Several familiar faces were seen in the ARCA garage throughout the weekend. Chase Briscoe, 2016 ARCA Menards Series champion, spent time in the garage visiting with friends including the Chad Bryant Racing team. Briscoe and Bryant teamed to win the title under the Cunningham Motorsports banner.
Former Talladega winner Justin Haley was also a visitor to the garage prior to the start of the weekend’s on track activity for the NASCAR XFINITY Series and the Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series. Haley finished seventh in the NXS race on Saturday and was running the lead group on Sunday before being swept up in a crash with just eight laps remaining.
Sheldon Creed was inducted into the International Motorsports Hall of Fame ARCA Wall of Champions on Thursday. Creed attended with his mother Renee. Creed was returning to North Carolina from California after delivering one of his championship-winning cars from MDM Motorsports to his grandfather Maurice and stopped at Talladega on the way back.
Red Farmer, a two-time ARCA winner at Talladega in 1984 and 1988, was at the track on Friday. Farmer will turn 87 this year and is still active building and racing dirt late models. “I was 56 when I won that race in 1988, and that was thirty years ago,” Farmer laughed in the media center. With that win, Farmer nearly unseated Iggy Katona as ARCA’s oldest superspeedway winner. Katona was 57 when he won his last superspeedway event at Daytona in 1974.
Dan Glauz, crew chief for RFMS Racing and driver Travis Braden, toured the International Motorsports Hall of Fame with his team following inspection on Thursday. Glauz was reunited with one of his championship-winning racecars driven by Tim Steele in 1993. The Oldsmobile Cutlass is on display in one of three main galleries at the museum. “We originally built this car to be a Busch Series car,” he said. “It came out so light we made it into an ARCA car. It still has the same quick change rear end we had in it when we donated it back in 1993. It’s just like it was when we raced it.”
Michael Self assumes the lead in the championship standings by five points over Travis Braden. Braden entered the race with a five-point advantage and finished seventh, two positions behind Self.
Twenty-two of the race’s 26 starters were running at the finish. Christian Eckes and Tommy Vigh, Jr., both contenders for the Bounty Rookie Challenge, were eliminated in separate crashes. Thad Moffitt was also involved in the Eckes crash but eventually retired due to a broken oil line. Thomas Praytor was sidelined with just a couple of laps remaining with a transmission problem.
Sean Corr led a race-high 35 laps, the first time he’s led since 2018 at Daytona. Corr had only led 30 laps in his ARCA Menards Series career prior to Friday.
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