Andy Jankowiak prepares for Chicagoland Speedway – KLAS Motorsports Photo
* After a seven-year absence, the ARCA Menards Series will return to
Chicagoland Speedway for Friday’s Ashley Furniture 150, the eleventh
race of 20 scheduled for the series in 2026. It will be the 20th ARCA
Menards Series race at Chicagoland Speedway.
* Chicagoland Speedway hosted one ARCA Menards Series race per season
from the track’s inaugural season in 2001 through 2019. Previous
winners include Ed Berrier (2001), Chad Blount (2002), Frank Kimmel
(2003), Kyle Krisiloff (2004), Dawayne Bryan (2005), Steve Wallace
(2006), Michael McDowell (2007), Scott Lagasse, Jr. (2008), Justin
Lofton (2009), Patrick Sheltra (2010), Ty Dillon (2011), Kevin Swindell
(2012), Corey LaJoie (2013), Mason Mitchell (2014), Ryan Reed (2015),
Chase Briscoe (2016), Christopher Bell (2017), Michael Self (2018) and
Ty Majeski (2019).
* Jake Bollman (No. 20 Nitro Motorsports Toyota) leads the ARCA Menards
Series championship standings by 21 points over runner-up Thomas
Annunziata (No. 70 JBL Toyota). Bollman tied his career-best finish,
second, last Saturday night at Elko Speedway while Annunziata has earned
the last two Sioux Chief PowerPEX Pole Awards in qualifying at Berlin
Raceway and Elko.
* Two-time ARCA Menards East champion William Sawalich (No. 18
SoundGear Toyota) returns to the ARCA Menards Series for the first time
since he finished fourth at Charlotte Motor Speedway in May, 2025. His
Joe Gibbs Racing team has won six of the first ten races of the 2026
season, including the last two with Max Reaves at Berlin and Elko.
* Isabella Robusto (No. 55 Yahoo! Toyota) set the ARCA Menards Series
all-time record for most top-five finishes by a female driver, 13, with
her fifth-place finish at Berlin Raceway two weeks ago. She sits third
in the ARCA Menards Series championship standings, 54 points out of the
lead with ten races remaining in the season.
* Gavan Boschele (No. 25 Toyota Racing Toyota) returns to the ARCA
Menards Series for the first time since his runner-up finish at Pocono
Raceway three weeks ago. Boschele has five career series starts and has
four top-five finishes.
* Connor Mosack (No. 28 Friends of Jacklyn Chevrolet) will make his
second start of the season in the Pinnacle Racing Group entry. Mosack, a
two-time ARCA Menards Series winner at Chicagoland Speedway’s sister
track Kansas Speedway in 2023 and 2024, finished fourth in his only
previous start this season at Michigan International Speedway.
* Landon S. Huffman (No. 9 A.L.L. Construction / Carter CAT Chevrolet)
returns to the CR7 Motorsports team after making his ARCA Menards Series
debut last week at Elko Speedway with Pinnacle Racing Group. Huffman,
the son of PRG team manager Shane Huffman, led 130 laps before a
mechanical issue brought him to the pits for repairs. He battled for the
win in his ARCA Menards East debut at Hickory Motor Speedway before
contact led to a late-race spin and he finished second in his most
recent East start at Nashville Fairgrounds Speedway.
* Lanie Buice (No. 77 Sunoco Chevrolet) started from the Sioux Chief
PowerPEX Pole in her most recent start at Pocono and she matched her
career-best finish in fifth. Buice has finished fifth in all three ARCA
Menards Series starts she’s made so far in 2026.
* Talladega Superspeedway winner Andy Jankowiak (No. 71 Phillips 66
Lubricants / Whelen Chevrolet) makes his first start in a month.
Jankowiak looks to get his luck turned back around after being swept
into accidents in his most recent starts at Toledo Speedway and Michigan
International Speedway.
* Two Illinois drivers will compete at Chicagoland Speedway: Ottawa
native Tim Richmond (No. 27 Ottawa Illinois The Middle of Everywhere
Toyota) and Alex Clubb (No. 03 Premier Asphalt Ford). Richmond started
12th and finished 12th in the last ARCA Menards Series race at
Chicagoland Speedway in 2019; Clubb will be making his first series
start at the track. Ottawa is about an hour west of Joliet, while Morris
is 15 minutes closer.
* The race will be run under the Modified Live pit procedure with a
scheduled caution at or around lap 50.
* Ricky Stenhouse holds the ARCA Menards Series track qualifying record
at Chicagoland Speedway, set in 2008, at 29.995 seconds/180.030 miles
per hour.
* Kevin Swindell holds the ARCA Menards Series track race record at
Chicagoland Speedway, set in 2012, at 1 hour, 3 minutes, 47 seconds /
141.103 miles per hour.
* Should the race be extended into overtime, there will be unlimited
attempts at a two-lap “green-white-checkered” finish. If the yellow
flag is displayed after the white flag, there will be unlimited attempts
at a one-lap “green and white together” finish.
* The Ashley Furniture 150 will be televised live on FS1 and broadcast
live on select affiliates of the MRN Radio Network nationwide. Live
timing & scoring data and live race audio is available at
ARCARacing.com; follow @ARCA_Racing on X (formerly Twitter) for
up-to-the-minute updates.