ARCA Menards Series West

It should be that if you have no open wheel experience, like I think maybe that should be it.

Like if you have no open, if you're a Arca West kid and you all of a sudden decide I want to go IndyCar racing, yeah, you got to meet some requirements and you got to go through some ROP.

But if you've been doing Indy next for four years

and you want to buy your way in, so be it.

to drive for.

I think it's also interesting that off of the success of ARCA West, now she's going back again into the truck series.

Because she's trying to make her name for herself.

She's already

making a name for herself with the ARCA West.

But she hasn't done anything.

In the last time she was with Trucks, now she's out.

I would be willing to say if she could just be a consistent top five or a top

And now we get ready to pack up and head west for the final time in 2026.

Phoenix Raceway, the Valley of the Sun, on the radar for NASCAR's top three series and the ARCA Menards Series West.

Before we set sail into Phoenix, want to button up Charlotte, and we're gonna focus in on the EcoSave 200 for the NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series.

You heard it on the NASCAR Racing Network, and you heard the name Bayley Currey, which is not a new name to the NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series.

Saturday, triple event coverage coming your way.

NASCAR Cup Series practice and qualifying, MRN airtime at 4:30 Eastern, followed by the NASCAR O'Reilly Auto Parts Series Timberlin Pro 200 at 7:00 Eastern.

That will be followed by the ARCA Menards Series West Desert Diamond Casino West Valley 100.

Be sure to catch that.

But while NHRA doesn't race in Las Vegas for a few more weeks, NASCAR returned to Vegas this past weekend, so we'll move on to them.

ARCA West raced Friday night at the Las Vegas Motor Speedway Bullring, the paved short track next to the big mile and a half track, for the inaugural Kyle Busch Classic, and it certainly lived up to his name as Taylor Mayhew scored his first career ARCA West victory on a last lap pass, and he didn't even get to qualify in the car either.

After a broken clutch, he made a start from the rear of the field in just his fourth ARCA West start, but he got the job done.

And crazy enough, it's not only the seventh different ARCA West winner in the last seven races, but the last four races have all seen a last lap pass for the win as well.

So cool to see there.

It seems like in ARCA, it's either, like, a last lap pass or somebody wins from the pole and leads every lap.

I don't know what it is, whether it's ARCA West, ARCA East, or Maine ARCA, I don't know.

Um, in O'Reilly's it was the Corey Day Show as despite a late charge from Carson Quoppell, Day was able to hold him off and literally banged the wall a few times, but kept the car straight, um, to score the victory.

Is Palm Beach or bust? The Golden Life, new series, Tuesday at 10, only on EVE.

NASCAR Coast to Coast coming at you as we flip the calendar to the month of October here on this Thursday, October the 1st.

We are talking championships as the Arkham and Art Series Premier Series wrapped up its 2026 campaign.

We'll have their newly crowned champion, their 43rd driver to win a title, Thomas Annunziata, joining us right here in studio coming up in just a minute.

Plus, another co-op will win at the Valley Star Credit Union 300.

My name is Chris Wilner, MRN Pit Reporter here in the Concord, North Carolina studios.

And it is, of course, championship time.

We are celebrating the Arkham Menard Series conclusion of 2026 and a newly crowned champion, their 43rd season champion joining us now in studio.

Then we have the NASCAR Modified Tour.

And then next level up is the ARCA, ARCA West, ARCA East.

So in those rulebooks, they still have probation as something that they can lean on.

We did take it out in the Cup, O'Reilly, and Truck Series rulebooks.