Trevor Huddleston
(Photo: David Dennis/ARCA Racing)

News and Notes: Madera 150 at Madera Speedway

www.arcaracing.com September 25, 2025

The ARCA Menards Series West returns to Madera Speedway for the tenth time in series history for Saturday’s Madera 150 presented by the West Coast Stock Car Motorsports Hall of Fame and Madera Ford.

The race is the tenth of 12 for the ARCA Menards Series West in 2025 and the 1,038th in series history dating to its inception in 1954. The series initially visited Madera Speedway for the first time in 1973 when Jack McCoy, the winningest driver in West Series history, visited Victory Lane.

Other previous West Series winners at Madera have included Bill Sedgwick (1989), Doug George (1995), Butch Gilliland (1996), Lance Hooper (1996), Mike Duncan (2003), Eric Holmes (2009), Kaden Honeycutt (2023) and Trevor Huddleston (2024). Below are the storylines ahead of the Madera 150.

  • Trevor Huddleston (No. 50 High Point Racing / Racecar Factory Ford) is the defending winner at Madera Speedway and he leads the ARCA Menards Series West into Madera with two wins so far in 2025, both at Kevin Harvick’s Kern Raceway. He leads the series championship standings by 12 points over Kyle Keller (No. 71 Jan’s Towing / Jan’s Racing Ford) with three races remaining in the season. Huddleston started second and led 145 of the race’s 153 laps in 2024.
  • Keller and his Jan’s Racing teammate Robbie Kennealy (No. 1 Jan’s Towing / Jan’s Racing Ford) head into Madera Speedway with momentum in their side. Keller scored his first career series victory three races ago at Tri-City Raceway, while Kennealy dominated the most recent series race at All American Speedway, winning the General Tire Pole Award in qualifying and leading every lap en route to his first career victory.
  • Tanner Reif (No. 13 Central Coast Cabinets Toyota) hopes to rebound from a disappointing race at All American Speedway. Reif started outside the front row, but was deemed to have jumped the start and was forced to serve a stop-and-go penalty which took him from the lead to the tail of the field. Reif rebounded to finish eighth, but it was his fourth consecutive race finish outside the top five.
  • Last year’s General Tire Pole Award winner Jaron Giannini (No. 23 Versatile & Stone / Third Gen Racecars Toyota) will make his second start of the 2025 season. Giannini, who finished sixth at Madera in 2024, finished seventh in his only other 2025 start at Kevin Harvick’s Kern Raceway in June.
  • Eric Nascimento Jr. (No. 4 Impact Transportation / RJ’s Paintshop/Phillips Bros. Fab & Construction Chevrolet) will make his third start of the season, as will Andrew Chapman (No. 55 High Point Racing / Racecar Factory Ford). Nascimento finished ninth at Sonoma Raceway and then battled to a sixth-place finish last time out at All American Speedway. Chapman was sixth in his debut at Kevin Harvick’s Kern Raceway in June and then notched a career-best third at All American Speedway.
  • Former ARCA Menards Series winner Joey Iest (No. 88 Shockwave Ford) will make his second start of the season; he was fourth at All American Speedway in his 2025 debut. Iest scored his first and to date only career ARCA Menards Series West victory at Colorado National Speedway in 2021.
  • Eric Nascimento Jr. holds the ARCA Menards Series West track record, set in 2023, at 14.544 seconds / 82.369 miles per hour.
  • Butch Gilliland holds the ARCA Menards Series West track race record, set in 1996, at 68.571 miles per hour.
  • The Madera 150 Presented by The West Coast Stock Car Motorsports Hall of Fame and Madera Ford will be streamed live on FloRacing starting at 10:30 pm ET / 7:30 pm PT on Saturday, September 27. Live timing & scoring data will be available on ARCARacing.com; for up-to-the-minute updates please follow @ARCA_Racing on X (formerly known as Twitter).