Home State… Eric Johnson Jr. will make his Tri-City Raceway debut with the ARCA Menards Series West (AMSW) this weekend. Saturday’s NAPA Auto Care 150 presented by Vic’s Auto Supply powered by PEAK in West Richland, Wash. will be the first event of this season to take place in Johnson Jr.’s home state. He enters his first AMSW start in his home “Evergreen State” seventh in the championship standings
Familiar Ground … Tri-City Raceway last hosted the AMSW back in 2003 when the tour was known as the NASCAR K&N Pro Series West. This Saturday’s NAPA Auto Care 150 will be the first AMSW event since the venue’s reopening in 2021. The La Center, Wash. native is one of the few drivers in the field with experience at the unique half-mile triangle. Johnson Jr. competed in the Apple Cup late model race in April where he finished 11th in a 25-car field.
Season To Date … Just past the midway point for the 2024 season, Johnson Jr. has a total of 269 points, and sits seventh in the AMSW standings, 22 markers out of fifth. The rookie driver has three top-10 results this season, the most notable being his career-best seventh-place run at Sonoma Raceway. Tri-City marks the fifth new track Johnson Jr. has visited this season in eight races. He and BMR teammate Jack Wood will are competing in just the second event at Tri-City for the storied organization. BMR’s only prior appearance at Tri-City came in 2003 when Jeff Jefferson drove the No. 16 NAPA Chevrolet to a fifth-place finish.
Tune In … The AMSW return to Tri-City Raceway can be streamed live Saturday night on FloRacing (www.floracing.com) at 10:45 p.m. ET. Stay connected with the No. 19 Pacific Office Automation team by following @BMR_NASCAR on Twitter, @bmrnascar on Instagram, and Bill McAnally Racing on Facebook.
Eric Johnson Jr. Quote:
On The First Half of The Season.:
“I’m really looking forward to getting back to Tri-Cities Raceway this weekend in our No. 19 Pacific Office Automation Chevrolet. We’ve spent much of the year learning new tracks before I could ever worry about speed or balance. This week is luckily a different story as I had the chance to run my late model here in the spring. The Northwest has been itching to have NASCAR back at this place for decades and to be a part of that return is really special. I just can’t thank our partners and BMR enough for the opportunity. Hoping we can thank them with a top-five run on Saturday night.”
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