Five drivers to watch in Friday’s ARCA Sioux Chief Fast Track 150 at Kansas Speedway

Randy Covitz
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The ARCA Menards Series will open the racing weekend at Kansas Speedway with the Sioux Chief Fast Track 150 at 5 p.m. Friday.

Jesse Love won the spring race at Kansas, leading 96 of 100 laps.

Here are five drivers to watch in Friday’s race:

Jesse Love, No. 20 Toyota.

Love, 18, has won a series-most nine races in 16 starts this season and has 14 consecutive top-five finishes. At one stretch he won four straight — Pocono, Michigan, Indianapolis and Watkins Glen — earlier this summer. He leads the ARCA championship standings by 120 points.

Frankie Muniz, No. 30 Ford

Muniz, best known for playing the title role in the hit television series “Malcom in the Middle” from 2000 to 2006, is in his first season racing in the ARCA series. Muniz, 37, is still looking for his first win, but he has nine top-10 finishes in 16 starts, including a season-best fifth at Michigan an eighth-place finish at Kansas.

Andres Perez De Lara, No. 2 Chevrolet

De Lara, a native of Mexico City, has made a splash in the series but ranks a distant second to Love in the standings. De Lara, 18, has seven top-five finishes, including a second at Springfield. He has 12 top-10 finishes in 16 starts, including a sixth at Kansas in May.

Connor Mosack, No. 18 Toyota

Mosack, a 24-year-old who didn’t take up stock-car racing until he was 18, will be doing double duty in both the ARCA and NASCAR Xfinity series races this weekend. He has six straight Top 10 finishes in the ARCA series dating to last season, including fourth at Kansas in May, second at Pocono and third at Michigan for Joe Gibbs Racing. He has made 17 Xfinity starts this season, scoring two Top 10s.

Mandy Chick, No. 74 Chevrolet

Chick, 21, of nearby DeSoto, Kansas, will make her fourth ARCA start of the season and first since finishing 12th in the May race at Kansas Speedway. Chick, an engineering major and sorority president at Rose-Hulman Institute in Indiana, recorded a season-best fifth at Daytona for the family-owned team.