ARCA Menards Series at Watkins Glen International
THE RACE: General Tire 100 at The Glen
THE PLACE: Watkins Glen International, Watkins Glen, NY
THE DATE: Friday, August 8, 2025
THE TIME: 2:00 pm ET
TV: FS2, Live
RADIO: MRN Radio, Live
- The ARCA Menards Series will take to the seven-turn, 2.45-mile Watkins Glen International for its second of two road course races on its 2025 schedule. It will be the series’ 3rd road course all time, and its sixth race at Watkins Glen International.
- Previous ARCA Menards Series winners at Watkins Glen International include John Finger (2001), Corey Heim (2021), Brandon Jones (2022), Jesse Love (2023), and Connor Zilisch (2024).
- Brenden “Butterbean” Queen (No. 28 BestRepair.net Chevrolet) leads the ARCA Menards Series championship standings by 33 points headed into his second-ever road course start. Queen finished fourth at Lime Rock Park in June.
- Queen has five ARCA Menards Series victories this season: Daytona International Speedway, Kansas Speedway, Michigan International Speedway, Dover Motor Speedway, and Iowa Speedway. His team, Pinnacle Racing Group, is the defending race winner at Watkins Glen International.
- Lawless Alan (No. 20 AUTOParkIt Toyota) enters the General Tire 100 at The Glen second in the series standings. He finished third at Lime Rock Park earlier this season, one of five third-place results he’s had so far in 2025. Alan’s best result in nine NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series races on road courses is eleventh at Circuit of the Americas in 2021.
- Lavar Scott (No. 6 Max Siegel Inc. Chevrolet) is third in the standings, 46 points out of the lead. Scott has three career ARCA Menards Series starts on road courses, including a career-best seventh at Lime Rock Park earlier this season. Scott finished ninth at Watkins Glen in 2024.
- Scott has finished fifth a total of six times in 12 races so far in 2025, including each of the last two races at Lucas Oil Indianapolis Raceway Park and Iowa Speedway.
- Tristan McKee (No. 77 Gainbridge Chevrolet) will make his ARCA Menards Series debut in a car owned by Spire Motorsports. McKee turned 15 years of age, the minimum to compete in the ARCA Menards Series, on August 3. He won the Trans Am TA 2 race earlier this season at Watkins Glen International, one of two wins he’s had this season.
- Jason Kitzmiller (No. 97 A.L.L. Construction / Carter CAT Chevrolet) looks to rebound from a disappointing 19th-place finish in his first career ARCA Menards Series road course race at Lime Rock Park in June after an early race accident. Kitzmiller has nine top-ten finishes so far this season, with a season-best of third in the season opener at Daytona International Speedway.
- Isabella Robusto (No. 55 Mobil 1 Toyota) finished tenth at Lime Rock Park in her first ARCA Menards Series road course start. She finished third at Portland International Raceway and sixth at Sonoma Raceway last season in her two ARCA Menards Series West road course starts.
- Four-time NASCAR Whelen Euro Series champion Alon Day (No. 25 JSSI Toyota) will make his second ARCA Menards Series start of the season. Day finished second behind winner Thomas Annunziata at Lime Rock Park in June. Day then raced with the ARCA Menards Series West at Sonoma Raceway where he was in contention to win on the final lap; he ultimately finished third behind race-winner William Sawalich and runner-up Christian Eckes.
- KLAS Motorsports has entered two cars in the General Tire 100 at The Glen, one for the team’s regular driver Andy Jankowiak (No. 73 Whelen Chevrolet) and another for Modified driver Glen Reen (No. 71 New Wave Home Chevrolet). Jankowiak has four previous starts at Watkins Glen with a best finish of seventh in 2023; Reen finished 19th in his only ARCA Menards Series East start at Watkins Glen in 2016.
- Alex Clubb (No. 03 A. Clubb Lawncare Ford) will race in the same car that he raced at Iowa Speedway last Friday. That car was involved in a traffic accident on the way home to their base in Morris, Illinois, when the truck left the road and the trailer ended up on its side with the car and all of the team’s pit equipment inside. Further, the towing company that recovered the trailer on a flatbed hauled it more than 40 miles with it still on its side, doing additional damage to the car and equipment. The team worked three straight days to get the car ready.
- Corey LaJoie holds the ARCA Menards Series track qualifying record at Watkins Glen International, set in 2023, at 73.280 seconds/120.360 miles per hour.
- Connor Zilisch holds the ARCA Menards Series track race record at Watkins Glen International, set in 2024, at 106.673 miles per hour.
- The record for the most cautions in an ARCA Menards Series race at Watkins Glen is 5 in 2022; the record for the most laps under caution is 16 set in 2022 and matched in 2023. The record for the fewest cautions in an ARCA Menards Series race at Watkins Glen is one, set in 2021 and matched in 2024; the record for the fewest laps under caution is 2, set in 2024.
- The General Tire 100 at The Glen will be televised live on FS2 starting at 2 pm ET on Friday, August 8. 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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