TOLEDO, Ohio — Brenden “Butterbean” Queen scored his second career ARCA Menards Series win and his second of 2025 with a dominant victory in Friday’s Tide 150 at Kansas Speedway.
Queen led 72 of the race’s 105 laps aboard the Pinnacle Motorsports Group No. 28 and held off runner-up William Sawalich (No. 18 Starkey Toyota) on a trio of late-race restarts, including one on the final lap to win.
Queen also won the season opener at Daytona Int’l Speedway.
Sawalich led for 29 laps on his way to his second runner-up finish of the season. Sawalich has 13 wins, 26 top-five finishes, and 28 top-10 finishes in 30 career ARCA Menards Series starts.
After four races, Queen holds a one-point lead in the standings over Lawless Alan and Lavar Scott.
• Mason Mitchell (No. 25 Pro-Seed USA Toyota) finished third in his first ARCA Menards Series start of the season. The 2014 series champion is planning additional starts this season at Iowa Speedway and the fall race at Kansas Speedway, with others potentially to be added.
• Talladega winner Lawless Alan (No. 20 AUTOChargeIt Toyota) continued his hot streak by picking up his first career General Tire Pole Award in qualifying. Alan ran in the top five throughout the race but lost a spot to Mitchell on the final lap to settle for fourth.
• Lavar Scott (No. 6 Max Siegel Inc. Chevrolet) entered the Tide 150 as the ARCA Menards Series championship points leader. Scott finished fifth, his third career top-five finish in four starts at Kansas Speedway.
• Andy Jankowiak (No. 73 Acacia Energy / DAKS Markets Toyota) finished sixth, coming up one position short from finishing in the top five in back-to-back ARCA Menards Series races for the first time in his career. Jankowiak then made the overnight run to his home track, Lancaster Motorplex, where he finished second in the Sportsman division feature.
• Jason Kitzmiller scored his third top-10 finish in four 2024 starts with a solid seventh-place effort in the A.L.L. Construction Chevrolet. Kitzmiller is now unofficially fourth in the ARCA Menards Series championship standings; his son Isaac leads the ARCA Menards Series East standings.
• Lanie Buice (No. 2 Max Siegel Inc. Chevrolet) finished eighth in her ARCA Menards Series debut. She is the 52nd female driver to make at least one series start and the 30th to score at least one top-10 finish.
• Spencer Gallagher (No. 23 Allegiant Airlines / Sigma Performance Services Chevrolet) made his first series start at Kansas Speedway since winning the 2014 season finale. He finished ninth, the final car on the lead lap.
• Ryan Vargas finished 10th in a last-minute appearance to give the Maples Motorsports team its second top-10 finish of the season; Ryan Roulette drove the No. 67 car to a ninth-place finish at Daytona.
