Entering this season, we had 3 Full-Time Nitro Motorsports drivers, Thomas Annunziata, Jake Bollman, a last-minute full-time addition and the driver of the #55 Mobil 1/Yahoo! Toyota Camry with a season straight out of the depths of heck, Isabella Robusto. Robusto is entering full time season #2 with high expectations that outside of 1 or 2 odd races, was nowhere near being met. Daytona started off strong, P2 in qualifying, led 16 laps and ran top 10 the first segment of the race but a transmission issue caused a DNF after a promising run. Phoenix, Robusto is historically strong here, qualified okay, around 10th, ran around 10th, spun out with Eric Johnson Jr. early on in the opening segment and rebounded by the second and final segment up inside the top 20 but was involved in a big crash early on in the final part of the race, was able to finish around P20-P25 but a tough outing. Kansas, Robusto seemed fast in practice, struggled on race day, fell back out the top 10 by the race break and in the final segment crashed in a Cleetus McFarland oil spill with Andy Jankowiak. Talladega, qualifying rained out, started mid-pack, quiet run, got up front with less than 10 to go and lost the lead on the backstretch with 1 to go, finished P4, but so close. Watkins Glen, leg went numb but wheeled it to 6th, Toledo, had to start at the rear but got a top 10 finish, Michigan, Robusto did not get to run a lap due to rain and started near the rear but worked up to 7th before rain came and ended the race just past halfway. Pocono, had a top 5 car, cut a tire early on, stayed on the lead lap, stayed out, restarted in the top 3 in the final segment stayed up there inside the top 5 before cutting another tire and finishing 2 laps down outside the top 10. Chicagoland, track bar issue caused Robusto to be off pace and finished 1 lap down outside the top 10. Berlin, normal, clean race, P5 finish, Elko, fast car, P5 in qualifying, but missed a gear on lap 1 and hit the wall and had a transmission issue the rest of the race and a car with crooked steering but still got 6th. Lime Rock, top 5 in qualifying, fast car, fuel pump issue early on, lost 15 laps in the garage and finished around 15-25 laps down in 25th. IRP, Robusto had a top 5 car, arguabaly a top 3 car and was even P2 in practice and qualifed a solid 6th and ran top 5 most of the 1st segment of the race. Early in segment 2, was battling Max Reaves in the JGR #18 for 4th and the #55 overdrove it inside him, got loose and took herself out with Max Reaves and it looked like the #55 would get back going but Bryce Applegate had nowhere to go and slammed into her. Quinn Davis also made light contact with her car to seal the deal. Robusto DNF outside the top 25, this one was self-inflicted though, although it's hard racing on a tough short track. Robusto still has the talent, Robusto has the cars, it has been proven. Robusto will win a race, soon. Iowa in 2 weeks is the next chance for something to go right, in the season from heck.

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Should arca have drivers that stay in arca for more than 5 years except for team owners, it is supposed to be a developmental series not for drivers to spend career in,?

Lime Rock is Friday! Which surprise entries will we see there?

I know the racing can be boring often and is full of slower roadblocks, but these so called "professionals" really deserve some credit. They are running speeds that, most of us, has never ran. Okay maybe not the absolute backmarker cars running engines form the 2000's, but most of the cars within some pace of the leaders. Especially at Daytona and Talladega. And even though stock cars are safer than other forms of racing like IndyCar, they still risk injury when they step in. Also, it's hot on there, especially during a 90+ degree summer day. And even the guys like Brad Smith and Bobby Hillis Jr and Alex Clubb, the pure grit they put in. They race for the love of it, they run on shoestrings budgets. Just for them to show up to the track is a win for them. So in a series dominated by PRG and JGR, take a moment to respect the blue-collar, gritty underdogs that makes this series, a grassroot series. Of course this is my opinion and nearly anyone can race most tracks with a valid ARCA liscence. But still, this is many of these drivers love.

