TALLADEGA, Ala. — The ARCA Menards Collection takes to the ultra-high banks of Talladega Superspeedway in Saturday’s Alabama Manufactured Housing 200.
It will likely be the fourth race of the 2026 season, the 1,598th race in collection historical past and the sixty fourth ARCA Menards Collection race at Talladega since 1969.
The beginning lineup for the Alabama Manufactured Housing 200 can be decided by locking within the prime 36 groups within the present 2026 ARCA Menards Collection proprietor factors which have filed entries by the entry deadline. With no scheduled Sioux Chief PowerPEX Pole Qualifying, the Pole Award will go to the No. 18 Joe Gibbs Racing staff, which leads the proprietor’s standings.
With 41 groups entered, the ultimate 4 positions within the lineup can be decided by the quickest speeds within the ultimate group in Friday’s apply session.
All groups that aren’t locked into the beginning discipline can be grouped collectively and the quickest 4 can be added to the sphere.
• Jake Bollman (No. 20 Nitro Motorsports Toyota) leads the ARCA Menards Collection championship standings by 12 factors over runner-up Jason Kitzmiller (No. 97 A.L.L. Building / Carter CAT Chevrolet) heading into theAlabama Manufactured Housing 200.
Bollman completed second within the season opener at Daytona Worldwide Speedway however can be making his first look at Talladega; Kitzmiller has six earlier Talladega begins relationship again to 2020 and completed fifth in 2025.
Ryan Vargas (No. 91 Maples Motorsports Chevrolet) is third within the standings 18 factors out of the lead.
• Gio Ruggiero (No. 18 1st Auto Group Toyota) can be on the lookout for his third consecutive ARCA Menards Collection win. Ruggiero received the season opener at Daytona after which scored his second win at Kansas Speedway final weekend at Kansas Speedway in his solely two begins of the season. Ruggiero’s victory has propelled Joe Gibbs Racing to the highest of the ARCA Menards Collection proprietor level standings by 15 factors over the Joe Tovo-owned Nitro Motorsports No. 20 staff.
• Jack Wooden (No. 28 Pinnacle Racing Group Chevrolet) was on his method to victory when a late-race warning despatched final weekend’s race at Kansas Speedway into additional time. Wooden was nudged out of the lead into flip one after which extra contact was made down the backstretch which resulted in exhausting contact to the skin wall.
Wooden, who led a career-high 39 laps, will look to rebound from a disappointing 18th-place end; Wooden completed sixth within the season opener at Daytona.
• Daniel Dye (No. 24 Champion Container Chevrolet) will make his third begin of the season within the Alabama Manufactured Housing 200. Dye completed fourth at Daytona after which was runner-up at Kansas, his greatest collection end since 2022 at Phoenix Raceway.
Dye, who received in his ARCA Menards Collection debut at Berlin Raceway in 2021, completed third within the NASCAR Craftsman Truck Collection race at Talladega in 2024; he completed seventeenth in his solely earlier ARCA Menards Collection begin at Talladega in 2022.
• Taylor Reimer (No. 77 FRE Nicotine Pouches Chevrolet) will make her third begin of the season and second with Pinnacle Racing Group. Reimer was operating among the many prime ten when late-race points introduced her down pit street leaving her 5 laps down in thirtieth.
Reimer completed within the prime 10 in every of her first six profession ARCA Menards Collection begins with two top-five finishes, together with a career-best third on the Illinois State Fairgrounds in 2024.
• Andy Jankowiak (No. 71 Hook’d Options Chevrolet) returns to Talladega seeking to higher his fourth-place end in 2025. Jankowiak led 4 laps final 12 months, the primary laps he’s led in his ARCA Menards Collection profession.
• YouTube superstars Garrett Mitchell (No. 30 BaldEagle.com Ford), identified higher as Cleetus McFarland and his sidekick George Siciliano (No. 0 Warmth Wave Visuals Ford), referred to as Squirrel McNutt, will compete in opposition to one another for the second consecutive week however the first during which they will function drafting companions. Mitchell completed twentieth at Kansas final Saturday after shedding an oil line and making a spectacular slide by turns one and two, whereas Siciliano completed twelfth in his first ever race on a observe bigger than one mile in size.
• Twenty-one drivers have scored their first profession ARCA Menards Collection victory at Talladega Superspeedway: Jim Vandiver, Johnny Halford, Bruce Hill, Sandy Satullo, Billie Harvey, Mark Martin, Jim Vaughn, Rick Roland, Davey Allison, Tim Steele, Keith Segars, Paul Menard, Kraig Kinser, Michael Annet, Dakoda Armstrong, Brandon McReynolds, Blake Jones, Gus Dean, Drew Greenback, Jake Finch, and Lawless Alan.
There has not been a repeat winner within the final 19 ARCA Menards Collection races at Talladega. The final driver to repeat was 10-time collection champion Frank Kimmel in 2006 and once more in 2013. Earlier Talladega winners on the entry checklist embody 2016 winner Gus Dean (No. 25 CAB Installers Toyota) and 2024 winner Jake Finch (No. 15 Phoenix Toyota).
• Talladega Superspeedway is the positioning of the collection’ closest-ever end within the digital timing period. In 2018, Zane Smith defeated Joe Graf, Jr. by inches on the end line, which recorded 0.000 on the timing system, a statistical useless warmth.
• Every of the final six ARCA Menards Collection races at Talladega Superspeedway has been received from a prime 5 beginning place, and every of the final three has been received from the entrance row. Drew Greenback received from second in 2020, Corey Heim and Nick Sanchez received from fourth in 2021 and 2022, Jesse Love and Lawless Alan from second in 2023 and 2025; solely Jake Finch received from the pole in 2024.
