Official highlights from the ARCA Menards Series: Menards 150 at Kansas Speedway

Let's do it one more time for the Arkham and Art series with the championship on the line. Up to the start line and Gio Ruggiero gets us underway from Kansas. The pentacle racing group teammates on the outside, Carson Brown and Laney Bice. See what kind of run Carson Brown and that 28 can get on the outside. That's the one thing about running up high. You get that momentum on the exit that carries that speed down the straightaway. He's going to get a little bit of a lead going into three, but Ruggiero on the bottom gets a good run. So Jake Bowman jumped in front of Laney Bice to grab that third spot. Carson Brown, with that momentum you were talking about, Larry, coming off of turn four. He's going to lead lap one there. It stops. You'll just follow it behind the drivers that don't have it. Oh! No way! The championship contenders tangle going around a lap car. Bowman catches the car. Annunziata slides to the apron to draw the caution. Wow! I didn't see that coming, Eric. Rear of Annunziata. Here it is. Just a bad angle, Larry. Getting in the corner. He has to chase it up the hill. Annunziata is there. They make contact. Yeah. There was nothing egregious there whatsoever. Just up the racetrack and, you know, the 70 car was just wrong place, wrong time. Working their way around the 10 of Ed Pompa was the car that they had split. It was the half spin for Bowman. Go around for Annunziata with Gavin Michelle driving by them all. That reminds me of a time in a truck race years ago when Ron Hornaday and Johnny Sauter did a perfect time both sideways spin and they both saved it. You could see the car wiggle right there just before it moved up the racetrack. And the timing of this caution with 16 laps complete, ARCA officials have informed the race teams that this will serve as the competition yellow. Look at how close that secondary contact could have been if Annunziata was further down the track. Bowman gets turned. Annunziata and Bowman get together. And he survives another one. They were battling for position again inside the top 10. And as they came past the start finish line towards turn one, almost second verse being the same as the first. Wow. Unbelievable. That's all I can say. Unbelievable. This might be a case of the last man standing. It might be. Annunziata works to the inside. Boy, he wiggled just a little bit before he made contact. But that was a fairly straight part of the racetrack. I don't know that they feel they even made the turn off into the corner just yet. Good job by Bowman here to keep fighting the car through the transition of the apron and the banking. And a good job by the rest of the field to not collect the 20 as he continued to slide through. I'd like to take a look at this again. Watch as you may see if maybe there's a wiggle as he comes back up on the racetrack. Again, he was driving fairly straight right there. Again, these are teammates. That doesn't mean they're best friends. I've talked to both of these drivers. Eric, I know you have two down in the garage area. And they're very much competitors. So could that have been a little payback, you think, from Annunziata? It's hard to tell just with that little bit of a spark from that transition back up onto the racetrack. Jake Bowman's got a pretty good race car. Oh, no! A crash right in front of him collects Bowman. Oh, my gosh. Oh, he's going to get hit again. Just nowhere to go. Just happened right in front of him. And Annunziata drives by. Unbelievable. See, Will just gets loose, runs the top of the racetrack. Just gets loose. Carson Brown goes by. Bowman makes significant contact with Will. And then watch when the 91 of Vaughn comes around. Mike Christopher Jr., the 42, does a great job getting by. And the 91 went to the high side. And unfortunately, Jake was there. Yeah, Jake Bowman, he just was a sitting duck. There was nothing he could do. It just happened so fast right in front of him. You could see he tried to move up, but it was a little too late. Here comes Annunziata slowing way down behind him in the white and orange 70. He saw that brutal second impact right out of the windshield. From that view, you could see that the 91 of Vaughn was trying to avoid Will Kimmel. That's why he turned to the right. There's the contact right there. That might have been enough to do Bowman in, but certainly the 91, as he's going to try to avoid Will Kimmel, that's why he goes to the high side of the racetrack, and Jake is there. Just about knocks the rear end housing out from under that car. And the speeds at this mile and a half track are just so fast. You're in the throttle so much. There was nothing a spotter or anything could do in that situation. Your heart breaks for Jake Bowman with the season he's had this year. Not that we care who wins one way or another, but you sure hate for it. Maybe his chance is to end that way. Unfortunate for Austin Vaughn, who, as we said, was making his ARCA Intermediate debut. That's going to come to a premature end before the halfway point. It's quick. Oh, caution is out. Second time tonight, Charles Waslowski goes for a slide. He was running 17th at the time. Truly what this is a team sport. Oh, we got a car on the wall. It's Landon S. Huffman. With 13 laps to go, Landon S. Huffman from fourth has pounded the wall on the front stretch. And Thomas Nunziata is on the pit lane. Gonna do some work on the left front here, because we pretty much had counted the sets of tires. We felt like they were out of tires, but doing some kind of work on the left front. They better remember, these are modified live pit stops, so they only have as much time as it takes the pace car to come around. Eight laps is all that remains in 2026. Brown with a lot of wheel spin to that top side. And Ruggiero is clear to the lead, but for how long? Carson's teammate Laney Bice was helping him. Once he got that car back under control, she was pushing him, trying to work his way to the outside. Now Boshel is side-by-side for third with Laney. Nunziata is going to get to the outside of Andy J. Loose off the corner. He's going to chase the 71 down to the flat. Andy tries to battle back. Six to go from Kansas. If he can hold on to that spot, that will be enough. Call by Shannon Rush to bring that car down pit road and make adjustments. Leave the tires on it, but make adjustments. Whatever adjustment they made, it's brought that 70 car to life, but Andy J in that 71 is not going away. Runs right around the bottom of the racetrack. Off of turn number four. One lap to go in the Arkham and Arts season, and we're side-by-side for the lead. Brown by half a car length was out front. Contact to one. Had to maneuver around some lap traffic there. Let's see if Brown can get this big run off, too. I think the 18 got loose there in the middle of the corner with how much ground he lost, and this has been Carson Brown's best corner down here in three and four. Now he goes to the bottom of the racetrack, protecting the bottom. Off of turn number four. He searched to make the top side work, and that's how he'll get the lead. Carson Brown wins the season finale for the Arkham and Arts series at Kansas. Let's see if Anunziata holds on to that fifth spot, and he does. And by virtue of a tiebreaker, Thomas Anunziata is the 2026 Arkham and Arts series champion.