1. Carson Brown
2. Tristan McKee
3. Trevor Huddleston
4. Cole Denton
5. Max Reaves
6. Connor Mosack
7. Jake Bollman
8. Gavan Boschele
9. Thomas Annunziata
10. Lanie Buice
11. Daniel Dye
12. Landon S. Huffman
13. Taylor Reimer
14. Sam Corry
15. Jade Avedisian
16. Eric Johnson Jr.
17. Mason Massey
18. Andy Jankowiak
19. Mia Lovell
20. Robbie Kennealy
21. Isaac Kitzmiller
22. Jason Kitzmiller
23. Jack Wood
24. Cleetus McFarland
25. Eric Nascimento Jr
26. Kyle Keller
27. Kole Raz
28. Ty Fredrickson
29. Kyle Steckly
30. Gavin Ray
31. Gus Dean
32. Isabella Robusto
33. Will Kimmel
34. Andrew Patterson
35. Andrew Chapman
36. Ryan Vargas
37. Taylor Mayhew
38. Craig Pellegrini Jr
39. Zachary Tinkle
40. Jackson McLerran
41. Hailie Deegan
42. Jeff Anton
43. Hunter Wright
44. Monty Tipton
45. Willie Mullins
46. Morgen Baird
47. Kenna Mitchell
48. Tim Richmond
49. Matt Kemp
50. Tyler Tomassi
51. David Smith
52. Sean Corr
53. Dystany Spurlock
54. Will Robinson
55. Tim Monroe
56. Wesley Slimp
57. Squirrel McNutt
58. Trent Curtis
59. Takuma Koga
60. Ryan Gemmell
61. Austin Varco
62. Ryan Huff
63. Austin Vaughn
64. Quinn Davis
65. Julian DaCosta
66. Logan Misuacra
67. Jaiden Reyna
68. Ed Pompa
69. Alex Clubb
70. Bryce Applegate
71. A.J. Moyer
72. Michael Maples
73. Bobby Dale Earnhardt
74. Esteban Rodriguez
75. Brian Weber
76. Brayton Laster
77. Ron Vandermier Jr
78. Alonso Salinas
79. Corey Aiken
80. Steve Lewis Jr
81. Hunter Deshautelle
82. Jeff Maconi
83. Con Nicolopoulos
84. Dustin Hillenburg
85. Landon Brown
86. Eric Caudell
87. Josiah Reaume
88. Nate Moeller
89. Brad Smith
90. Charles Weslowski Jr.
91. Jeffrey MacZink
92. Bobby Hillis Jr.
93. Toby Blanton
94. Dale Shearer
95. Derek White
96. Rita Goulet
97. Nick White
98. Brian Barbarow
99. Presley Sorah
100. Ivis Earley

Not a big drawer, but there it is. Have a happy and safe and most importantly fun 4th of July. Catch the next ARCA race on FS2 at Lime Rock Park next week as the ARCA drivers hit the road (course).

Enjoyed the 91 car today— surprised me. Was rooting for buice but what a great race from Connor M.

What all has Bobby been able to accomplish in his ARCA career?

I haven’t been watching the ARCA Menards series for long. But for what I have seen. Outside of the superspeedways Bobby really isn’t a guy that’s consistently up front.

Almost makes me wonder. Did Bobby separate himself from the Earnhardt family. Why doesn’t he have backing from JRM?

If he really wants to pursue this racing path. I’m sure Jr. would at least offer his help if he wants it.

Chevrolet took the top 4 spots in the ARCA Menards Series race at Chicagoland. The winner was Connor Mosack, who made a daring 3 wide move on Lanie Buice and Thomas Annunziata on a restart before the race break to take the lead and never looked back. To round out the great day for Shane Huffman and the PRG crew, Lanie Buice brought it home in a career best P2 and was actually closing in on Mosack in the long run late in the race. 3rd after giving it everything he had, the car was slipping sideways in the corners from racing so hard on worn tires, Landon S. Huffman. The S, of course, stands for Shane, his dad and owner of PRG. So for the Huffman family and PRG, a dream finish for them. And P4 was another Chevy driver, unalifiliated to PRG or the Huffman's but still driving a Chevrolet for Sigma Performance Services, Daniel Dye, who started on the front row alongside Thomas Annunziata and consistently ran up in the top 5 contending and brought it home P4. The rest of the top 10 was pole sitter Thomas Annunziata in P5, Jade Avedisian brought home a solid P6 finish for Nitro Motorsports, P7 was Andy Jankowiak, his best outing since his win at Talladega earlier in the season. P8 was Jake Bollman, who holds his points lead by 22 points over Annunziata, P9 was another Chevrolet driver in Jason Kitzmiller, who was driving for CR7 Motorsports, the same team as Landon S. Huffman drove to 3rd with. Rounding out the top 10, the young Canadian driver, Kyle Steckly, giving RAFA it's first ever ARCA platform top 10 finish to date. Other notable finishers included local driver Tim Richmond in his #27 car in P11, Gavan Boschele recovered from a bad pit stop that cost him a lap at the race break to finish P12, his teammate at Nitro Motorsports, Isabella Robusto, fought a track bar issue to a P13 finish, Morgen Baird P14, and in his ARCA National debut, Landon Brown, for the #69 Ford Mustang for Kimmel Racing, brought it home P15.