This weekend, the ARCA Menards Series heads to the Kansas Speedway for the Reese’s 150, the penultimate race of the 2024 season.
The entry list sees 28 cars entered for the event, which is up from the 24 at Kansas in May and the 21 that last September.
In the spring event, Tanner Gray dominated much of the race, only to be passed by Connor Mosack late in the race, who went on to win. It was a similar outcome last fall at Kansas as well, with Mosack once again finding victory lane.
This time around, however, the series is guaranteed to have a new Kansas winner, as the incumbent Mosack is not entered for this weekend. The biggest storyline with two races left in the season is the championship battle. Andres Perez left Bristol Motor Speedway last weekend with a 53-point buffer over teammate Lavar Scott and should have the championship all but locked up, barring two disastrous races.
For his standards, Perez has struggled at Kansas in his career. He’s never finished better than sixth in three races, and he has a finish outside of the top 15 to his name. However, the 19-year-old enters this weekend on quite a hot streak of consistency, finishing inside of the top 10 in eight of the last 10 ARCA races. Simply starting and finishing Friday evening’s race should lock Perez in as the 2024 ARCA champion.
As for his teammate Scott, the elder Rev Racing driver enters in a proverbial points position lock as well, with the runner-up position virtually impossible to lose. Scott has two previous Kansas starts, earning a top five last September and a 13th-place finish back in May after mechanical issues. Like his teammate Perez, Scott has been on quite the roll lately. He’s finished nine of the last 10 races in the top 10, with seven of those races inside of the top five. The lone exception was a 15th at Michigan International Speedway.
Rev Racing will bring a third car this weekend for the second time in as many weeks and the third time this season, as Sebastian Arias is entered in the team No. 9. It’s Arias’ second race of the season with the team, after he finished 10th at Charlotte Motor Speedway in May.
Joe Gibbs Racing will have its final race of the season without William Sawalich behind the wheel. Instead, it’ll be Tanner Gray. Gray ran the May race at Kansas, finishing runner-up to Mosack after dominating most of the race. In all, Gray has run five races in the series this season, finishing third or better…
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