Johnny Borneman will drive the No. 41 for at least half of the ARCA Menards Series West season for Lowden-Jackson Motorsports, team owner Chris Lowden told Frontstretch.
Borneman will run the first six races, though he could contest the full season for the team. LJM will field the No. 41 full time. In addition to the No. 41, LJM could field the No. 46 in a few races too.
Tony Jackson will serve as the crew chief. Tillys will serve as the primary sponsor and Stoney’s Rockin’ Country, Lowden’s own business, will serve as the associate sponsor throughout the season.
“We’re focused on Borneman,” Lowden said. “The idea is, let’s focus on him and the No. 41 for the first three to four races.”
LJM began 2023 with Tyler Reif and RJ Smotherman both full time in the West. Additionally, the team planned on fielding Reif full time in the ARCA Menards Series East with Smotherman part time in that series too.
The organization started on a high note when Reif won the West season opener at Phoenix Raceway, which was also a combination race with the ARCA Menards Series. Yet Reif left the team midseason for Central Coast Racing. Smotherman meanwhile only contested the first three races of the season with the team before he left to drive the No. 38 for team owner John Wood.
Reif will compete full time for CCR in 2024. Smotherman is still searching for funding, telling Frontstretch, “We aren’t going to make the big races but going to try for some of the short tracks.”
The driver changes left Lowden unhappy, so he decided to get back to basics for the 2024 season.
“Given all the nonsense we went through last year in the last half of the season, just trying to pull back and say, ‘Guys, let’s just focus on this and let’s go racing,’” he continued. “We want to be the best we can at it and with the group of guys who work well together. Then once we feel like we have a good base, we can possibly expand. For this year, at least at the beginning, let’s regroup, start a little bit smaller and build our base, then figure it out.
“The core group, we want to go racing and enjoy it. It’s not a business for us, right. We want to have fun at it. So that’s what we are trying to get back to. We all know each other, we respect each other, we like each other and it all makes sense.”
Lowden still owns four Ford racecars. Borneman joined the team for the 2023 season finale at Phoenix and piloted the No. 41…
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