ARCA Notes: Queen’s Domination; Top Iowa Finishers

TOLEDO, Ohio — Brenden notched his fifth ARCA Menards Series victory of the season and his first on a track less than a mile in length in Friday’s Atlas 150 at Iowa Speedway.

Queen qualified the Pinnacle Group Chevrolet second and led 112 of the race’s 150 laps. Queen leads the series with a 4.9 average finish, 744 laps led, and 1591 of a possible 1,595 laps completed.

• Brent Crews finished second after earning the General Tire Pole Award with a new track record in qualifying. Crews, who led 38 laps on the evening, turned in a lap at 22.901 seconds/137.549 mph to eclipse the previous record set by Steven Wallace at 22.932 seconds at the track’s inaugural race in 2006.

• Lawless Alan (No. 20 AUTOParkIt Toyota) finished third, his fifth third-place finish of 2025. Alan, who won at Talladega Superspeedway in April, unofficially trails Queen by 33 points with eight races remaining.

• Isabella Robusto (No. 55 Mobil 1 Toyota) finished fourth for the second consecutive race. Robusto has three consecutive top-five finishes. Despite three finishes outside the top twenty, she has raised her average finish to 11.0.

• Lavar Scott (No. 6 Max Siegel Inc. Chevrolet) finished fifth, his eighth top-five finish of the season and his sixth fifth-place result. Scott leads the series with 11 top-ten finishes in 12 races.

• Isaac Kitzmiller (No. 79 A.L.L. Construction / Carter CAT Chevrolet) finished sixth to extend his lead in the ARCA Menards Series East championship standings over Tyler Reif (No. 23 Vegas Fastener / Sigma Performance Services Chevrolet), who finished eleventh. Kitzmiller unofficially enters the final round of the 2025 East season at Bristol Motor Speedway with a 19-point lead over Reif.

• Sam Corry (No. 70 Nitro Motorsports Toyota) finished seventh, his first career top-10 finish. Corry, who was the final driver to finish on the leap lap, made his debut and finished 13th at Lucas Oil Indianapolis Raceway Park.

• Eloy Falcon (No. 2 Max Siegel Inc. Chevrolet) scored his best career ARCA Menards Series finish in eighth. Falcon finished second in his first series start at Michigan International Speedway in June; he finished an impressive third in his first ARCA Menards Series East start at Rockingham Speedway in April.

• Mason Mitchell (No. 25 Pro-Seed USA Toyota), the 2014 ARCA Menards Series champion and 2015 winner at Iowa Speedway, finished ninth.

• Jason Kitzmiller (No. 97 A.L.L. Construction / Carter CAT Chevrolet) finished 10th, his ninth top-10 finish of the season.

• There were five lead changes among two drivers; the caution waved eight times for 35 laps.

• The next race for the ARCA Menards Series is the General Tire 100 at Watkins Glen International on Friday, August 8.

 

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