MADERA, Calif. — The ARCA Menards Series West will take on the one-third mile Madera Speedway in the 10th race of its season in Saturday’s Madera 150 Presented by West Coast Stock Car Motorsports Hall of Fame.
The race will be the 11th West race at Madera Speedway since the first in 1973.
• Trevor Huddleston (No. 50 High Point Racing / Racecar Factory Ford) leads the ARCA Menards West standings by 35 points over second place Mason Massey (No. 19 Mongoose Power Solutions Chevrolet).
Huddleston has two wins this season in back-to-back races at Shasta Speedway and Colorado National Speedway, while Massey also has collected two checkered flags in the season opener at Kevin Harvick’s Kern Raceway and on the road course at Portland International Raceway.
• Huddleston leads the series with a 4.00 average finish in nine starts this season. Robbie Kennealy (No. 1 Jan’s Towing / Jan’s Racing Ford) is second with a 7.00 average. Massey is third with a 7.44 average while Eric Johnson, Jr. (No. 5 Pacific Office Automation Toyota) and -Cole Denton (No. 71 Jan’s Towing / Jan’s Racing Ford) both have an 8.00 average.
Huddleston has won each of the last two ARCA Menards West races at Madera Speedway in 2024 and 2025. In those two races, he has led 295 of a possible 303 laps; he led all but eight laps in a 2024 race extended by three laps and every lap in 2025.
• Three female drivers are entered, with Kenna Mitchell (No. 13 Sinister Diesel / Berco Building Materials Ford), Mia Lovell (No. 15 Pine Health Toyota) and Hailie Deegan (No. 16 5.11 Tactical Chevrolet) all scheduled to make their first West starts at Madera Speedway.
• Hometown favorite Robbie Kennealy will look to better last year’s fourth-place finish at his home track. Kennealy finished 20th in the season opener at Kevin Harvick’s Kern Raceway but has racked up top-ten finishes in the eight races that have followed. He has a season-best second-place finish behind Huddleston at Colorado National Speedway.
• Ethan Nascimento will make his second start of the season fresh of his first career ARCA Menards Series West victory in his only other start of the season last time out at All American Speedway.
The Nascimento racing team, led by his father Eric Nascimento, Sr., has had success in their limited starts in 2026; in addition to Ethan’s victory at All American, older brother Eric, Jr. finished second in the season opener at Kevin Harvick’s Kern Raceway.
• The 21 cars entered matches the most entered for a West race in the track’s history. The only other time that number of teams entered was in 1996, a race won by Lance Hooper.
• Previous ARCA Menards Series West winners at Madera Speedway include Jack McCoy (1973), Bill Sedgwick (1989), Doug George (1995), Butch Gilliland (1996), Lance Hooper (1996), Mike Duncan (2003), Eric Holmes (2009), Kaden Honeycutt (2023), and Trevor Huddleston (2024, 2025).
• Eric Nascimento, Jr. holds the ARCA Menards Series West track qualifying record at Madera Speedway, set in 2023, at 14. 544 seconds/82.369 miles per hour.
• Butch Gilliland holds the ARCA Menards Series West race record at Madera Speedway, set in 1996, at 68.571 miles per hour.
