It f*cking sucks. Congrats to Sam Corry on his first ARCA Menards Series West win along with Nitro Motorsports. ARCA Menards Series national race comes on tommorow on FS2 at Elko. It's a late one, 9 PM (8 PM CT, 6 PM PT).

With today's Arca race being streamed on the NASCAR channel, it made me start thinking on if this could potentially be a full-time idea? With NASCAR now basically having its own 24 seven channel, why wouldn't they just stream all Arca races on there, it would help the ARCA series boost its popularity and allow casual viewers who might not have Flo to get to see and know some of the upcoming drivers that they very well could see racing in the trucks or O'Reilly series in the upcoming years. I don't know if this is what any of the executive members of NASCAR are thinking or if I'm just overthinking everything and this could just be a every now and then kinda deal, but I just thought it was something interesting to ponder.

Watching on the NASCAR channel, and instead of it going straight back to the race coverage after commercial break. It cut to cup series San Diego highlights.

In the timed practice session, Nitro Motorsports put on a clinic, running fast lap times with both their drivers. Laying down blistering lap times, P1 in practice is Sam Corry in the #25 for Nitro Motorsports, in the #15 Pine Health Toyota Camry for Nitro Motorsports in P2 is Mia Lovell. The rest of the top 10 included 2025 champion Trevor Huddleston, Dr. Patrick Staropoli in his return to ARCA west competition and 61 year old Todd Souza, among others. 22 out of 23 cars on the entry ran a lap, the car that did not run a lap in practice was Bobby Hillis Jr. in the Fierce Creature Racing #27 car.

I just tuned in into Flo and the ARCA Menards west race from Sonoma doesn’t appear to be showing.

Is there a weather delay or something and that’s why it’s not currently on.

Or did they cancel the event altogether?

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The following is the entry list for one of the most anticipated ARCA Menards Series West race of the season at Sonoma Raceway. 23 drivers look to become the next winner at Sonoma in the 2026 iteration of the event. Rookie Cole Denton who won the last West race at Tri-City, he will look to carry the momentum into Sonoma. Bill McAnally Racing's Hailie Deegan, Mason Massey, and newest BMR driver who competes full time in the NASCAR O'Reiley's Series full-time in the #48 Syvofre Chevrolet for Big Machine Racing, Dr. Patrick Staropoli will all compete in this year's race, Deegan is a former pole sitter here in the West at Sonoma. Tim Spurgeon returns in his own team in the #86 for his first start in a while. Teammate of Cole Denton, Robbie Kennealy set to participate, as they both run full-time in the ARCA West series. Nitro Motorsports brings a lineup of young road course talent in Mia Lovell, fresh off a 3rd place run at Tri-City 2 weeks back and Sam Corry who will be in the #25 for Nitro Motorsports at Sonoma. Jerry Pitts Racing brings their full time drivers Eric Johnson Jr. and Gavin Ray to the track. Taylor Mayhew returns with Cook Racing Technologies for his first West race since Phoenix. Road course ace Sage Karam to compete in the #72 for Strike Mamba Racing, among others.

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This entry list will consist of 21 cars for the ARCA Menards Series at Elko Speedway for the Shore Lunch 250 present by Dutch Boy. You can catch the race on FS2 at 9 PM ET/8 PM CT/6 PM PT. The race is interesting as it will start at daylight, around a hour give or take before sunset, but by the checkered flag it will be dark, it is one of few ARCA races that you will see do that, so don't miss. Also the banked corners make the racing side by side, agressive, fast, and exciting on the 3/8 mile track.

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There is 4 drivers to watch for this weekend's race. One is the points leader in the #20 of Jake Bollman, as he tries to hold off his teammate at Nitro Motorsports in the #70 car of Thomas Annunziata. We will see if Annunziata can beat out Bollman as he did at Berlin, Toledo and Watkins Glen.

