Jesse Love and Todd Souza
Jesse Love (No. 16) and Todd Souza (No. 13) in action during the General Tire 150 for the ARCA Menards Series and ARCA Menards Series West at Phoenix Raceway in Avondale, Arizona, on March 12, 2021. (Adam Glanzman/ARCA Racing)

PIT BOX: West Series Turns Right Into Heart Of Season At Sonoma

www.arcaracing.com June 2, 2021

Almost three months have passed since the ARCA Menards Series West began its 2021 season at Phoenix Raceway, where Ty Gibbs won a combination race with the ARCA Menards Series in March.

June is here, which means so is the first standalone West Series race of the season and the first of several summer events on the West Coast.

And the General Tire 200 at Sonoma Raceway, of course, presents unique challenges as the first of two road course races on the 2021 West Series schedule.

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Fans will be able to attend Saturday’s West Series race at Sonoma (buy tickets). The General Tire 200 will be shown live on NBC Sports Gold’s TrackPass with a delayed broadcast scheduled for Wednesday, June 9 at 6 p.m. ET on NBCSN.

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At Phoenix, ARCA Menards Series West regulars like Jesse Love, Todd Souza, Trevor Huddleston and Cole Moore had to compete against ARCA Menards Series regulars like Gibbs, Corey Heim and Thad Moffitt.

Those drivers will face more non-series regulars Saturday at Sonoma.

Chase Briscoe, who competes full-time in the NASCAR Cup Series for Stewart-Haas Racing, will run the West Series race Saturday at Sonoma as practice for Sunday’s Toyota / Save Mart 350.

The 2016 ARCA Menards Series champion, Briscoe has six wins in 22 AMS starts. He also ran three West Series races in 2013. He is entered at Sonoma an the No. 14 Huffy-Parker Boats Ford for Chad Bryant.

Dylan Lupton, who dabbles in the NASCAR Camping World Truck Series when he’s not racing ARCA Menards cars, is entered at Sonoma in the No. 4 Lupton Excavation Toyota for Bill McAnally Racing.

One of four BMR drivers in the field for Saturday’s race, Lupton registered one top five and two top 10s at Sonoma during the two full seasons he raced in the series in 2013 and 2014. From 2015 to 2020, Lupton made 50 starts across NASCAR’s three national levels.

Zane Smith, the full-time Truck Series driver who finished second in the 2018 ARCA Menards Series standings, will race at Sonoma in the No. 17W MadoroM Wine-Best Western Sonoma Chevrolet for Steve McGowan. Smith entered West Series race at Phoenix in March but was involved in a crash on the first lap.

The complete entry list for Saturday’s ARCA Menards Series West race at Sonoma can be viewed here.

RACING REFERENCE:

RACE FACTS

RACE General Tire 200
PLACE Sonoma Raceway in Sonoma, California
DATE Saturday, June 5, 2021
TIME 2 p.m. PT / 5 p.m. ET
TV/LIVE STREAM TrackPass on NBC Sports Gold
RADIO ARCARacing.com
TRACK LAYOUT 12-turn, 2.52-mile road course
LAPS 50
MILES 126 (201 kilometers)
EVENT SCHEDULE Saturday, June 5: Garage opens at 7:30 a.m.; Practice/Qualifying at 11:30 a.m.; General Tire 200 at 2 p.m. (All times PT)
TWITTER @ARCA_Racing, @NASCARRoots, @RaceSonoma, @_TrackPass

CREW CHIEF HANDOUT: The starting field for the General Tire 200 at Sonoma is limited to 30 plus provisional positions. This event will be run under the 2021 ARCA Menards Series West rules, procedures, regulations and specifications.

QUALIFYING: Field will be set by practice/qualifying session plus provisionals.

RACE PIT STOP: Break pitting procedure. There will be a break at or near the conclusion of Lap 25. No adding or moving tires to or from the pit box once the race has started.

The maximum tire allotment available for this event is as follows: The maximum tire use at track for the event is 12. Per ARCA Rulebook, maximum number of tires allowed in pit box for use in race is four (4). In the event of wet conditions, General Tire SC wet radial tires may be used on all four corners.