ARCA Menards Series West at Shasta Speedway: Shasta 150 Pre-race Notes 

  • The Shasta 150 will be the seventh race of the 12-race 2023 ARCA Menards Series West season.
  • The last time the ARCA Menards Series West raced at Shasta Speedway was in 2015, a race won by Chris Eggleston.
  • There have been 14 previous ARCA Menards Series West races at Shasta Speedway, dating to the first in April 1967 won by Scotty Cain. Other winners include Bill Schmitt (1976), Jim Walker (1977), Jimmy Insolo (1978, twice), Schmitt (1979), Jim Robinson (1981), Ron Eaton (1982), Robinson (1983), Derrike Cope (1984), Robinson (1985), Bill Sedgwick (1922), Rick Carelli (1993), and Eggleston (2015).
  • The race in 2015 was the only one to be held on the track’s current 0.375-mile layout. The previous races were all held on the former 0.333-mile layout.
  • Landen Lewis enters the Shasta 150 with a 14-point lead over Sean Hingorani in the ARCA Menards Series West championship standings.
  • Previous ARCA Menards Series West winners in 2023 include Tyler Reif (Phoenix), Hingorani (Irwindale, Kern Co.), Lewis (Portland), Cole Custer (Sonoma), and Trevor Huddleston (Irwindale).
  • Reigning ARCA Menards Series West champion Jake Drew will make his return to West competition in the No. 41 Lowden-Jackson Motorsports Ford, replacing Phoenix winner Tyler Reif who moves over to the No. 13 Central Coast Racing Ford. Team owner/driver Todd Souza will pilot a second CCR entry. 
  • Lewis leads the full-time West drivers with an average finish of 5.83 in the first six races of the season. Bounty Rookie Challenge contender Bradley Erickson sits second with a 7.00 average finish. Two-time 2023 winner Sean Hingorani is third with a 7.83 average finish.
  • Lewis has led laps in each of the six races so far in 2023, leading a total of 222 so far. Trevor Huddleston is second in the laps led category with 135, just ahead of Hingorani who has led 127 laps.
  • Lewis is the only driver to complete all 723 possible competition laps after six races. Tyler Ref is second with 720 laps, while his older brother Tanner sits third at 718 laps completed.
  • The track record for the most cautions is 8, set in 1993, while the record for the fewest cautions is 0 in 1976 and 1977. The most laps run under caution, 47, was also set in 1993.
  • David Mayhew holds the track qualifying record, set in 2015, at 85.050 miles per hour. Chris Eggleston holds the race record average speed on the 0.375-mile layout at 57.990 miles per hour.
  • Should the race need to be extended into overtime, there will be unlimited attempts at a two-lap “green-white-checkered” finish. Should the caution flag be displayed after the white flag is displayed, there will be unlimited attempts at a one-lap “green and white together” finish.

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