Music City 150 at Nashville Fairgrounds Speedway – Photo Credit: Austin Anthony/ARCA Racing
Max Reaves (No. 18 Cook Out Toyota) dominated the Music City 150 at
Nashville Fairgrounds Speedway, leading 147 of the race’s 150 laps on
his way to victory. Reaves started from the General Tire Pole after rain
forced qualifying to be canceled on Saturday and became just the third
driver in ARCA Menards Series East history to win in his first two
career series starts, joining Austin Cindric (VIR and Watkins Glen,
2016) and Will Rodgers (New Jersey Motorsports Park and Watkins Glen,
2017). Reaves’ previous win came in the season opener at Five Flags
Speedway. Rodgers is the only driver to win in his first three career
series starts.
* Tyler Reif (No. 23 Sigma Performance Services / Vegas Fastener
Manufacturing Chevrolet) finished second to score his best career ARCA
Menards Series East finish and his second top-five finish of the season.
He finished third in the season opener at Five Flags Speedway. Reif was
the only other driver to lead a lap; he led three laps, stealing the
lead away from Reaves on the first restart of the race at lap 20.
* Hunter Wright (No. 95 Visit Wilco / Cedar City RV Toyota) finished a
career-best third. Wright’s finish was also a career-best for team
owner Mark Noble, whose MAN Motorsports team is based in nearby
Watertown, Tennessee. Wright did double duty on Sunday, winning the
100-lap Pro Late Model feature that ran immediately after the Music City
150. MAN Motorsports had a terrific day, placing two drivers in the top
ten as Jackson McLerran (No. 96 Firemark Property Management / ARYLCO
Toyota) finished sixth.
* Isaac Kitzmiller (No. 79 A.L.L. Construction Chevrolet) joined the
parade of drivers who set a career-best finish in fourth. Kitzmiller is
the only driver to finish in the top ten in all three ARCA Menards
Series East races so far in 2025. He still leads the ARCA Menards Series
East championship standings, now by six over Tyler Reif.
* Zachary Tinkle (No. 11 Scouting America / Fast Track Racing Toyota)
started on the front row for the first time in his career after
qualifying was canceled by rain on Saturday. Tinkle parlayed that track
position into a solid run, never dropping out of the top five and
finishing fifth, his first top-five finish of the season and first since
he also finished fifth at Flat Rock Speedway last May.
* Takuma Kogo (No. 12 Macnica Yit Ikedo / CKB Toyota) finished seventh,
his first career ARCA Menards Series East top-ten finish. Koga, who
commutes from his home in Nagoya, Japan to compete in the United States,
has 125 career ARCA Menards Series West starts with 28 career top-ten
finishes.
* Becca Monopoli (No. 85 Orlando Health Ford) and Quinn Davis (No. 31
Hepaws Garage Toyota) finished eighth and ninth respectively, marking
the first time that two female drivers finished among the top ten in an
ARCA Menards Series East race since Logan Misuraca and Stephanie Moyer
finished seventh and ninth respectively in the 2022 season opener at New
Smyrna Speedway.
* Nate Moeller (No. 06 Wayne Peterson Racing Toyota) finished tenth,
his career ARCA Menards Series platform top-ten finish.
* Reaves’ margin of victory was 7.156 seconds.
* The average speed was 80.520 miles per hour. The race was slowed
three times by caution for a total of 15 laps.
* The next race for the ARCA Menards Series East is Dutch Boy 150 at
Flat Rock Speedway on Saturday, May 17. The race will be streamed live
on FloRacing starting at 7:30 pm ET. Complete event information,
including live timing and scoring data for all on-track activity and
live race audio, will be available at ARCARacing.com. Up-to-the-minute
updates are available by following @ARCA_Racing on X (formerly known as
Twitter).
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