PIT BOX: Lime Rock Park welcomes the ARCA Menards Series for the first time

The first road-course race of the 2025 ARCA Menards Series season will deliver a new venue and state for the national platform in the 1.53-mile complex of Lime Rock Park in Lakeville, Connecticut.

Built in 1955, Lime Rock has hosted events for numerous prestigious auto racing divisions that have attracted many of the best competitors in United States history. The list of drivers who have won events at Lime Rock include Mario Andretti, Mark Donohue, Rodger Ward, Scott Pruett, Ron Fellows and Dorsey Schroeder, among many others.

Although Saturday is the first race for the national ARCA Menards Series at Lime Rock, the East Series possesses a storied history at the facility. From 1993-2010, Lime Rock was a regular venue on the East Series calendar, with Butch Leitzinger and Matt Kobyluck tallying the most wins of any competitor there with three apiece.

A fresh group of drivers are set to write the ARCA Menards Series’ first chapter at Lime Rock this weekend. With many drivers on the entry list having never turned a competitive lap around Lime Rock, plenty of unknowns await those who seek to conquer the track and visit its historic Victory Lane.

Tickets to the Lime Rock Park 100 can be purchased here. Below is everything to know ahead of the ninth race of the 2025 season.

Lime Rock Park 100

Fresh off guiding Max Reaves to his first national ARCA Menards Series victory at Elko Speedway, Joe Gibbs Racing is primed to earn another checkered flag this weekend.

Piloting the No. 18 Toyota at Lime Rock Park is Brent Crews, a vital component of the Toyota driver development program who’s renowned for his road-course experience. A champion in the Trans Am Championship TA2 class in 2023, Crews has also made three starts at Lime Rock on that platform, scoring a personal best finish of seventh during his title campaign.

Another alum from the Trans Am TA2 class on the Lime Rock entry list this weekend is Thomas Annunziata, who is in the No. 70 Toyota for Nitro Motorsports. Having never finished outside the top three in Trans Am TA2 competition at Lime Rock, Annunziata seeks to build on his efficiency and deliver Nitro the team’s second ARCA Menards Series victory.

Venturini Motorsports is also bringing a road-course expert to Lime Rock in the form of Alon Day, a four-time champion in the NASCAR Euro Series PRO Division. Day has made a handful of starts across NASCAR’s top three series, but Saturday’s Lime Rock 100 will serve as his debut with the ARCA Menards Series.

Pinnacle Racing Group enters Lime Rock having won the most recent ARCA Menards Series road-course event at Watkins Glen International last season with Connor Zilisch behind the wheel. The team will look to secure another road-course checkered flag Saturday with Brenden “Butterbean” Queen, who holds an 11-point lead in the standings.

Other names set to compete at Lime Rock Park on Saturday include Dale Quarterley, Glen Reen, Ryan Gemmell, Jeff Anton, Ed Pompa and Brayton Laster.

The complete entry list for the Lime Rock Park 100 is available here.

RACE FACTS:

CREW CHIEF HANDOUT: Field limited to 26 starters plus provisionals. This event will be run under the 2025 ARCA Menards Series rules, procedures, regulations and specifications.

QUALIFYING: General Tire Pole Qualifying will be by Timed Session procedure. The starting lineup will be determined by each car’s best timed in the session results. Cars will be impounded after qualifying.

RACE PIT STOP: Break pit stop procedure. Break at or near lap 33. No adding or moving tires to or from pit box once race has started. Tire changes outside the break must be wet to dry or dry to wet unless approved by ARCA.

TIRE ALLOTMENT: Per ARCA Rulebook, maximum tire usage for this event (purchased plus from-home tires) is 14, plus wets. In the event of wet conditions, General Tire SC wet radial tires may be used on all four corners.