- The NAPA Auto Care 150 at Tri-City Raceway is scheduled as the eighth race of 12 that make up the 2024 ARCA Menards Series West season. It will be the tenth ARCA Menards Series West race at Tri-City Raceway in series history and the first since 2003.
- Previous ARCA Menards Series West winners at Tri-City Raceway include Ray Elder (1968, 1970), Jim Cook (1969), Jack McCoy (1972), Roy Smith (1989, 1990), Dirk Stephens (1993), Mike Chase (1994), and Jason Jefferson (2003).
- Former Tri-City Raceway track champion Greg Biffle (No. 23 Sigma Performance Services/GMS Fabrication Chevrolet) will make his first ARCA Menards Series West start since 1996 in the NAPA Auto Care 150. Biffle, the 2000 NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series champion and 2002 NASCAR Xfinity Series champion, will drive for team owner Joe Farre’s Sigma Performance Services team. Biffle, a 19-time NASCAR Cup Series winner and a recent nominee for induction to the NASCAR Hall of Fame, has two previous West starts, both in 1996, with his best finish, fourth, at Altamont Speedway. Sigma Performance Services won the West race at Sonoma Raceway earlier in the season with NASCAR Xfinity Series playoff contender Sam Mayer driving.
- Tyler Reif (No. 13 Central Coast Cabinets Toyota) enters the NAPA Auto Care 150 coming off his second career ARCA Menards Series West win in the series’ most recent race at Shasta Speedway. Reif, who also won the 2023 season opener at Phoenix Raceway in combination with the ARCA Menards Series, leads the series’ championship standings by five points over reigning series champion Sean Hingorani.
- Hingorani (No. 5 Fidelity Capital Toyota) will be looking for his third win of 2024; he swept the Independence Day weekend doubleheader at Irwindale Speedway. Hingorani and Reif both have six top-five finishes in the seven races that have been contested so far in 2024.
- Team owner Bill McAnally is the only entrant to have participated in the most recent West race at Tri-City Raceway in 2003. McAnally’s drivers then, Jeff Jefferson, Brandon Reihl, and Jim Inglebright all finished in the top nine; Jefferson – brother of race winner Jason Jefferson – was fifth, Riehl was sixth, and Inglebright was ninth. Jack Wood (No. 16 NAPA Auto Parts Chevrolet) is the highest Bill McAnally Racing driver in the current series standings in fourth; he finished a career-best second at Irwindale Speedway on July 4.
- The ARCA Menards Series West track qualifying record was set in 1990 and matched in 2003. Bill Sedgwick set the mark at 18.840 seconds/95.541 miles per hour, a time and speed matched to the thousandth of second by Kevin Richards in 2003.
- The ARCA Menards Series West race record at Tri-City Raceway was set in 1972 by Jack McCoy, who covered the 150-lap race distance in 55 minutes even at an average speed of 81.818 miles per hour. That race was slowed by just one caution for eight laps.
- The record for caution flags in an ARCA Menards Series West race at Tri-City Raceway is eleven in a 200-lap race in 1994; the record for most caution laps is 72, also set in a 200-lap race, in 1990.
- There will be a scheduled break at or near lap 75 for teams to pit for tires, fuel, adjustments, and repairs. The teams will have eight tires in the pit box, four for use at the break and four for emergency use. Any tire changes made outside of the break must be approved by ARCA officials.
- Should the race need to be extended into overtime, there will be unlimited attempts at a two-lap “green-white-checkered” finish. If the caution is 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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