- Sean Hingorani snatched the lead from General Tire Pole Award winner Trevor Huddleston to lead the final 39 laps to win the Shasta 150. It was Hingorani’s third ARCA Menards Series West win in 2023 and moves him to within just seven points of the leader Landen Lewis in the battle for the series championship.
- Huddleston finished second after starting from the pole and leading 111 laps. Huddleston has now led more laps, 246, than any other ARCA Menards Series West driver in 2023. Huddleston’s runner-up finish was also his 50th career West Series top-ten finish.
- Kole Raz made his ARCA Menards Series West debut driving for long-time West team owner Jerry Pitts. Raz qualified an impressive fifth and finished third.
- Lewis scored his sixth top-five finish, fourth, in seven West starts in 2023. Lewis leads the West series with a 5.5 average finish.
- Eric Nascimento followed his runner-up finish at Irwindale Speedway with his second consecutive top-five finish in fifth.
- Kyle Keller earned his first top-ten finish, sixth, since he also finished sixth at Irwindale Speedway in the second race of the 2023 season.
- Tanner Reif finished seventh, his fifth top-ten finish of the season. Reif was driving for the team, Bill McAnally Racing’s No. 16 team, that won the last time the West series raced at Shasta in 2015 with Chris Eggleston driving.
- Nick Joanides matched his season-best finish, set at Irwindale in July, in eighth.
- Bradley Erickson was challenging for a top-five finish when he spun out while battling for position with Tanner Reif. Erickson dropped to ninth at the finish, but it was his sixth top-ten finish of the season.
- Todd Souza finished tenth in his first start in his team’s second car. Central Coast Racing fielded two cars for the first time, with Phoenix winner Tyler Reif piloting the No. 13 car. Reif qualified third and ran among the top ten most of the night before he was involved in the first caution of the night, dropping him to 14th at the finish.
- Tyler Reif departed the Lowden-Jackson Motorsports team leading into the Shasta 150 and he was replaced by reigning series champion Jake Drew. Drew qualified fourth and spent much of the night in the top five before mechanical issues put him behind the wall with 18 laps remaining, dropping him to 16th at the finish.
- There were just two cautions, both for minor incidents, slowing the race for just 12 laps, allowing for race-winner Sean Hingorani to set a new race record for the West Series at Shasta Speedway at an average speed of 70.508 miles per hour.
- The next race for the ARCA Menards Series West is the NAPA Auto Parts 150 at Evergreen Speedway on Saturday, August 19. The race will be streamed live on FloRacing starting at 9:30 pm ET/6:30 pm PT.
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