General Tire 200 (Sonoma)


The General Tire 200 is a 126-mile ARCA Menards Series West race held annually at Sonoma Raceway.

History

Only a year after the track first opened, the ARCA Menards Series West held their first races at the track in 1969, which were a pair of 60-lap races won by Ray Elder and Jack McCoy. The series did not return until 1978, and from there, the track became a mainstay on the West Series schedule.
From 1989 to 1997, the NASCAR Cup Series' annual race at Sonoma was also held as a combination event with the West Series. The highest-finishing West Series regular in the race would earn 1st-place points that counted towards the West Series, no matter how low they finished. After 1997, the race was solely held as a Cup Series event because West Series teams felt they were at a disadvantage against the more financed Cup teams. After the 1998 event, the race took a seven-year hiatus before returning in 2006.
In 2021, General Tire, the official tire of the ARCA Menards Series, became the title sponsor for the race.

Past winners