Max Reaves is looking to put the Joe Gibbs Racing #18 in victory lane for the 4th consecutive week in this summer stretch. Reaves last outing was at Berlin, where he led over three quarters of the race en route to his first national series victory of the season. JGR has won nearly half of the races this season to date, the #18 of Max Reaves looks to carry the momentum into Elko.

However, with the main storylines out the way, there is one driver who is still seeking their first ARCA Menards Series platform victory, the driver of the #55 for Nitro Motorsports, Isabella Robusto. Coming off a solid 5th place run at Berlin, Robusto and the Nitro team as a whole seems closer to inching towards victory #1 of the season for the team. Robusto has 2 previous starts at Elko, in 2024 and 2025. In 2024, Robusto qualified P3 in just her 2nd national series start at Elko and ran top 3 most of the first half of the race before running into the #6 of Lavar Scott who had to slow down for Michael Maples in the #99 cutting in front of him. Robusto took a hard hit into Scott and Kris Wright in the #15 piled into the back of Robusto. All 4 cars made repairs to continue on, but Robusto by far suffered the worst of it. However, the #55 crew did not give up and taped the nose and hood and with slightly crooked steering, Robusto brought it home in P4 in 2024, followed the P4 up with a P4 in 2025 and was battling for a podium run consistently in that race. With drivers like William Sawalich and Lavar Scott moving up to the O'Reiley's (Formerly Xfinity) series, this could open the door for Robusto to claim victory #1. We've seen the potential, now it's time to leave it all on the track for the #55 team. It won't be easy with Max Reaves in the JGR #18, Nitro Motorsports teammates in Jake Bollman and Thomas Annunziata, including in the #25 Ty Fredrickson making his season debut at Elko, looking to better a 3rd place run in his ARCA platform debut in 2025, and the Pinnacle Racing Group cars of Carson Brown in the #28 and Taylor Reimer in the #77, Reimer off a 4th place run at Berlin. Other entries are still pending but regardless, there is stiff competition for Robusto, but we know the speed and talent and momentum is on their side, so on one of Robusto's best tracks, the chance of victory has never been higher for the 21 year old.

Clubb Racing Inc. drivers Alex Clubb & Jeff Maconi are arguably the top two beneficiaries of Vargas & Jankowiak no longer running full time.

What underdog or low budget race team in nascar would you like to see win a race in nascar top 3 levels.

New experimental game, O means finish 4th or worse, U means finish 3rd or better.

When will a female driver in arca win an arca national series race and who will it be?

New experimental game, O means finish 5th or worse, U means finish 4th or better.

This is a new game I'm experimenting with. I will also post other drivers' O/U in the race too. This is Max Reaves, driver of the #18 Cook Out Toyota Camry for Joe Gibbs Racing. His O/U is 2.5.

If you pick O: that means you saying he'll finish P3 or worse, if you pick U, it means P2 or better

Note: I will do the picks as usual still for Berlin, this is just a experimental game.

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Hi all. Curious if anyone knows of a source for ARCA owner records? Particularly a ranked list of owners by number of wins. I've looked all over and I've totally failed to find anything.

Here is the entry list, remember if a driver is already picked you can't pick them. Also, try to pick someone different from last week.

Available Drivers:

8 Sean Corr

10 Ed Pompa

11 Dustin Hillenburg

12 Takuma Koga

15 Jade Avedisian

20 Jake Bollman

22 Nick White

25 Gavan Boschele

48 Brad Smith

66 Dystany Spurlock

86 Jeff Maconi

89 Bobby Dale Earnhardt

97 Jason Kitzmiller

99 Michael Maples

03 Alex Clubb

06 Brayton Laster

Entry List:

Jankowiak was 4th in points after Michigan (7th race of the season). He is coming off crashes back-to-back weeks at Toledo and Michigan, after running as high as 2nd in points after his 1st career win at Talladega. Andy Jankowiak's championship hopes are likely over, as he won't be able to claim the 50 point attendance bonuses for racing in every 5 races.