Late restart at Salem propels Brenden Queen to 7th ARCA win of 2025

ARCA Menards Series at Salem Speedway: Kentuckiana Ford Dealers ARCA 200 Post-race Notes

* Brenden Queen (No. 28 BestRepair.net Chevrolet) scored his seventh ARCA Menards Series victory of the season in Saturday’s Kentuckiana Ford Dealers ARCA 200 at Salem Speedway. Queen unofficially extended his lead in the series championship standings to 64 points over fourth-place finisher Lavar Scott (No. 6 Max Siegel Inc. Chevrolet) with two races remaining. * Andrew Patterson (No. 70 SCS Gearbox / WinSupply Toyota) finished second in his first start with Nitro Motorsports; he bettered his career-best finish, sixth, set earlier this season at Charlotte Motor Speedway. * Leland Honeyman, Jr. (No. 20 DPR Construction Toyota) finished third in his second start of the season for Venturini Motorsports. Honeyman also bettered his career-best finish, fourth, set last Thursday at Bristol Motor Speedway. * Scott took the lead from Max Reaves (No. 18 Cook Out Toyota) with 88 laps to go and extended his lead after the second of two five-minute race breaks at lap 125. Reaves would bring out the third and final caution of the day with 28 laps to go when he scrubbed the wall in turns three and four, leading to an 18th-place finish. Queen was able to beat Scott into turn one on the ensuing restart and led the rest of the way. * Isabella Robusto (No. 55 Mobil 1 Toyota) rebounded from a 27th-place finish last Thursday at Bristol with a fifth-place finish at Salem, her eighth top-five finish of the season. * Mason Mitchell (No. 25 Pro-Seed USA Toyota) finished sixth in his first start at Salem Speedway since he finished second in his 2014 championship season. * Local favorites Will Kimmel (No. 69 Abtech Electrical / Weddington Custom Homes Ford) and Conner Popplewell (No. 95 Red Ball Recycling / Green Tree Real Estate Toyota) spent much of the night running nose to tail, finishing the evening in seventh and eighth respectively. * Tony Cosentino (No. 11 Harkey Heating & Air Conditioning Ford) finished ninth, his third top-ten finish of the season. * Ryan Vargas (No. 67 Michael Maples Motorsports Chevrolet) finished tenth, matching his career-best series finish set earlier this season at Kansas Speedway. * Reaves won the General Tire Pole Award earlier in the afternoon, his second of the season; he also started from the front of the field at Madison International Speedway in August. It is the fourth General Tire Pole Award earned in qualifying in 2025 for the Joe Gibbs Racing No. 18 team: (Brent Crews, Iowa Speedway; Reaves, Madison International Speedway; Crews, Bristol Motor Speedway). * The next race for the ARCA Menards Series is the Reese’s 150 at Kansas Speedway; the race will be televised live on FS1 starting at 8 pm ET on Friday, September 26. Live timing & scoring data and live race audio will be available at ARCARacing.com; the race will also be broadcast on select affiliates of the MRN Radio Network nationwide and

on MRN.com.