KANSAS CITY, Kan. — The ARCA Menards Series returns to Kansas Speedway for the second time this season for the Reese’s 150, the 19th of 20 races.
It will be the 31st ARCA Menards Series race at the 1.5-mile tri-oval dating to the track’s opening weekend in 2001.
Brenden “Butterbean” Queen (No. 28 BestRepair.net Chevrolet) leads the ARCA Menards Series standings by 56 points over second-place Lavar Scott (No. 6 Max Siegel Inc. Chevrolet) headed into the Reese’s 150.
Queen won earlier this season at Kansas Speedway, one of seven victories he’s tallied this year including last weekend at Salem Speedway.
Queen’s average finish through 19 races is 5.11, compared to Scott’s equally-impressive 5.72. The bulk of Queen’s lead in the standings comes through bonus points; he’s earned 43 bonus points compared to Scott’s five.
• Each of the championship contenders drive for teams that have tasted success at Kansas Speedway. Queen won earlier this season, and Connor Mosack drove to victory in the spring of 2024. Scott’s Rev Racing team won back-to-back races at Kansas Speedway with Nick Sanchez in 2021 and 2022; additionally, Scott has three top-five finishes in four starts at Kansas Speedway.
• Giovanni Ruggiero (No. 18 First Auto Group Toyota) will make his second start of the season with Joe Gibbs Racing. Ruggiero, a NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series regular in 2025, led 35 laps en route to a fourth-place finish at Michigan International Speedway in June in his only other ARCA Menards Series start this season.
• Pinnacle Racing Group team owner Mark Webb leads the ARCA Menards Series Owners Championship standings by 18 points over Joe Gibbs with two races remaining.
• Andrew Patterson (No. 40 WinSupply / SCS Gearbox Toyota) returns to his self-owned team coming off a career-best second-place finish last Saturday night at Salem Speedway driving for Nitro Motorsports. Patterson finished an impressive sixth with his own team earlier this season at Charlotte Motor Speedway.
• Taylor Reimer (No. 70 BUZZBALLZ Toyota) and Thad Moffitt (No. 46 Safety-Kleen Toyota) return to the Nitro Motorsports stable for the Reese’s 150.
Moffitt, who finished second earlier this season at Talladega Superspeedway, will be making his third career appearance at Kansas Speedway with a best finish of sixth in 2021; Reimer will be making her first appearance at Kansas Speedway.
• Mason Mitchell (No. 25 Pro-Seed USA Toyota) will make his sixth and final scheduled start of the season driving for Venturini Motorsports. Mitchell, the 2014 ARCA Menards Series champion, won at Kansas in 2015 and finished third there earlier this year.
• Tyler Reif (No. 23 Vegas Fastener / Sigma Performance Services Chevrolet) will make his second intermediate track start of the season. Reif, who was second in the 2024 ARCA Menards Series West standings and the 2025 ARCA Menards Series East standings, finished seventh in his first big-track start at Michigan International Speedway in June. Reif’s best finish, second, came earlier this season at Watkins Glen International.
• Patrick Staropoli (No. 17 SYFOVRE Toyota) will make his sixth start of the season and second for Cook Racing Technologies. Staropoli, an ophthalmologist by trade, has finished among the top ten three times in five previous starts this season, including a pair of eighth-place finishes at Phoenix Raceway and Charlotte Motor Speedway. He was 22nd in the Cook Racing Technologies car at Kansas in April.
• Corey Day (No. 77 HendrickCars.com Chevrolet) will make his third start of the season and his first since he finished tenth at Phoenix Raceway in March. Shane Huffman will serve as crew chief.
• Alex Bowman holds the ARCA Menards Series track qualifying record at Kansas Speedway, set in 2012, at 29.258 seconds/184.559 mph.
• Christian Eckes holds the ARCA Menards Series track race record at Kansas Speedway, set in 2019, at 141.695 mph.
