The ARCA Menards Series heads to Kansas Speedway for its fifth race of the 2024 season and its third race weekend in a row. The Tide 150 is slated to kick off a trio of races at the racetrack throughout the weekend.
There are 26 teams entered on the preliminary entry list for Kansas, tied for the second most since 2017, which is only behind last May’s race, which saw 28 cars enter.
Historically, ARCA at Kansas has seen a plethora of winners go on to have successful careers in the higher ranks of the sport. Alex Bowman, Ty Gibbs, Corey Heim, Chase Briscoe, Parker Kligerman, and more recently Jesse Love and Nick Sanchez, have all found victory lane at the 1.5-mile speedway.
One former winner is in the field this weekend, as Connor Mosack will pilot the No. 28 Chevrolet for Pinnacle Racing Group. Mosack won the last time the series was at Kansas in September, driving for Joe Gibbs Racing.
A pair of NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series regulars will be in the ARCA field, pulling double duty. Dean Thompson will return to Venturini Motorsports, driving the No. 55. Thompson made five starts with the team last year, including both races at Kansas. In those races, he finished second and eighth, respectively. It’ll be Thompson’s first ARCA start of the 2024 season.
Lawless Alan and Reaume Brothers Racing will field an ARCA entry this week for the first time this season as well. It’ll be the first time the RBR banner is run in ARCA. For Alan, it’ll be his first ARCA-sanctioned start since 2020, when he ran a handful of ARCA Menards Series West races for Bill McAnally Racing. Alan will carry sponsorship from AUTOParkIt, much like he does in his Truck Series efforts.
Alongside Thompson and its trio of full-time drivers, VMS will have Jake Finch back in its No. 20 this weekend. It’ll be Finch’s first start since his dominating win at Talladega Superspeedway, a race in which he led every lap. Finch has seen Kansas before, finishing fifth there last September, also driving for VMS that day. As for the other three VMS drivers, each will look to rebound from Dover Motor Speedway, a race in which all three were involved in incidents, and only Kris Wright notched a top 10.
The current points leader, Andres Perez de Lara, heads to Kansas for the third time in his career this weekend. His first attempt was his strongest, finishing sixth last May, but he followed it up in September with a 17th-place finish. Perez de Lara has…
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