ARCA at Kansas: Notes and stats for the Reese’s 150

With only two races left in the 2024 ARCA Menards Series season, the series returns to Kansas Speedway this Friday for the running of the Reese’s 150.

Several top contenders will be in the field chasing a trip to Victory Lane, including ARCA Menards Series championship leader Andres Perez, Connor Zilisch, Tanner Gray, Lavar Scott, Greg Van Alst and more.

The Reese’s 150 is scheduled to start at 4:30 p.m. CT / 5:30 p.m. ET. FS1 will provide live TV coverage of the 100-lap race, and a radio call can be heard on MRN.

Below are some storylines and stats ahead of ARCA’s second visit of the 2024 season to Kansas Speedway.

Reese’s 150 at Kansas Speedway

• The Reese’s 150 will be the 19th race of 20 for the ARCA Menards Series in 2024. It will be the 29th ARCA Menards Series race at Kansas Speedway since 2001.
• Andres Perez (No. 2 Max Siegel Inc. Chevrolet) leads the ARCA Menards Series championship standings by 53 points headed into the Reese’s 150. Perez is still searching for his first ARCA Menards Series victory. Kansas Speedway is a track where his Rev Racing team has won twice before with 2022 ARCA Menards Series champion Nick Sanchez driving. Perez has two top-10 finishes in three Kansas Speedway starts, including a best of sixth in May 2023. He finished seventh there earlier this season.
• Lavar Scott (No. 6 Max Siegel Inc. Chevrolet) sits second in the series standings behind his teammate. Scott finished fourth in his first start at Kansas Speedway in 2023 and was challenging for the victory in May when he scrubbed the wall and was forced to make an unscheduled stop for repairs, resulting in a 14th-place finish.
• Tanner Gray (No. 18 A Place of Hope Toyota) finished second at Kansas Speedway in May after leading a race-high 84 laps. Gray rebounded from that disappointment to score his first career ARCA Menards Series victory at Charlotte Motor Speedway three weeks later. He finished third at Michigan International Speedway in his only ARCA Menards Series start since his Charlotte win.

• Isabella Robusto (No. 55 Mobil 1 Toyota) will make her fourth career ARCA Menards Series start and her first since finishing second in her dirt track debut at the Illinois State Fairgrounds in August. Robusto has finished second in all three series across the ARCA Menards Series platform; in addition to her runner-up finish at Springfield, she finished second in the East Series race at Nashville Fairgrounds Speedway and the July 4 West Series race at Irwindale Speedway. The Kansas race will be her first on a track longer than a mile in length.
• Pinnacle Racing Group will field two entries for the second consecutive ARCA Menards Series race. Five-time ARCA Menards Series winner Connor Zilisch (No. 28 Silver Hare Development / Chevrolet Performance Chevrolet) will be teamed with sprint car standout Corey Day (No. 82 HendrickCars.com Chevrolet). Zilisch won in his superspeedway debut at Michigan International Speedway in August. Day finished seventh at Bristol Motor Speedway in his second career series start and will be making his first start on an intermediate track.
• Nagoya, Japan, resident Takuma Koga (No. 12 IKEDO Toyota) will make his second ARCA Menards Series start this year and his first since he finished 23rd in the combination race with the ARCA Menards Series West at Phoenix Raceway in March. Koga will race at Kansas Speedway Friday then travel to California to race in Saturday night’s ARCA Menards Series West race at Madera Speedway.

• Kris Wright (No. 15 FNB Corporation Toyota) is third in the ARCA Menards Series championship standings, but will be looking to break a two-race streak of finishing outside the top 10. Wright, who has six top-five finishes this season, including a career-best second at Talladega Superspeedway, finished 12th at Watkins Glen International and 13th at Bristol Motor Speedway.
• Toni Breidinger (No. 25 BoozyJerky Toyota) is fourth in the ARCA Menards Series standings and is returning to the site of her career best finish, third, which she scored last September. Breidinger is 42 points behind her teammate Wright in the battle for third in the standings. Should he finish third, she would tie Hailie Deegan, who was third in 2020, as the best finishing female driver in driver point standings in series history.
• The Reese’s 150 will be run under the modified live pit stop format. Every caution is an opportunity for teams to make a pit stop. Drivers who pit cannot lose positions relative to other drivers who pit as long as they do not lose a lap on pit road. The restart order will consist of lead lap cars that didn’t pit, lead lap cars that did pit, lap down cars that didn’t pit, lap down cars that did pit, the free pass car, cars that took a wave around and cars under penalty. There will be a scheduled caution at or near lap 50.
• Should the race need to be extended into overtime, there will be unlimited attempts at a two-lap green/white/checkered finish. If the yellow flag is displayed after the white flag, there will be unlimited attempts at a one-lap green/white followed by checkered finish.