2025 ARCA Menards Series
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The 2025 ARCA Menards Series was the 73rd season of the ARCA Menards Series, a stock car racing series sanctioned by NASCAR in the United States. The season began at Daytona International Speedway with the Ride the 'Dente 200 on February 15 and ended with the Owens Corning 200 at Toledo Speedway on October 4.
Andrés Pérez de Lara entered the season as the defending champion, but did not return to defend his title as he moved up to the NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series full-time in 2025, driving for Spire Motorsports and Niece Motorsports.[1][2] At the conclusion of the season finale at Toledo, Brenden Queen of Pinnacle Racing Group won the championship.[3]
Complete schedule
Schedule
The entire schedule was released on September 27, 2024.[144]
Notes
- Lime Rock Park joined the schedule for the first time.
- Madison International Speedway returned the schedule for the first time in 5 years.
Season summary
Round 1: Ride the 'Dente 200
William Sawalich scored the pole after qualifying was cancelled. In the end, Brenden Queen secured his first career ARCA victory and first of the season in a crash-filled race.[147]
Round 2: General Tire 150 (Phoenix)
Brent Crews scored the pole after qualifying was cancelled. In the end, Crews would hold off Brenden Queen in ARCA overtime and secure his third career ARCA victory and first of the season.[148]
Round 3: General Tire 200
William Sawalich was awarded the pole since no qualifying session was run. In the end, Lawless Alan survived last lap chaos and edged out Thad Moffitt to secure his first career ARCA victory and first of the season. Isabella Robusto finished 3rd in this race, marking the highest finish for a female at Talledega.[149]
Round 4: Tide 150
Lawless Alan won the pole. In the end, Brenden Queen secured his second career ARCA victory over Lawless Alan in a 1 lap shootout after leading the most laps, his second of the season.[150]
Round 5: General Tire 150 (Charlotte)
Will Kimmel won the pole, his first since 2017. However Kimmel blew an engine while leading after just 13 laps. On lap 38 coming to the restart, Garrett Mitchell spun the tires on the restart from the front row after staying out and got loose, making contact with Isabella Robusto, causing her to spin up the track, hitting the outside wall hard. Then William Sawalich and others spun around causing a multi-car stackup. In the end, Austin Green led the most laps and secured his first career ARCA victory in his second career start.[151]
Round 6: Henry Ford Health 200
Brenden Queen won the pole. In the end, Queen held off Corey Heim in a tight battle to secure his third career ARCA victory and his third of the season.[152]
Round 7: Berlin ARCA 200
Treyten Lapcevich won the pole and dominated, leading every lap to secure his first career ARCA victory in his first career start.[153]
Round 8: Shore Lunch 250 presented by Dutch Boy
Brenden Queen won the pole and dominated, leading the majority of the laps until Max Reaves came and ended up securing his first career ARCA victory in his second ARCA career start.[154]
Round 9: Lime Rock Park 100
Thomas Annunziata won the pole and dominated, leading every lap to secure his first career ARCA victory in his first career start.[155]
Round 10: General Tire 150 (Dover)
Brenden Queen won the pole and dominated, leading every lap to secure his fourth career ARCA victory, fourth of the season and his first ARCA East victory in his first career East start.[156]
Round 11: LiUNA! 150
Brenden Queen was awarded the pole since no qualifying session was run. In the end, Brent Crews survived Queen to secure his fourth career ARCA victory, his second career ARCA Menards Series East win, and his third win of the season.[157]
Round 12: Atlas 150
Brent Crews won the pole. In the end, Brenden Queen would hold off a hard-charging Crews in the final few laps to earn his fifth career ARCA win, his second career ARCA East win, and his fifth of the season.[158]
Round 13: General Tire 100 at The Glen
Brent Crews won the pole. In the end, Tristan McKee, would take advantage of late-race troubles for the dominant Crews, who was dominating before experiencing battery issues with three laps to go. He was able to continue the race but fell back to finish ninth, last of the lead lap drivers, and held off the field in a one-lap shootout to earn his first career ARCA win in his first career start. He also became the second-youngest driver to win an ARCA race at fifteen years and five days.[159]
Round 14: Allen Crowe 100
Brenden Queen was awarded the pole since no qualifying session was run. Brent Crews was able to take the lead early from Queen, and showed off his dirt racing background by leading the final 83 laps to earn his fifth career ARCA Menards Series win, and his third of the season.[160]
Round 15: Badger 200
Max Reaves won the pole and dominated, leading every lap, securing his second career ARCA victory in Madison's first time on the calendar since 2019.[161]
Round 16: Southern Illinois 100
Lawless Alan won the pole. In a wild race, Brenden Queen would take advantage of a late restart, and led the final 22 laps of the event to earn his sixth career ARCA win.[162] Brent Crews, the dominant driver of the race, was involved in a late race wreck with eight laps to go, ending his chances at sweeping both dirt races. He retired from the race and was credited with a 15th-place finish.
Round 17: Bush's Beans 200
In the final ARCA Menards Series and ARCA Menards Series East combination race of the season, Brent Crews was able to pull off a dominating performance, leading every lap from the pole position to earn his sixth career ARCA win, his third career ARCA East win, and his fifth win of the season. With his win, he clinched the 2025 East Series owner's championship for JGR.[163] For the East Series, Isaac Kitzmiller would win their season's championship.[164]
Round 18: Kentuckiana Ford Dealers ARCA 200
Max Reaves dominated the majority of the event, after leading a race-high 111 laps from the pole position, but lost the lead to Lavar Scott before the second halfway break. Scott led a career-high 66 laps before losing the lead after a late-race caution that took out Reaves. Brenden Queen executed on the final restart and led the final 23 laps to win his seventh win of the season and of his career.[165] Scott suffered damage after hitting the wall, and fell back to finish fourth.[166]
Round 19: Reese's 150
Brenden Queen started on pole and would later take the lead from the dominating Gio Ruggiero, and survived two overtime restarts to earn his eighth career ARCA win, and his second consecutive win.[167] Ruggiero dominated the majority of the race, leading a race-high 74 laps before being passed by Queen with just over 10 laps to go. With this win, he swept the races at Kansas in 2025.
Round 20: Owens Corning 200
Max Reaves started on pole and would dominate, leading all but one lap to secure his third ARCA victory. Besides finishing second-place, Brenden Queen would lock up the 2025 ARCA Menards Series title.