2025 Music City 150


The 2025 Music City 150 was the 3rd stock car race of the 2025 ARCA Menards Series East season, and the 5th iteration of the event. The race was originally scheduled to be held on Saturday, May 3, 2025, but was postponed to Sunday, May 4, due to inclement weather. The race was held at the Nashville Fairgrounds Speedway in Nashville, Tennessee, a 0.596 mile permanent asphalt oval shaped short track. The race took the scheduled 150 laps to complete. Max Reaves, driving for Joe Gibbs Racing, would be unstoppable throughout the event, leading all but three laps to earn his second career ARCA Menards Series East win in his second start, becoming the third driver in series history to win in their first two career starts. To fill out the podium, Tyler Reif, driving for Sigma Performance Services, and Hunter Wright, driving for MAN Motorsports, would finish 2nd and 3rd, respectively.

Report

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 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

denotes rookie driver.

Practice

The first and only practice session was originally scheduled to be held on Saturday, May 3, at 2:00 PM CST, but was postponed due to constant rain showers. The session was moved to Sunday, May 4, at 1:00 PM CST, and would last for 30 minutes. Max Reaves, driving for Joe Gibbs Racing, would set the fastest time in the session, with a lap of 19.853, and a speed of.

Starting lineup

Qualifying was originally scheduled to be held on Saturday, May 3, at 4:15 PM CST, but was cancelled due to constant rain showers. The starting lineup would be determined by last season's owners points. As a result, Max Reaves, driving for Joe Gibbs Racing, will start on the pole.

Standings after the race

;Drivers' Championship standings
PosDriverPoints
1Isaac Kitzmiller117
12Tyler Reif110
13Zachary Tinkle106
14Takuma Koga99
45Max Reaves97
16Austin Vaughn90
47Nate Moeller83
68Brad Smith76
139Hunter Wright76
810Kole Raz74

  • Note: Only the first 10 positions are included for the driver standings.