ARCA Menards Series / ARCA Menards Series East at Bristol Motor Speedway
THE RACE: Bush’s Beans 200
THE PLACE: Bristol Motor Speedway, Bristol, Tenn.
THE DATE: Thursday, September 11, 2025
THE TIME: 5:30 pm ET
BROADCAST: FS1, Live
- The ARCA Menards Series and ARCA Menards Series East will race in a combined event that offers full championship points for both series for the fourth and final time in 2025. The winning driver will be credited with a victory in both series.
- Brenden Queen (No. 28 BestRepair.net Chevrolet) leads the ARCA Menards Series standings by 42 points over Lavar Scott (No. 6 Max Siegel Inc. Chevrolet) and 61 points over Lawless Alan (No. 20 AUTOParkIt Toyota) with four races remaining in the ARCA Menards Series season.
- Queen has scored a total of 39 bonus points this season through six race wins, leading laps in eleven races, and earning four General Tire Pole Awards. Alan has scored 11 bonus points through one race win, leading at least one lap in five races and winning one General Tire Pole Award, while Scott has tallied three bonus points for leading at least one lap in three races.
Isaac Kitzmiller (No. 79 A.L.L. Construction / Carter CAT Chevrolet) leads the ARCA Menards Series East championship standings by 19 points over Tyler Reif (No. 23 Vegas Fastener / Sigma Performance Services Chevrolet) entering the final East race of the season. If Kitzmiller finishes 13th or better without scoring any bonus points, he will win the title regardless of what Reif does. Reif must finish at least 19 positions ahead of Kitzmiller to win the championship, and would win any tie breakers based on top-five finishes should they end with the same points total. Zachary Tinkle (No. 11 Racing for Rescues Toyota) also has a mathematical chance to win the championship but needs to finish 31 positions ahead of Kitzmiller and 12 positions ahead of Reif to win.- Brent Crews (No. 18 Mobil 1 Toyota) will be looking for his seventh victory across the ARCA Menards Series platform in 2025. He has ARCA Menards Series wins at Phoenix Raceway, a combination race with the ARCA Menards Series West, Lucas Oil Indianapolis Raceway Park, a combination race with the ARCA Menards Series East, and at the Illinois State Fairgrounds. He also won the ARCA Menards Series East race at Rockingham Speedway.
- Joe Gibbs Racing will lock up its seventh ARCA Menards Series East Owners Championship if Crews finishes 29th or better.
- Five of the eight drivers who have won ARCA Menards Series races in 2025 are entered. Queen, Crews, and Alan will also be joined by road course winners Thomas Annunziata (No. 70 Bayshore Mortgage Toyota) and Tristan McKee (No. 82 Gainbridge Chevrolet), who won at Lime Rock Park and Watkins Glen International respectively. Other 2025 winners Austin Green (Charlotte), Treyten Lapcevich (Berlin Raceway) and Max Reaves (Elko Speedway and Madison International Speedway) are not entered.
- Rev Racing will field three entries at Bristol; in addition to the team’s full-season effort for Lavar Scott, they will field entries for Lanie Buice (No. 2 Max Siegel Inc. Chevrolet) and Logan Misuraca (No. 9 Clean Harbors Chevrolet).
- Garrett Mitchell (No. 30 Kinetik Ford), known to his fans on YouTube as Cleetus McFarland, will make his fourth start of the season and first since he finished ninth at Charlotte Motor Speedway in May.
- Bobby Dale Earnhardt (No. 31 Main Street Cycle Toyota) will make his first ARCA Menards Series start since 2017 driving for team owner Tim Goulet’s RISE Motorsports. The team finished a season-best seventh last week at the DuQuoin State Fairgrounds with sprint car standout Chase Howard driving. Earnhardt’s best previous finish was 19th at Elko Speedway in 2017.
- Patrick Staropoli (No. 25 SYFOVRE Toyota) will make his fifth start of the season and first since an eighth-place finish at Charlotte. Staropoli finished sixth in the ARCA Menards Series East race at Bristol in 2014.
- Andy Jankowiak (No. 73 DAKS Markets / Acacia Energy Toyota) returns for the first time since he finished seventh at Watkins Glen International. Jankowiak has two top-five finishes this season, a fourth at Talladega Superspeedway and fifth at Charlotte.
- Carson Ware (No. 51 Rick Ware Racing Ford) will make his second career ARCA Menards Series start in Thursday’s race; he finished 13th at Kansas Speedway in 2019.
- The Bush’s Beans 200 will be televised live on FS1 starting at 5:30 pm ET on Thursday, September 11. 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).
About ARCA
The Automobile Racing Club of America (ARCA), founded in 1953 by John and Mildred Marcum in Toledo, Ohio, and acquired by NASCAR in April 2018, is the leading grassroots stock car sanctioning body in the United States. Bridging the gap between NASCAR’s top three national touring series and weekly and regional tour racing all across the country, the organization sanctions over 100 races per year in the ARCA Menards Series, ARCA Menards Series East, ARCA Menards Series West, ASA STARS National Tour, ASA CRA Super Series, ASA Midwest Tour, ASA Southern Super Series plus weekly racing at Toledo and Flat Rock Speedways. For more information about ARCA visit http://www.arcaracing.com, or follow ARCA on Facebook (@ARCARacing) and Twitter (@ARCA_Racing).
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