Kentucky General Tire Superspeedway Challenge

The General Tire 150 is the fourth round of the General Tire Superspeedway Challenge, comprised of 7 races held on paved ovals greater than 1.5 miles in length.

- A superspeedway championship for the car owners within the overall championship of the ARCA Menards Series 20-race schedule. - Only race points are counted towards a team’s point total, with the bonus points for leading laps or winning the pole disregarded. - Champion crowned at Kansas Speedway on Friday, October 16, 2020 and recognized at annual championship awards banquet.

Pocono Raceway is a superspeedway that many young drivers cut their teeth on in the early stages of their career, owing to the fact that you can start a race at Pocono at 17 years old instead of the usual minimum of 18 years old seen at many other intermediate tracks. One of those 17-year old drivers delivered in the General Tire #AnywhereIsPossible 200 from Pocono as Ty Gibbs picked up his first superspeedway victory while driving the No. 18 Joe Gibbs Racing Toyota owned by his father, Coy Gibbs. Gibbs was joined on the podium by a pair of his fellow young rising stars in the sport, both coincidentally sharing a birthday at the track – Chandler Smith rang in his 18th birthday with a second-place finish for the Billy Venturini-owned No. 20 team, while Sam Mayer celebrated his 17th birthday by finishing third in his Maury Gallagher-backed No. 21 car. The big win for Ty Gibbs pushed his father’s No. 18 team up to third in the General Tire Superspeedway Challenge standings with 120 points thanks to their first superspeedway win of the season. The No. 18 team now lurks right behind the Cathy Venturini-owned No. 25 car in the standings. The No. 25, driven by Daytona winner Michael Self to a fifth-place run at Pocono, maintains second place with 121 points. Drew Dollar, fresh off of a win at Talladega for No. 15 car owner Bill Venturini, came home sixth at Pocono and ensured that the No. 15 maintained its very narrow lead in the standings. The No. 15 now has 122 points on the season, keeping a gap of one point over the No. 25 and just two points over the No. 18 team. The General Tire 150 at Kentucky, the fourth superspeedway race of the 2020 season, will see many of the same players from the Pocono race return as Kentucky too has a minimum age requirement of 17 instead of 18. Pocono winner Ty Gibbs will hit the track in the No. 18 Joe Gibbs Racing Toyota and Sam Mayer will be back in the No. 21 GMS Racing Chevrolet. Bret Holmes, driving the No. 23 Chevrolet owned by his father Stacy Holmes, will enter Kentucky as one of the few drivers in the field with experience at the track, as well as being in a tie for fourth in the General Tire Superspeedway Challenge standings. Holmes finished seventh at Kentucky in 2016 and was knocked out by a mechanical issue at the track in 2017. The Alabama driver will head north to Kentucky with an active streak of nine consecutive top ten finishes at superspeedways dating back to last April. The General Tire Superspeedway Challenge – a championship within a championship The General Tire Superspeedway Challenge is a special series within the greater ARCA Menards Series overall championship. The challenge is comprised of races on the ARCA schedule at paved ovals greater than 1.5 miles in length. The season-long battle began at Daytona in February and will conclude at Kansas in October. Race points only count towards a team’s yearlong tally, with bonus points not counted towards this total. The General Tire Superspeedway Challenge is contested among car owners, rather than drivers, so that a team using multiple drivers has the same chances of winning as a team with a single full-time driver. Last year saw Chad Bryant’s No. 22 Chad Bryant Racing Ford take the General Tire Superspeedway Challenge crown via this method, with three different drivers making starts in the No. 22 car. The effort was anchored by Ty Majeski, now competing in the NASCAR Gander RV & Outdoors Truck Series for Niece Motorsports, as he won three races in just six starts to help seal the title for Bryant. 2020 General Tire Superspeedway Challenge Current Points

DAY TAL POC KEN KAN-I MIC KAN-II TOTAL CAR Owner NAME 15 Bill Venturini 41 43 38 122 25 Cathy Venturini 43 39 39 121 18 Coy Gibbs 37 40 43 120 4 David Gilliland 42 37 37 116 23 Stacy Holmes 35 41 40 116 20 Billy Venturini 22 42 42 106 12 Michelle Hillenburg 38 34 33 105 8 John Corr 40 35 27 102 46 Bo LeMastus 39 38 24 101 69 Bill Kimmel 34 33 34 101 10 Andy Hillenburg 23 32 35 90 22 Chad Bryant 24 29 36 89 17 David Gilliland 28 31 29 88 06 Wayne Peterson 26 27 26 79 11 Andy Hillenburg 25 26 28 79 97 Codie Rohrbaugh 12 36 30 78 48 Brad Smith 13 24 31 68 01 Michelle Hillenburg 15 25 25 65 7 Eric Caudell 27 30 57 0 Wayne Peterson 30 23 53 32 Kevin Cywinski 21 28 49 21 Maury Gallagher 41 41 3 Wayne Hixson 36 36 9 Thomas Praytor 33 33 28 Mike Bursley 32 32 82 John Corr 32 32 87 Chuck Buchanan Jr. 31 31 09 Chris Our 29 29 61 J.J. Pack 20 20 30 Mark Rette 19 19 52 Ken Schrader 18 18 77 Chad Bryant 17 17 02 Chris Our 16 16 63 Paris Wixon 14 14 88 Scott Reeves 11 11

2020 General Tire Superspeedway Challenge Schedule* February 8 – Daytona International Speedway – Cathy Venturini, No. 25 Toyota (Michael Self) June 20 – Talladega Superspeedway – Bill Venturini, No. 15 Toyota (Drew Dollar) June 26 – Pocono Raceway – Coy Gibbs, No. 18 Toyota (Ty Gibbs) July 11 – Kentucky Speedway – General Tire 150 July 24 – Kansas Speedway – ARCA Kansas 150 TBA – Michigan International Speedway – ARCA Michigan 200 October 16 – Kansas Speedway – ARCA Kansas 150 (General Tire Superspeedway Challenge champion crowned)

*Schedule subject to change