Brenden “Butterbean” Queen Racing Photo
ARCA Menards Series at Kansas Speedway: Tide 150 Post-race Notes
* Brenden “Butterbean” Queen (No. 28 BestRepair.net Chevrolet)
scored his second career ARCA Menards Series win and his second of 2025
with a dominant victory in Friday’s Tide 150 at Kansas Speedway. Queen
led 72 of the race’s 105 laps and held off runner-up William Sawalich
(No. 18 Starkey Toyota) on a trio of late-race restarts, including one
on the final lap to win. Queen also won the season opener at Daytona
International Speedway.
* Sawalich led for 29 laps on his way to his second runner-up finish of
the season. Sawalich has 13 wins, 26 top-five finishes, and 28 top-10
finishes in 30 career ARCA Menards Series starts.
* Mason Mitchell (No. 25 Pro-Seed USA Toyota) finished third in his
first ARCA Menards Series start of the season. The 2014 series champion
is planning additional starts this season at Iowa Speedway and the fall
race at Kansas Speedway, with others potentially to be added.
* Talladega winner Lawless Alan (No. 20 AUTOChargeIt Toyota) continued
his hot streak by picking up his first career General Tire Pole Award in
qualifying. Alan ran in the top five throughout the race but lost a spot
to Mitchell on the final lap to settle for fourth.
* Lavar Scott (No. 6 Max Siegel Inc. Chevrolet) entered the Tide 150 as
the ARCA Menards Series championship points leader. Scott finished
fifth, his third career top-five finish in four starts at Kansas
Speedway.
* Queen has reassumed the ARCA Menards Series championship points lead,
by a single point over Alan and Scott, who are now tied for second.
* Jason Kitzmiller (No. 97 A.L.L. Construction Chevrolet) scored his
third top-ten finish in four 2024 starts with a solid seventh-place
effort. Kitzmiller is now unofficially fourth in the ARCA Menards Series
championship standings; his son Isaac leads the ARCA Menards Series East
standings.
* Lanie Buice (No. 2 Max Siegel Inc. Chevrolet) finished eighth in her
ARCA Menards Series debut. She is the 52nd female driver to make at
least one series start and the 30th to score at least one top-ten
finish.
* There were four cautions for a total of 22 laps; the average speed
was 117.221 miles per hour. Queen’s margin of victory was 0.275
seconds.
* The next race for the ARCA Menards Series is the General Tire 150 at
Charlotte Motor Speedway on Friday, May 23. The race will be televised
live on FS1 starting at 6 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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