2024 General Tire 150 (Dover)

2024 General Tire 150

Race details[1][2][3][4]
Race 4 of 20 of the 2024 ARCA Menards Series Race 2 of 8 of the 2024 ARCA Menards Series East
Date	April 26, 2024
Official name	Inaugural General Tire 150
Location	Dover Motor Speedway in Dover, Delaware
Course	Permanent racing facility 1 mi (1.6 km)
Distance	150 laps, 150 mi (240 km)
Scheduled Distance	150 laps, 150 mi (240 km)
Average speed	97.862 mph (157.494 km/h)
Pole position
Driver	William Sawalich	Joe Gibbs Racing
Time	22.248
Most laps led
Driver	William Sawalich	Joe Gibbs Racing
Laps	67
Winner
No. 28	Connor Zilisch	Pinnacle Racing Group
Television in the United States
Network	FS2
Announcers	Jamie Little, Phil Parsons, and Austin Cindric
Radio in the United States
Radio	ARCA Racing Network

The 2024 General Tire 150 was the fourth stock car race of the 2024 ARCA Menards Series season, the second race of the 2024 ARCA Menards Series East season, and the inaugural running of the event. The race was held on Friday, April 26, 2024, at Dover Motor Speedway in Dover, Delaware, a 1-mile (1.6 km) permanent asphalt oval shaped speedway. The race took the scheduled 150 laps to complete. In an action-packed race, Connor Zilisch, driving for Pinnacle Racing Group, would survive the chaos that occurred with the leaders, and dominated the final stages of the race, leading the final 42 laps to earn his first career ARCA Menards Series win, his first career ARCA Menards Series East win, and his first career win in total.^[5] Pole-sitter William Sawalich and Gio Ruggiero dominated the majority of the race, with Sawalich leading a race-high 67 laps and Ruggiero leading 41 laps. Sawalich was involved in an incident with under 50 laps to go, and was unable to continue the race, finishing 17th.^[6] Ruggiero rebounded from a late-race penalty to finish in 2nd. To fill out the podium, Carson Kvapil, driving for Pinnacle Racing Group, would finish in 3rd, respectively.

Dover Motor Speedway is an oval race track in Dover, Delaware, United States that has held at least two NASCAR races since it opened in 1969. In addition to NASCAR, the track also hosted USAC and the NTT IndyCar Series. The track features one layout, a 1 mile (1.6 km) concrete oval, with 24° banking in the turns and 9° banking on the straights. The speedway is owned and operated by Speedway Motorsports.

The track, nicknamed "The Monster Mile", was built in 1969 by Melvin Joseph of Melvin L. Joseph Construction Company, Inc., with an asphalt surface, but was replaced with concrete in 1995. Six years later in 2001, the track's capacity moved to 135,000 seats, making the track have the largest capacity of sports venue in the mid-Atlantic. In 2002, the name changed to Dover International Speedway from Dover Downs International Speedway after Dover Downs Gaming and Entertainment split, making Dover Motorsports. From 2007 to 2009, the speedway worked on an improvement project called "The Monster Makeover", which expanded facilities at the track and beautified the track. After the 2014 season, the track's capacity was reduced to 95,500 seats.

• (R) denotes rookie driver.

The first and only practice session was held on Friday, April 26, at 12:40 PM EST, and would last for 45 minutes.^[7] William Sawalich, driving for Joe Gibbs Racing, would set the fastest time in the session, with a lap of 22.411, and a speed of 160.635 mph (258.517 km/h).^[8]

Qualifying was held on Friday, April 26, at 1:40 PM EST.^[7] The qualifying system used is a multi-car, multi-lap based system. All drivers will be on track for a 20-minute timed session, and whoever sets the fastest time in that session will win the pole.^[10]

William Sawalich, driving for Joe Gibbs Racing, would score the pole for the race, with a lap of 22.248, and a speed of 161.812 mph (260.411 km/h).^[11]

Two drivers withdrew from the race: Brad Smith and Dale Shearer.

Drivers' Championship standings (ARCA Main) Pos Driver Points 2 1 Andrés Pérez de Lara 143 2 Greg Van Alst 142 (-1) 2 3 Christian Rose 130 (–13) 4 Amber Balcaen 125 (–18) 2 5 Kris Wright 118 (–25) 3 6 Lavar Scott 116 (–27) 5 7 Andy Jankowiak 105 (–38) 8 Toni Breidinger 105 (–38) 2 9 Alex Clubb 95 (–48) 7 10 Caleb Costner 94 (–49) Drivers' Championship standings (ARCA East) Pos Driver Points 1 Gio Ruggiero 90 2 2 Connor Zilisch 88 (-2) 1 3 William Sawalich 75 (–15) 4 4 Zachary Tinkle 70 (–20) 4 5 D. L. Wilson 68 (–22) 4 6 Cody Dennison 66 (–24) 5 7 Michael Maples 62 (–28) 2 8 Mike Basham 58 (–32) 5 9 Rita Goulet 52 (–38) 7 10 Bubba Pollard 41 (–49) Note: Only the first 10 positions are included for the driver standings.