Tennessee’s Nashville Fairgrounds Speedway welcomes back the ARCA Menards Series East for the seventh time in history this Saturday evening for the running of the Music City 150 (8:30 p.m. CT / 9:30 p.m. ET on FloRacing).
Saturday’s race serves as the third of eight on the 2025 East Series schedule and the third of four standalone events for the series this year. Rookie Isaac Kitzmiller, fresh off a sixth-place effort at Rockingham Speedway, leads the East Series standings ahead of Saturday’s race at Nashville.
The East Series first visited Nashville in 2007, when Rogelio Lopez drove to Victory Lane. Other East Series victors at Nashville include Matt Kobyluck, Sammy Smith, Luke Fenhaus and William Sawalich.
Tickets to Saturday’s Music City 150 at Nashville Fairgrounds Speedway are available here. Below is everything you need to know about the third race of the 2025 East Series season.
Music City 150 at Nashville Fairgrounds Speedway
He may be a rookie, but it’ll be hard to bet against Max Reaves when the ARCA Menards Series East invades Nashville Fairgrounds Speedway this Saturday night for the Music City 150.
Reaves, of course, will be the driver of the No. 18 Toyota for Joe Gibbs Racing. The No. 18 team, which has flown both the Joe Gibbs Racing and Kyle Busch Motorsports flag in recent years, has dominated Nashville Fairgrounds Speedway since the East Series returned to the historic track in 2021.
In the four East Series races held at Nashville since 2021, the No. 18 has led 606 of a possible 755 laps. That’s just more than 80 percent of laps completed at the 0.596-mile asphalt oval.
That logically makes Reaves the favorite going into Saturday’s Music City 150. He’s already scored one win this year, which came in his East Series debut at Five Flags Speedway in Pensacola, Florida, so a win Saturday at Nashville is hardly out of the question.
Reaves will face stiff competition from several East Series regulars, including Sigma Performance Services’ Tyler Reif, AM Racing’s Kole Raz and A.L.L. Construction Racing’s Isaac Kitzmiller. Each have been competitive this year in the two East Series events held thus far, and each will be looking to keep Reaves and Joe Gibbs Racing in check Saturday at Nashville.
A pair of Nashville favorites, Hunter Wright and Jackson McLerran, will be among the competitors as teammates out of the MAN Motorsports stable. Brian Finney, who last competed on the ARCA platform in 2020, is set to return to competition in a car out of his own stable.
Two drivers, Quinn Davis and Jeff Maconi, are scheduled to make their ARCA platform debuts Saturday at Nashville.
The full entry list for Saturday’s Music City 150 will be available later this week.
RACING REFERENCE:
RACE FACTS:
| RACE | Music City 150 |
| PLACE | Nashville Fairgrounds Speedway |
| LOCATION | Nashville, Tennessee |
| DATE | Saturday, May 3, 2025 |
| TIME | 9:30 p.m. ET / 8:30 p.m. CT |
| HOW TO WATCH | FloRacing |
| AUDIO | ARCARacing.com |
| TRACK LAYOUT | 0.596-mile paved oval |
| LAPS | 150 |
| TICKETS | Here |
CREW CHIEF HANDOUT: The starting field for the Music City 150 is limited to 22 starters plus provisionals. This event will be run under the 2025 ARCA Menards Series East rules, procedures, regulations and specifications.
QUALIFYING: The starting lineup is set by the fastest of two laps in single car qualifying.
RACE PIT STOP: Break pitting procedure. Break at/or near the conclusion of Lap 75. No adding or moving tires to or from pit box once race has started
TIRE ALLOTMENT: Per ARCA Rulebook, maximum tire usage for this event (purchased plus from-home tires) is 12.
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