ARCA Notes: Queen Lifts Championship Trophy

TOLEDO, Ohio — Brenden Queen finished second in the Owens Corning 200 Presented by CGS Imaging at Toledo Speedway, but by virtue of starting the race locked up the 2025 ARCA Menards Series championship over runner-up Lavar Scott.

Queen, driver of the Pinnacle Racing Group No. 28 Chevrolet, ended the season with eight victories, 17 top-five finishes, and four General Tire Pole awards.

His unofficial margin of victory in the points standings was a dominant 106 points.

The Pinnacle Racing Group No. 28 team owned by Mark Webb won the ARCA Menards Series Owners Championship by 16 points over Joe Gibbs Racing’s No. 18 team.

It’s the first team owner’s championship for Pinnacle Racing Group.

Joe Gibbs Racing ended the season with six victories, three each between Reaves and Brent Crews.

• Max Reaves (No. 18 Cook Out Toyota) dominated the race, starting from the General Tire Pole and leading 199 of the race’s 200 laps.

Queen was able to race his way past shortly after the final restart of the day, but Reaves quickly returned the favor to retake the lead.

It was Reaves’ third ARCA Menards Series win of the year to go along with three ARCA Menards Series East wins.

• Tristan McKee (No. 82 Gainbridge / Chevrolet Performance Chevrolet) finished third, his third top-five finish in four career starts. McKee won in his ARCA Menards Series debut at Watkins Glen International at just 15 years, 6 days of age.

• Isabella Robusto (No. 55 Mobil 1 Toyota) became the second female Bounty Rookie Challenge rookie of the year when she took the green flag in the Owens Corning 200. Robusto finished fourth, her ninth top-five finish of the season and eleventh of her career.

She is just one shy of tying the record for most top-five finishes by a female driver, 12, set by Erin Crocker Evernham.

• Tyler Reif (No. 23 Sigma Performance Services / Vegas Fastener Chevrolet) finished fifth, his third top-five finish of the season.

• Taylor Reimer (No. 25 BuzzBallz Toyota) finished sixth in her first ARCA Menards Series start on a paved short track. She finished fifth last weekend at Kansas Speedway in her first series start on pavement.

• Willie Mullins (No. 3 CW Metals / Bugsy’s Fleet Repair Ford) finished seventh, his fourth consecutive top-ten finish and his best finish of 2025.

• Julian DaCosta (No. 20 Venturini Motorsports Toyota) finished eighth, giving Venturini Motorsports all three cars in the team’s final event in the ARCA Menards Series.

Two-time ARCA Menards Series champion Bill Venturini and his wife Cathy, herself a two-time ARCA Menards Series championship winning car owner and crew chief, were presented with ARCA Gold Card lifetime memberships during pre-race activities by ARCA president Ron Drager.

• Jason Kitzmiller (No. 97 A.L.L. Construction / Carter CAT Chevrolet) finished ninth, recovering from a flat right front tire on lap 71 that cost him four laps. Kitzmiller unofficially held on to third in the ARCA Menards Series standings by eight points over Isabella Robusto.

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