LAKEVILLE, Conn. — The ARCA Menards Series heads to Lime Rock Park for its second and final road course race of the season in Friday’s Lime Rock Park 100.
The race, the 12th of the 20 scheduled, will be the 35th road course race in series history.
Last year’s race, the first for the ARCA Menards Series in the state of Connecticut, was won by Thomas Annunziata (No. 70 JBL Toyota). The victory was the first for Nitro Motorsports in the ARCA Menards Series.
Annunziata is one of three drivers scheduled to compete in both the ARCA Menards Series and NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series races at Lime Rock Park over the weekend; he will be joined by Stewart Friesen (No. 17 Halmar / Mohawk Toyota) and Dawson Sutton (No. 42 Rackley Roofing / MMI Chevrolet).
Friesen will be making his ARCA Menards Series debut driving for Cook Racing Technologies, the team that won the season’s first road course race earlier this season at Watkins Glen International with Kaden Honeycutt driving; Sutton, also in a Cook Racing Technologies entry, will be making his second career series start and first since Bristol Motor Speedway in 2024.
Annunziata enters the Lime Rock Park ARCA 100 with a three-race Sioux Chief PowerPEX Pole Award streak; he won pole awards at Berlin Raceway, Elko Speedway, and Chicagoland Speedway. He won last year’s race at Lime Rock from the pole.
• Jake Bollman (No. 20 Nitro Motorsports Toyota) continues to lead the ARCA Menards Series championship point standings after eleven races; he finished eighth last Friday at Chicagoland Speedway which saw his lead over Annunziata shrink to 16 points, the smallest the gap has been since he led by 17 points over Ryan Vargas after the sixth round of the season at Toledo Speedway.
• Tristan McKee (No. 77 NEFCO Chevrolet) returns for the first time since his victory at Toledo Speedway in May; he also finished second in his first start of the season at Phoenix Raceway in March. McKee is a road course ace, he scored his first career ARCA Menards Series victory in his series debut at Watkins Glen International in 2025.
• Phoenix winner Carson Brown (No. 28 Whelen Chevrolet) will make his fifth start of the season on Friday; he has not finished lower than third in any of his previous appearances. In addition to the Phoenix win, he finished second at Watkins Glen and third at both Toledo and Pocono Raceway. Brown currently leads the Appalachian Sucker Punch ASA STARS National Tour points with three victories (New Smyrna, Five Flags, Slinger) in the first five races of the season.
• Max Reaves (No. 18 Cook Out Toyota) comes into the Lime Rock Park ARCA 100 on a personal two-race win streak with victories in his last two starts at Berlin Raceway and Elko Speedway. His Joe Gibbs Racing team will be looking to rebound from its worst finish of the season, 24th, after an early-race accident with two-time ARCA Menards East champion William Sawalich at the wheel last Friday at Chicagoland.
• Andrew Ranger (No. 53 Robert Torriere Racing Chevrolet) is the only driver in series history to win multiple ARCA Menards Series races on road courses; he is a four-time winner at New Jersey Motorsports Park from 2011 through 2014.
Ranger finished seventh at Watkins Glen International in May in his first series start in 12 years. Ranger also has an ARCA Menards Series East victory at Lime Rock Park in 2010.
