Todd Gilliland (No. 4 Frontline Enterprises Toyota) took home the first leg of the CGS Imaging Four Crown Championship with his Talladega victory. The Four Crown is a championship-within-a-championship that tests the mettle of ARCA Menards Series drivers at each of the four track types in the series. Talladega is the designated superspeedway race in the chase. Michigan will be the next race in the Four Crown, serving as the intermediate track in the challenge. Springfield (dirt) and the fall event at Salem (short track) will finish out the CGS Imaging Four Crown schedule. The current Four Crown standings follow the race results from Talladega, with Riley Herbst (No. 18 Monster Energy Toyota) and Brandon Lynn (No. 20 Carolina Excavation & Grading Toyota) round out the current podium.
The win prompted Gilliland’s No. 4 car owner, Bo LeMastus, to move up to second in the General Tire Superspeedway Challenge Standings. Double points were awarded to team owners in the Superspeedway Challenge point standings due to General Tire’s sponsorship of the Talladega race. Billy Venturini and his No. 20 Venturini Motorsports Toyota continue to lead there with 900 points. LeMastus has 810 points and No. 18 Joe Gibbs Racing car owner Coy Gibbs bookends the top three with 800 points.
Venturini was the Cometic Crew Chief of the Race for Talladega after leading driver Brandon Lynn to a third-place finish. Venturini leads the Cometic Crew Chief of the Year standings with 26 points. Paul Andrews, crew chief of the No. 22 Chad Bryant Racing Ford, moves into second with 47 points while Mark McFarland, crew chief of the No. 18 Joe Gibbs Racing Toyota, takes over third with 56 points.
Lynn was the General Tire Pole Award winner for the first time at Talladega. He joins Christian Eckes (No. 15 JBL Audio Toyota; Daytona), Chandler Smith (No. 20 Craftsman Toyota; Pensacola) and Carson Hocevar (No. 28 KBR Development Chevrolet; Salem) as General Tire Pole Award winners so far in 2019.
Grant Quinlan (No. 30 Jones Demolition & Abatement Ford) survived and thrived in his Talladega Superspeedway debut, earning Bounty Rookie of the Race honors with his ninth-place finish. Quinlan was named the Bounty Rookie of the Race for the first time in only his third career AMS start. Tommy Vigh Jr. (No. 10 Extreme Kleaner Toyota) still leads the Bounty Rookie Challenge yearly standings with 108 points, despite a hard crash at Talladega. His closest competition, Christian Eckes, was also involved in a crash and finished last at Talladega. Eckes looked to rebound after missing Salem with an illness. He holds the second spot in the Bounty Rookie Challenge standings with 86 points. Corey Heim (No. 22 Speedway Children’s Charities Ford) is in third with 56 points, having not competed at the superspeedway due to age restrictions.
The Chad Bryant-owned No. 22 Ford sits atop the R.E. Lightning Challenge standings after four races with 795 points. The standings are calculated by adding together race points only throughout the year from teams that run the Racing Electronics contingency decal. Ty Majeski piloted the No. 22 to a fourth-place finish at Talladega in his first AMS race of 2019. Don Fike’s No. 27 RFMS Racing Ford, driven by Travis Braden, is second in the standings with 735 points. Third place is a tie between David Gilliland’s No. 54 Toyota (driven by Natalie Decker and Tanner Gray) and Stacy Holmes’ No. 23 Chevrolet (driven by his son Bret Holmes) with 680 points.
The younger Holmes was no doubt looking for a better finish than 14th at his home track of Talladega, but at the least, he can say that he completed all of the laps for the first time since 2016, maintaining his lead in the S&S Volvo Laps Completed standings in the process. Bret Holmes has had notoriously bad luck at the superspeedways of the ARCA Menards Series in his career, often becoming involved in crashes not of his own doing. With 461 laps completed on the year, Holmes has four more laps completed than current runner-up Joe Graf Jr. (No. 77 Eat Sleep Race Ford), who has 457 laps completed in 2019. Travis Braden (No. 27 MatrixCare Ford) is in third with 455 laps completed.
Toyota leads the hunt for the manufacturer’s title with 36 points and victories in all four races this year. Ford is in second with 22 points, Chevrolet is in third with 18 points, and Dodge is in fourth with six points.
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