PIT BOX: ARCA Menards Series season picks up steam with annual trek to Berlin Raceway

After a few weekends off for the ARCA Menards Series, Berlin Raceway in Marne, Michigan is up next on the 2023 schedule. The sixth race of the season marks the series’ 33rd visit to the 7/16th-mile paved oval.

The ARCA Menards Series first visited Berlin in 1958, with Les Snow and Nelson Stacy splitting a pair of wins that year at the track. Berlin was a regular stop on the series schedule through the 1960s and early in the 1970s.

After more than a decade away, the series returned to Berlin in 1986, and Bob Keselowski secured his first ARCA triumph. Another long hiatus followed before Frank Kimmel won at Berlin in 1999.

Berlin, a NASCAR Home Track, has been a staple on the schedule nearly every year since, with drivers like Tim Steele, Joey Miller, Brian Keselowski, Scott Speed, Justin Lofton, Chris Buescher, Erik Jones, Grant Enfinger, Daniel Dye and, most recently, Sammy Smith visiting Victory Lane.

Tickets to Saturday’s Berlin ARCA 200 are available here. Below is everything to know about the event.

Berlin ARCA 200 at Berlin Raceway

WHAT TO WATCH FOR:

Momentum is on the side of Jesse Love as the ARCA Menards Series heads to Berlin this Saturday night for the sixth of 20 events on the 2023 schedule.

Love, the driver of the No. 20 Toyota for Venturini Motorsports, has won the last three ARCA Menards Series events at Talladega Superspeedway, Kansas Speedway and Charlotte Motor Speedway. Should he win Saturday at Berlin, it would be the 14th time in series history that a driver has won four consecutive ARCA events.

Looking to prevent Love from joining that exclusive club will be William Sawalich, who is making his second ARCA Menards Series start of the season after starting from the pole and leading the most laps at Phoenix Raceway in March.

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In addition to Love, Venturini Motorsports will also be fielding cars for Sean Hingorani and Toni Breidinger. Andres Perez de Lara will once again pilot the No. 2 for Rev Racing, and Frankie Muniz will look to earn his first ARCA Menards Series triumph aboard the No. 30 for Rette Jones Racing.

Two drivers — Tim Goulet and Matt Kemp — are scheduled to make their ARCA Menards Series debuts at Berlin.

The complete entry list for Saturday’s Berlin ARCA 200 is available here.

RACING REFERENCE:

• Previous ARCA races at Berlin
• ARCA Menards Series drivers at Berlin

RACE FACTS:

CREW CHIEF HANDOUT: The starting field for the Berlin ARCA 200 is limited to 26 starters plus provisionals. This event will run under the 2023 ARCA Menards Series rules, procedures, regulations, and specifications.

QUALIFYING: Two consecutive laps qualifying. No adjustments or repairs may be made on car after taking the green flag at Start/Finish line. All cars must make a qualifying attempt, and all drivers must practice before they can qualify.

RACE PIT STOP: Oval break pit stop procedure. Breaks at or near the conclusion of Laps 75 and 125. All cars will be required to make at least one pit stop prior to last 10 laps of race. No adding or moving tires to or from pit box once race has started. (Learn about all of ARCA’s pit stop procedures here.)

The maximum tire allotment available for this event is as follows: Per ARCA Rulebook, maximum number of tires allowed in pit box for use in race is six (6).