FAST FACTS: Kansas ARCA 150

Where: Kansas Speedway, Kansas City, Kansas
When: 8:30 pm ET, Friday, October 18, 2019
Television: MAVTV, Live
Track Length: 1.5-miles
Most Recent Winner: Sheldon Creed, October 19, 2019, 90.812 miles per hour
Most Recent Pole Winner: Drew Herring, October 19, 2019, 181.038 miles per hour
Track Qualifying Record: Alex Bowman, October 19, 2012, 184.550 miles per hour

• The Kansas ARCA 150 is the 20th and final race of the 2019 ARCA Menards Series Season. Christian Eckes enters with a 15-point advantage in the championship points standings over Venturini Motorsports teammate Michael Self.
• There have been 18 previous ARCA Menards Series races at Kansas Speedway. Ten-time series champion Frank Kimmel leads all drivers with three victories, followed by Alex Bowman with two. Other drivers with one win include Jason Jarrett, Shelby Howard, Ryan Hemphill, Chad Blount, Scott Lagasse, Jr., Scott Speed, Parker Kligerman, Ty Dillon, Spencer Gallagher, Mason Mitchell, Chase Briscoe, Michael Self, and Sheldon Creed.
• Previous General Tire Pole Award winners at Kansas Speedway include Ryan Newman, Frank Kimmel, Ryan Hemphill, Joey Miller, Brad Coleman, Justin Marks, Ken Butler III, Mikey Kile, Max Gresham, Alex Bowman, Dylan Kwasniewski, Mason Mitchell, Daniel Suarez, Sheldon Creed, and Drew Herring. Qualifying has been canceled due to weather twice.
• Travis Braden, currently fourth in the ARCA Menards Series championship point standings, will be making his 50th career series start in the Kansas ARCA 150. Braden has one career series win, in his series debut in 2015 at Lucas Oil Raceway in suburban Indianapolis. A two-time ARCA/CRA Super Series champion, he recently won the CRA Jegs All-Star Tour 100-lap feature at Winchester Speedway.
• Defending series champion and defending race winner Sheldon Creed will make his second series start of 2019. A full-time competitor with GMS Racing in the NASCAR Gander Outdoors Truck Series, Creed started seventh and finished second earlier this season at Charlotte.
• Seventeen of the 18 ARCA Menards Series races at Kansas Speedway have been won from a top ten starting position. The deepest anyone has come from at the start to win is 32nd, by Spencer Gallagher in 2014. The race has been won from a front row starting position nine times.
• Kansas City is known for the Royals, which is a baseball team and not a family that rules over the entire area.
• The record for the most lead changes in an ARCA Menards Series race at Kansas Speedway is eleven, set three times in 2001, 2007, and 2008. The fewest lead changes is two, set in 2016 in a race won by Chase Briscoe.
• The record for the most cautions in an ARCA Menards Series race at Kansas Speedway is ten for a record 53 laps, set in 2006 in a race won by Frank Kimmel. The fewest cautions in an ARCA Menards Series race at Kansas Speedway is three, set in 2007, 2010, and 2017. The record for fewest laps under caution is 17 in 2010 in a race won by Ty Dillon.