The 2024 Music City 150 was the 3rd stock car race of the 2024 ARCA Menards Series East season, and the 4th iteration of the event. The race was held on Saturday, May 11, 2024, at the Nashville Fairgrounds Speedway in Nashville, Tennessee, a 0.596 mile (0.959 km) permanent asphalt oval shaped short track. The race took the scheduled 150 laps to complete. William Sawalich, driving for Joe Gibbs Racing, would put on a blistering performance, leading all but five laps in the race to earn his fifth career ARCA Menards Series East win, and his first of the season. Pole-sitter Gio Ruggiero led the first four laps of the race, before he spun and hit the wall on lap 6. He continued to race until lap 49, where he pulled into the pits and retired from the race, officially credited with a 14th-place finish. To fill out the podium, Isabella Robusto, driving for Venturini Motorsports, and Connor Zilisch, driving for Pinnacle Racing Group, would finish 2nd and 3rd, respectively.
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Background
Nashville Fairgrounds Speedway is a motorsport racetrack located at the Nashville Fairgrounds near downtown Nashville, Tennessee. The track is the second-oldest continually operating track in the United States. The track held NASCAR Grand National/Winston Cup (now NASCAR Cup Series) races from 1958 to 1984.
The speedway is currently an 18 degree banked paved oval. The track is long. Inside the larger oval is a paved oval.
The track was converted to a paved oval in 1957, when it began to be a NASCAR series track. The speedway was lengthened between the 1969 and 1970 seasons. The corners were cut down from 35 degrees to their present 18 degrees in 1972. The track was repaved between the 1995 and 1996 seasons.
Entry list (R) denotes rookie driver.
#DriverTeamMakeSponsor0Nate MoellerWayne Peterson RacingFordPeterson Motorsports06Cody Dennison (R)Wayne Peterson RacingToyotaTimcast07Tyler ScofieldScofield MotorsportsChevroletJXT Transportation10Jayson AlexanderFast Track RacingToyotaSelwyn Pub / Constant Contact11Zachary TinkleFast Track RacingToyotaRacing for Rescues12Presley SorahFast Track RacingToyotaTatanka Sauce / Layin Coin Podcast18William SawalichJoe Gibbs RacingToyotaStarkey / SoundGear20Gio Ruggiero (R)Venturini MotorsportsToyotaJBL28Connor Zilisch (R)Pinnacle Racing GroupChevroletChevrolet / Silver Hare Development31Rita GouletRise MotorsportsChevroletNationalPolice.org39D. L. WilsonCW MotorsportsToyotaHeart O' Texas Speedway / ETR42Tanner ReifCook Racing TechnologiesChevroletVegas Fastener Manufacturing48Brad SmithBrad Smith MotorsportsFordCopraya.com55Isabella RobustoVenturini MotorsportsToyotaYahoo!93Caleb CostnerCW MotorsportsChevroletThin Blue Wine Cellars95Hunter WrightMAN MotorsportsToyotaCedar City RV96Andrew PattersonMAN MotorsportsToyotaWinsupply / SCS Gearbox99Michael Maples (R)Fast Track RacingChevroletDon Ray Petroleum LLCOfficial entry list
Practice The first and only practice session was held on Saturday, May 11, at 2:00 PM CST, and lasted for 60 minutes. William Sawalich, driving for Joe Gibbs Racing, would set the fastest time in the session, with a lap of 19.760, and a speed of . Pos.#DriverTeamMakeTimeSpeed118William SawalichVenturini MotorsportsToyota19.760108.583228Connor Zilisch (R)Pinnacle Racing GroupChevrolet19.768108.539320Gio Ruggiero (R)Venturini MotorsportsToyota19.955107.522Full practice results
Qualifying Qualifying was held on Saturday, May 11, at 4:00 PM CST. The qualifying system used is a single-car, two-lap based system. All drivers will be on track by themselves and will have two laps to post a qualifying time. The driver who sets the fastest time in qualifying will win the pole.
Gio Ruggiero, driving for Venturini Motorsports, would score the pole for the race, with a lap of 19.420, and a speed of .
Qualifying results Pos.#DriverTeamMakeTimeSpeed120Gio Ruggiero (R)Venturini MotorsportsToyota19.420110.484218William SawalichJoe Gibbs RacingToyota19.470110.200355Isabella RobustoVenturini MotorsportsToyota19.556109.716428Connor Zilisch (R)Pinnacle Racing GroupChevrolet19.764108.561511Zachary TinkleFast Track RacingToyota19.913107.749696Andrew PattersonMAN Motorsports Toyota19.925107.684707Tyler ScofieldScofield MotorsportsChevrolet19.952107.538895Hunter WrightMAN MotorsportsToyota20.078106.863993Caleb CostnerCW MotorsportsChevrolet20.850102.9061039D. L. WilsonCW MotorsportsToyota20.859102.8621199Michael Maples (R)Fast Track RacingChevrolet20.972102.3081210Jayson AlexanderFast Track RacingToyota21.52799.6701306Cody Dennison (R)Wayne Peterson RacingToyota21.62599.2181412Presley SorahFast Track RacingToyota21.94297.7851531Rita GouletRise MotorsportsChevrolet22.35595.9791648Brad SmithBrad Smith MotorsportsFord22.96693.425170Nate MoellerWayne Peterson RacingFord23.20092.4831842Tanner ReifCook Racing TechnologiesChevrolet – –Official qualifying results
Race results FinSt#DriverTeamMakeLapsLedStatusPts1218William SawalichJoe Gibbs RacingToyota150145Running482355Isabella RobustoVenturini MotorsportsToyota1501Running433428Connor Zilisch (R)Pinnacle Racing GroupChevrolet1500Running414511Zachary TinkleFast Track RacingToyota1490Running405696Andrew PattersonMAN MotorsportsToyota1490Running396707Tyler ScofieldScofield MotorsportsChevrolet1490Running387993Caleb CostnerCW MotorsportsChevrolet1480Running3781210Jayson AlexanderFast Track RacingToyota1470Running369895Hunter WrightMAN MotorsportsToyota1470Running35101039D. L. WilsonCW MotorsportsToyota1460Running34111306Cody Dennison (R)Wayne Peterson RacingToyota1460Running33121199Michael Maples (R)Fast Track RacingChevrolet1460Running32131531Rita GouletRise MotorsportsChevrolet1350Running3114120Gio Ruggiero (R)Venturini MotorsportsToyota494Accident32151842Tanner ReifCook Racing TechnologiesChevrolet260Accident29161648Brad SmithBrad Smith MotorsportsFord230Handling2817170Nate MoellerWayne Peterson RacingFord230Steering27181412Presley SorahFast Track RacingToyota200Brakes26Official race results
Standings after the race
Drivers' Championship standings Pos Driver Points 1 1 Connor Zilisch 129 1 2 William Sawalich 125 (-4) 2 3 Gio Ruggiero 122 (–7) 4 Zachary Tinkle 110 (–19) 5 D. L. Wilson 102 (–27) 6 Cody Dennison 99 (–30) 7 Michael Maples 94 (–35) 1 8 Rita Goulet 83 (–46) 4 9 Hunter Wright 74 (–55) 9 10 Caleb Costner 72 (–57)
Note: Only the first 10 positions are included for the driver standings.
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