- William Sawalich (No. 18 Starkey/SoundGear Toyota) won Sunday’s Sprecher 150 ARCA Menards Series race at The Milwaukee Mile, his seventh series win of 2024. For the second consecutive race, Sawalich was fastest in practice, earned the General Tire Pole Award in qualifying, and won. Sawalich led 104 of 105 laps last Sunday and the Illinois State Fairgrounds, and matched that dominance at Milwaukee, leading 148 of the race’s 150 laps.
- It was Sawalich’s 11th career ARCA Menards Series win, moving him into a tie for 29th on the all-time series win list with Jack Harrison, Ernie Derr, NASCAR Hall of Fame inductee Fred Lorenzen, and Don White.
- Sawalich’s victory in the Sprecher 150 is also his sixth career ARCA Menards Series East victory and his second of the season.
- Connor Zilisch (No. 28 Silver Hare Development/Chevrolet Performance Chevrolet) finished second, his worst ARCA Menards Series finish in five starts in 2024.
- Zilisch’s second-place finish leaves him with an unofficial 16-point lead over Sawalich entering the ARCA Menards Series East season finale at Bristol Motor Speedway on September 19. Zilisch will need to finish 11th or better regardless of what Sawalich does to earn the 2024 East championship.
- Lavar Scott (No. 6 Max Siegel Inc. Chevrolet) continued his impressive summer run by finishing third. Since the race at Berlin Raceway in June, Scott has only finished outside the top-five once, a 15th-place at Michigan International Speedway due to a mechanical issue.
- Kris Wright (No. 15 FNB Corporation Toyota) finished fourth, the best of the five Venturini Motorsports entries. It was his sixth top-five finish of the season. Wright is third in the ARCA Menards Series championship standings, 66 points out of the lead.
- Lawless Alan (No. 33 AutoParkIt Ford) finished fifth, his first career ARCA Menards Series top-five finish.
- ARCA Menards Series championship points leader Andres Perez (No. 2 Max Siegel Inc. Chevrolet) finished sixth. His lead in the standings now stands at 46 points with five races remaining.
- Dean Thompson (No. 55 Thompson Pipe Group Toyota) finished seventh, his fourth top-ten finish in four ARCA Menards Series starts in 2024.
- Christian Rose (No. 32 West Virginia Department of Tourism Ford) finished eighth, his eighth top-ten of the season.
- Giovanni Ruggiero (No. 20 JBL Audio Toyota) rebounded from a flat right front tire to bring out the first caution flag of the day to finish ninth. Ruggiero remains third in the ARCA Menards Series East standings but has unofficially dropped to 27 points out of the lead with just one race remaining.
- Two-time IndyCar pole winner at The Milwaukee Mile Marco Andretti (No. 17 Group 1001 Chevrolet) finished tenth, his fourth top-ten finish of the season.
- Sawalich set a new track record in qualifying at 29.002 seconds/125.991 miles per hour.
- The race was slowed by caution just 3 times for 16 laps. Sawalich missed out on resetting the track race record by just 37 seconds; he won at an average speed of 99.926 miles per hour, just off Ty Gibbs’s record-setting pace of 100.615 miles per hour set in 2001.
- The No. 18 team has won every ARCA Menards Series race at The Milwaukee Mile since 2021; Ty Gibbs won in 2021, Sammy Smith in 2022, and Sawalich in both 2023 and 2024.
- The next race for the ARCA Menards Series is the Southern Illinois 100 at the DuQuoin State Fairgrounds on Sunday, September 1. The race will be televised live on FS1 and streamed live on FloRacing starting at 8:30 pm ET/7:30 pm CT.
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