We have officially reached the halfway point in the 2025 ARCA Menards Series East season as the tour heads to the quarter-mile oval at Flat Rock Speedway in Ash, Michigan, for the fourth race of the year.
Saturday’s 150-lap event will be the final standalone race for the ARCA East series, as the last four races will be conducted in conjunction with the national ARCA Menards Series.
In last season’s Dutch Boy 150, current NASCAR Xfinity Series rookie contender Connor Zilisch successfully held off fellow rookie William Sawalich after leading all of the scheduled 150 laps of challenging racing around the bullring.
Max Reaves enters competition this weekend to begin his ARCA East career by going three-for-three in the win column, which has never been accomplished in ARCA East history before.
Isaac Kitzmiller was able to extend his points lead by 11 points over Zachary Tinkle, who just surpassed Tyler Reif in points in the following race at Nashville Fairgrounds Speedway on May 4.
Among the 14-car entry field for Saturday’s event, a few notable entries are looking to make a difference under the lights at Flat Rock Speedway.
Jeff MacZink returns for his third consecutive Flat Rock Speedway appearance, driving for his own No. 65 MacZink Racing Toyota Camry. MacZink has achieved finishes of ninth in 2024 and 13th in 2024 in his two prior starts at the facility.
Jeff Smith, the older brother of veteran Brad Smith, is back in the ARCA Menards Series for the first time since 2023 in the No. 01 Brad Smith Motorsports Ford in collaboration with Fast Track Racing.
Matt Kemp makes his first ARCA East start of 2025, as he will get behind the wheel of the No. 10 Ford for Fast Track Racing. Kemp has run two ARCA headlining races thus far in the calendar year at Talladega Superspeedway (April 26) and last weekend at Kansas Speedway (May 9).
Jackson McLerran, who recently achieved his first top-10 finish in the ARCA Menards Series at Nashville Fairgrounds to start May, will return to drive the No. 95 Toyota Camry for MAN Motorsports. This car was previously driven by Hunter Wright in two ARCA East events this season.
Kitzmiller, Tinkle, Reif, Smith, Takuma Koga, Austin Vaughn, and Nate Moeller round off the notable entries running for the points.
The Dutch Boy 150 from Flat Rock Speedway will air live on Flo Racing at 7:45 pm EST, and ARCARacing.com will provide the radio broadcast of the event.
