sherman said it's a confidence booster to think of the success his team has
had and imagine what it could be if his team had more funding.

Saturday's race is an 88-mile event. The race features defending winner
Brian Keselowski, series points leader Frank Kimmel and Bobby Gerhart, who
is second in the standings.

"It's always a really competitive field," Sherman said. "ARCA is full of
people capable of winning. There will be close to 45 cars there and they'll
only start the 32 fastest."

Sherman said he qualified sixth last year and is confident he can start near
the front again.

Sherman said his team hopes to run as many as three other ARCA races this
season.

The ARCA schedule includes 23 races. Saturday's race will be the 20th ARCA
race held at Berlin Raceway.