ARCA Menards Series / ARCA Menards Series East at Iowa Speedway
THE RACE: Atlas 150
THE PLACE: Iowa Speedway
THE DATE: Friday, August 1, 2025
THE TIME: 7:00 pm ET / 6:00 pm CT
TV: FS1, Live
RADIO: MRN Radio, Live
- For the third consecutive week, the ARCA Menards Series and ARCA Menards Series East will compete together in a full-points combination event, the Atlas 150 at Iowa Speedway. The race will pay full points to both series, and the winner will be credited with a victory in both series.
- The race will be the 18th for the ARCA Menards Series at Iowa Speedway and the 22nd for the ARCA Menards Series East.
- Brent Crews (No. 18 JBL Toyota) enters the Atlas 150 in search of his third ARCA Menards Series victory of the season. He won earlier this season at Phoenix Raceway in combination with the ARCA Menards Series West and last week at Lucas Oil Indianapolis Raceway Park in combination with the ARCA Menards Series East.
- Crews’ win at Lucas Oil Raceway Park was his fourth career ARCA Menards Series win, and his first platform victory on a track that was not one mile in length. His previous wins came at the Illinois State Fairgrounds, DuQuoin State Fairgrounds, Phoenix Raceway, and Rockingham Speedway.
- Brenden “Butterbean” Queen (No. 28 BestRepair.net Chevrolet) finished third last week at Lucas Oil Indianapolis Raceway Park to maintain a 16-point lead in the ARCA Menards Series championship standings. The 2024 CARS Tour Late Model Stock Car champion has won four races so far in 2025, all on tracks one-mile in length or longer: Daytona International Speedway, Kansas Speedway, Michigan International Speedway, and Dover Motor Speedway. Queen’s team, Pinnacle Racing Group, has won at Iowa Speedway in each of the last two years (Luke Fenhaus, 2023, Connor Zilisch, 2024).
- Sixteen-year-old Isaac Kitzmiller (No. 79 A.L.L. Construction Chevrolet) doubled his lead in the ARCA Menards Series East championship standings to 14 points over Tyler Reif (No. 23 Vegas Fastener / Sigma Performance Services Chevrolet) with a seventh-place finish at IRP. Kitzmiller leads all drivers who have started each of the six previous ARCA Menards Series East races this season with a 5.5 average finish and he is the only driver to finish in the top ten in every race.
- Rev Racing will field two drivers in the Atlas 150. Full-season championship contender Lavar Scott (No. 6 Max Siegel Inc. Chevrolet) will be joined by Mexico City’s Eloy Falcon (No. 2 Max Siegel Inc. Chevrolet). Scott leads the series in top ten finishes with nine in eleven starts. Falcon impressed in his ARCA Menards Series East debut, racing to a third-place finish at Rockingham Speedway. He was tenth in his most recent ARCA Menards Series start at Michigan.
- Isabella Robusto (No. 55 Mobil 1 Toyota) will be looking to continue her hot summer streak at Iowa Speedway. After a tough start to the season that saw the Fort Mill, South Carolina native record four DNFs in the first five races of the year, Robusto has racked up six straight top ten finishes including back-to-back top-five finishes, third at Dover and fourth at IRP.
- Mason Mitchell (No. 25 Pro-Seed USA Toyota) returns for his fourth start of the season. The 2014 ARCA Menards Series champion, a native of nearby West Des Moines, Iowa, won at Iowa Speedway in 2015. He finished fourth at Iowa last season in his first series start in nearly six years.
- Kris Wright (No. 15 Warranty Solutions Toyota) will make his first ARCA Menards Series start of the season in a fourth Venturini Motorsports entry.
- Tim Richmond (No. 27 Immigration Law Center Toyota) will make his first ARCA Menards Series start since May at Charlotte Motor Speedway.
- Steven Wallace holds the ARCA Menards Series track qualifying record at Iowa Speedway, set in 2006, at 22.932 seconds/137.357 miles per hour.
- Tom Hessert III holds the ARCA Menards Series track race record at Iowa Speedway, set in 2010, at 105.634 miles per hour.
- The Atlas 150 will be televised live on FS1 starting at 7:00 pm ET / 6 pm CT on Friday, August 1. The race will also be broadcast live on select affiliates of the MRN Radio network nationwide as well as streamed on MRN.com. 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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